CCCSIG | Health & Safety | Instructor-Led Trainings

Caregivers in special education encounter greater physical demands. This training concentrates on effective ergonomics to ensure daily physical and physiological activities don’t exceed caregiver abilities. Needs of special education, recognizing excessive demands, correct transfer methods, prevention and protection are also covered.

Back Safety for Landscape, Maintenance and Custodial Workers

Participants will learn the basic steps to follow in order to avoid back injuries, which include proper body mechanics, lifting, and pushing.

Safety Techniques for Tying Down Wheelchairs for Transportation Staff

Participants will learn the various types of securement systems, types of wheelchairs, demonstrations of tie-down techniques, and how to protect their backs while doing so.

Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention:

Slips, trips and falls is the #1 incident type among all occupational groups in Contra Costa County, especially teachers. Participants will learn how to prevent painful and costly slip, trip, fall injuries, as well as how to identify hazards (wet surfaces, stairs and ladders, housekeeping, etc.)

Safe Work Practices Training:

Safety Orientation for Schools (all employees)

Participants will learn about back safety and ergonomics, Class A, B, C & D fires, fire extinguishers, hazard communication, slips, trips and falls, electrical safety and housekeeping.

Safe Work Practices Training for Teachers

Participants learn about the top five incident types occurring among teachers countywide and their associated costs, how these incident types typically happen and tips on how these incident types can be prevented. Customizable to any occupational group.

Recognizing Hazards in the Workplace for Food Service Workers

During this 45-minute training, workers will be asked to share common physical challenges and hazards they face when working. As a group we will analyze these challenges through hazard mapping and true-to-life scenarios. The connection between safety and fitness has been well-documented by the Safety Industry. This training may be extended to include a short core strengthening exercise class (15-30 minutes). The additional exercise portion is limited to groups of 20 or less.

Nutrition:

Reading the Food Label

This training introduces participants to the food label, shows them how to identify the key components found on a food label, and provides them with the opportunity to analyze a variety of food products using the information displayed on the product’s label.

Be Wise About Portion Size:

This workshop provides participants with the opportunity to determine their individual calorie needs and respective recommended number of food servings, identifies proper serving sizes for different foods, and provides tips on down-sizing portions while eating out and at home.

The Lowdown on Fats and Oils:

This workshop defines the different types of dietary fats and their effect on health, provides current recommendations for intake, discusses tips when cooking with fats and oils, and engages participants in an interactive comparison of different types of fats and oils.

Eating Well While Eating Out:

This workshop allows participants to practice menu reading and provides pointers that can help participants make wiser choices when eating out. Your body will thank you later!

General Wellness:

Wellness: A Question of Balance

Optimal health is defined as a balance of physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. This workshop is based on The Wellness Wheel Model which was developed by a Canadian teacher, who was awarded a Hilroy Fellowship for this innovative experiment in health education in 1993. Using the Wellness Wheel Model as the central theme, this workshop increases awareness of one’s current wellness status, including both strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it promotes a focus on self-responsibility and prevention and emphasizes the importance of “before-the fact” interventions.

Protecting Your Brain for the Long Haul

Participants will learn the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease, how Alzheimer's disease develops and its risk factors. As we age, the brain experiences a long, slow gradual decline. The speed at which we think slows by a millisecond for every year we live. During this training session, we'll learn how to minimize cognitive losses by exercising in a specific way, eating foods that are rich in antioxidants and Omega 3 fatty acids and challenging the brain by staying engaged and socially active.

24/7: Working Towards a Healthier You

Through the use of games, video, and visuals, this workshop addresses chronic disease prevention, including the importance of health screenings, and the role society plays in chronic disease development.

Fitness:

Fitting in Fitness:

In this lively workshop, employees are encouraged to make regular physical activity a priority in their lives, realize the many benefits of physical activity in terms of healthy aging, identify their own barriers to becoming more active. Fitness ideas and resources, such as health club discount information, is also shared.

Fitness Fun on the Foam Roller

Foam roller exercises offer a unique way to promote balance and stability, core strength, good posture, flexibility, proper alignment, relaxation and massage therapy, all “rolled” into one. Participants will be able to recall and perform various foam roller exercises on their own. By the end of the class, they will feel warmed up, worked out, loosened up, relaxed and massaged. Note: Participants will be asked to sit down and eventually lie down on the foam roller (it's helpful for participants to realize this in advance; they must be somewhat agile to be able to do this).

Choose to Move Series: A four part series of 1-hr workshops. One or more of the following can be provided in any sequence:

Choose to Move Part 1: Aerobic Exercise

Participants explore the definition of and types of aerobic exercise, practice how and why to monitor their heart rate during aerobic exercise and participate in a mini-aerobics class with music.

Choose to Move Part 2: Resistance Training

Participants learn the definition, benefits, types and importance of resistance (strength) training and participate in a mini-resistance training class experimenting with different tools that may be used to make their workouts more efficient (resistance tubes, therabands, free weights).

Choose to Move Part 3: Flexibility

Participants learn the definition, benefits, types and importance of flexibility and participate in several different exercise formats that incorporate stretching (static stretching, yoga, Pilates).

Choose to Move Part 4: Balance & Stability:

Participants learn the definition, benefits, types and importance of dynamic and static balance, why balance deteriorates with age and how to prevent it. 30-min of class is spent practicing balance exercises.

Stress Management:

Work Life Balance: Are you Juggling or Struggling?

This day and age, there is a lot on our plate at any one given time. Employees need to balance the demands of work, family, friends, personal interests, community activities and, of course, self. Often the burden becomes too great, leading to job burnout and overall life stress. This training offers a framework for understanding why work-life balance is so critical for everyone, and most importantly to you. It also offers practical, hands-on strategies for how to pull this off when the demands on your time are constant and insatiable. Participants will learn how to assess life priorities; determine activities that could be eliminated, p ractical time management techniques, how to use assertive communication & good listening skills and s trategies for developing/keeping a positive outlook on life.

Resiliency in Action

When it seems that “the job” is what an unsatisfying life is all about, chances are it's not about the job; it's about our personal abilities to cope, thrive, and own up to our responsibilities. No matter the economic conditions or other high stress situations affecting us, our role is to take care of our health. Resiliency is generally defined as strength in the midst of change and stressful life events; the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity. This training provides participants with the opportunity to assess their individual qualities that facilitate resiliency and to determine how these qualities can best be applied to current life problems and stressors.

Assess Your Stress

Participants will identify work-related stressors, through completion of a work stressor questionnaire, and discuss strategies to manage these stressors. Additionally, participants will have an opportunity to develop a planning process for managing their work-related stress.

Stress Busters!

This workshop addresses the importance of effective coping skills and relaxation techniques and introduces these skills and techniques. Additionally, participants will practice two relaxation techniques—diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation—both designed to return the body back to a sense of physiological homeostasis.

Preventing & Recognizing Burnout

Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It can occur when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose interest and motivation. Burnout reduces your productivity and saps your energy, leaving you feeling increasingly hopeless, powerless, cynical, and resentful. The effects of burnout can eventually threaten your job, your relationships, and your health. Because burnout doesn’t happen overnight — and it’s difficult to fight once you’re in the middle of it — it’s important to recognize the early signs of burnout and ward it off. In this workshop, learn tips to prevent burnout so that you manage your stress, and your stress doesn’t end up managing you!

Cheers Not Tears: Handling Holiday Stress

Do you find that rather than feeling jolly and care-free, the holiday season leaves you feeling stressed and overwhelmed? For many, the holidays bring these unwelcome guests, and it’s no wonder. In an effort to pull off a Hallmark holiday, you may find yourself facing an overwhelming array of demands—work, parties, shopping, baking, cleaning, caring for elderly parents or kids on school break, and scores of other chores. Find out why this phenomenon has become all too common, and learn how you can eliminate the stress and enjoy the holidays as they were meant to be enjoyed!

Communication:

NEW! Taking the War Out of Our Words

This training will help participants to communicate better with each other and their supervisors. They will learn how to ask the right questions, which can often lead to a better understanding of the message; how to make clear position statements, which can convey more meaning to the information being communicated and how to set limits and clearly define boundaries which can often prevent conflict later. To schedule, contact Susan Patterson at spatterson@cccsig.org .

(CPI) Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training Program (for Instructional Assistants, Campus Supervisors and Administrators):

Participants learn how to identify behaviors that could lead to a crisis, how to most effectively respond to each behavior to prevent the situation from escalating, how to use verbal and nonverbal techniques to defuse hostile behavior and resolve a crisis before it becomes violent. Instructor for this course is certified through the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI).

Supervisor Training:

Accident Investigation Training:

Participants will learn of their health and safety-related roles and responsibilities as supervisors, the importance of following up with an employee who has reported an incident and how to complete and locate the Employee Accident Investigation Form.

Job Safety Analysis:

Participants will learn how to prepare a job safety analysis (JSA) including: how to prepare for the JSA, identifying job steps and self inspection.

Building a Supportive Health & Safety Culture in Schools (for administrators):

This training was created for district mid and upper-level managers. Participants learn and discuss the many ways that administrators can help build and maintain a health and safety culture in their school districts.

Cal OSHA Compliance Training Series:

Injury and Illness Prevention Program Training

This 1-hr training consists of a thirty minute review of specific District’s Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP) followed by a 30-min group activity. The objectives of this training are to introduce the IIPP, review all eight elements of the IIPP, supply a copy of the IIPP to all the participants, encourage and discuss employee feedback on safety concerns they might have and work as a group to improve three safety concerns.

Hazardous Communication for Schools

Participants will learn the training requirements of OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard, material safety data sheets (MSDS), how to identify potential hazards, warning labels, and storage and disposal methods.

Personal Protective Equipment

Participants will learn about the various forms of PPE and how they can be used to protect different parts of the body. Eye and face; hand and foot; and head and hearing protection covered, along with basic PPE rules.

Bloodborne Pathogens

Participants will learn about HBV, HCV and HIV; Exposure Control Plans; reducing exposure and transmission; work practice and engineering controls; PPE; and housekeeping. Customized for general school employee audience, custodians, food service and transportation employees.

Asbestos Awareness

Participants will learn about the three forms of asbestos, adverse health effects, where asbestos can be found, hazard communication, personal protection and housekeeping requirements.

Lockout/Tagout for Schools

This training covers trainings mandated by OSHA 1910.147 and demonstrates how to keep hazardous materials in your school under tight control. Also covered: vital lockout/tagout procedures, graphic demonstrations of hazards of uncontrolled energy, explanation of how and why to lockout.

Heat Illness for Grounds Employees:

Participants will learn how to prevent and treat heat disorders. Also covered: sunburn, acclimatization, heat rash, exhaustion and stroke; fluid intake and eating habits; clothing.

Cal OSHA Mandated Trainings for Schools (pdf).

Fork Lift Operator Safety:

Participants will learn how to reduce the risk of injury or accident when operating fork lifts by exploring the current regulations, studying the components of the lift truck and how to conduct a pre-shift inspection, learning the techniques and strategies for safely operating a lift truck and have an opportunity to practice driving the lift truck to prove their competence as operators.

New Employee Orientations:

This workshop familiarizes new employees with district-specific environmental health and safety practices and policies in the following areas:

Bloodborne Pathogens;
Hazard Communications (chemical safety);
Slips/Trips/Falls, which is the #1 incident that leads to injury in Contra Costa County school districts;
Back Safety, which is the #1 injury type; and Ergonomics.

Ergonomics:

Ergonomics in a Computer-Based World

By the end of this ergonomics presentation participants will be able to define ergonomics and its benefits, identify parts of the body most likely to be injured an office environment, identify work activities that can lead to an injury, list examples of ergonomic principles that reduce risk of injury, how to recognize and report signs and symptoms of injury early, and self-care techniques that will prevent ergonomic-related injuries.

"Thank you so much for providing our drivers with information and ideas about nutrition and exercise. It really hits home when you actually provide them with visuals."

Terri Steinberg, Transportation Supervisor, LUHSD

Training Flyers:

"Yesterday's CCCSIG training was great! CCCSIG gave a wonderful presentation on back safety, stress and then on the baseball walking program. Nearly all signed up... thank you!"

Thomas Jamison, Director/Maintenance & Operations, SRVUSD