New Quality Assurance Coordinator Joins Health & Safety Program
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| Gene demonstrates how to dislodge an object from a choking person, in this case a rubber meatball from "Choking Charlie". |
CONCORD - August 21, 2006 - Gene Tappen is a familiar face at the Chapter, especially in the classrooms teaching CRP, First Aid or AED (automated external defibrillator) classes. Now he has a new role as the Quality Assurance Coordinator for the Health and Safety training program.
Fourteen years ago when Gene was a high school teacher in New York, he trained to be an EMT (emergency medical technician) and joined an ambulance corps. Two colleagues on the corps were involved with the American Red Cross and convinced Gene to join them. Soon he was taking the first of many Red Cross courses: all the courses offered by the Health and Safety program as well as Disaster Instructor Specialty Training (DIST), Instructor Trainer for Health and Safety and ERV (emergency response vehicle) operator. He became a Red Cross course instructor, and in that first summer he was teaching every evening; soon he was also teaching health and safety classes in the workplace.
Last year, Gene moved to New Hampshire and became an instructor for the Concord Area Chapter. Now as the new Quality Assurance Coordinator, Gene will be working with the Health and Safety program director and course instructors to coordinate the training programs and maintain high quality of instruction.
"The Red Cross courses are important," said Gene, "because we all need to know what to do in those minutes before the ambulance arrives on the scene."
Health and Safety courses are an important part of the Chapter's mission. Last month alone, there were 840 enrollees in courses through the Concord chapter office and the Belmont Branch office. For information on the variety of courses and the schedules, vist our Classes page.
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