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Workplace Vaccine & Test Status Tracking

Track employee vaccination status and monitor COVID tests through the new HSI VaxSAFE vaccination management solution. VaxSAFE simplifies COVID-19 testing and vaccination tracking to comply with workplace health and safety obligations and regulatory mandates. It allows staff to securely upload proof of vaccination, and testing status. Smart automated workflows remove manual tasks, increasing process efficiency and productivity.

Features include:

• Testing Management
• Vaccination Management
• Migrating Existing Data
• Cloud-enabled
• Workflows
• Secure Employee Record
• Risk & Compliance
• Automations
• Reporting

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Product Updates & News

The latest OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard

OSHA has shared a news release on the emergency temporary standard regarding private companies with 100 or more employees requiring proof of vaccine or weekly COVID-19 testing.

Under this standard, covered employers must develop, implement and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt a policy requiring employees to choose to either be vaccinated or undergo regular COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at work.

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New Course: Psychological Safety

Do you feel comfortable asking your coworkers for help, or disagreeing with your boss? What happens when someone makes a mistake? How often do people give and receive feedback? Each of these questions is related to your sense of psychological safety at work.

Psychological safety is the belief that you won’t be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, or concerns. In this program, we’ll talk about how organizations can adopt and cultivate this concept. We’ll discuss why it’s important and how lacking psychological safety can leave a negative impact on you as an employee.

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ASHI, EMS Safety and MEDIC First Aid have come together as HSI

HSI is excited to announce that three of our brands, American Safety and Health Institute (ASHI), EMS Safety, and MEDIC First Aid, are being transitioned into one, unified brand—HSI.

Bringing the three brands into one will allow us to give you even better CPR and first aid training programs. This will improve our Instructor and Training Center procedures and tools which translate into efficiencies for your certification training needs.

ASHI and MEDIC will continue to provide the same high-quality, cost-effective, and flexible CPR, AED, and first aid training programs under the HSI brand. They will also continue to allow instructors to combine their own skills with a range of certified resources, and provide complete training programs for instructors with or without medical experience.

This is just one more area where HSI can help provide a more complete suite of training and software solutions under one umbrella!

AVERT Active Shooter Response and Bleeding Control Training

With AVERT – Active Violence Emergency Response Training - you'll learn how to recognize the signs of danger, react appropriately, and make rapid survival decisions. AVERT goes beyond active shooter response training by also teaching how to control life-threatening bleeding. The HSI AVERT training gives you the tools to react in an emergency.

Learning objectives

• Recognize warning signs using situational awareness
• Decide whether to Escape, Evade or Attack
• Apply critical bleeding control techniques
• Respond quickly and confidently in an emergency
• Develop an Emergency Action Plan (EAP)

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Resources

Free Download: 7 Ways Off-the-Shelf Training Content Brings Value

A definitive guide on how off-the-shelf video content does wonders for your training program. Learn about:

• How off-the-shelf content is an efficient use of resources and is quickly deployed
• Can increase your bandwidth for company-specific training content
• How you can incorporate off-the-shelf content into your learning organization

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5 Steps to Implementing Safety Training

A lot of companies want to get it right. But it isn’t easy. Despite good intentions to comply with Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) training requirements, companies find themselves struggling with several challenges.

This paper outlines the five critical steps to identifying standards and implementing effective employee training. Go beyond compliance with requirements and reporting; improve the overall safety of your workplace.

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