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If you’re responsible for notifying employees every time an important deadline approaches, you know how difficult that task can be. With TargetSolutions’ records and information management system, the process is simplified with alerts that notify administrators, supervisors and users about important deadlines before they expire.

This feature for tracking dates can be found inside TargetSolutions’ one-of-a-kind Manage Credentials application. Alert notifications can be set up to inform key stakeholders of expiring credentials. This reminds the user about the deadline for completing the assignment on time. Alerts also provide platform managers an update that one of their users is approaching a deadline.

It is important to note that after all requirements have been completed within a credential, alerts will no longer be generated for that user. However, a recently added option allows a one-time notification to be delivered after a user has completed all requirements for a credential. “Requirements are completed” must be selected under “When to Alert” to receive this notice.

TargetSolutions’ records and information management system features unique alert functionality to keep users and platform managers on top of deadlines.

According to the U.S. Fire Administration, more than 3,400 Americans die each year in fires and approximately 17,500 are injured. That’s why TargetSolutions’ Fire Prevention Safety course is critical in educating employees about the dangers and reducing risk at your organization’s workplace.

This engaging online safety training course features 11 learning modules and a 10-question exam. If you have any questions about TargetSolutions’ online safety training courses, please contact us today at (800) 840-8048.

Updated May 2016

There are numerous reasons why TargetSolutions is so valuable. Hundreds of online training courses, including 160 hours of EMS continuing education, a best-in-class LMS for delivering training, and a huge repository of shared content in Community Resources all help make TargetSolutions the leading provider of computer-based training.

But what truly distinguishes the online training system, is its unique, one-of-a-kind recordkeeping tools consisting of ready-made packages for tracking employee training and operational records. ISO Compliance, EMS Recertification and Daily Training Activities are some of the most popular pre-made Platform Solutions.

With that in mind, TargetSolutions is continually working to create new solutions that will make training management more efficient. TargetSolutions has built and uploaded dozens of activities for organizations to schedule, deliver and track with Activities Builder. These activities can be customized, or assigned completely as-is to personnel with the Import Example Activities link inside Activities Builder.

Here is an overview by industry of the newly released activities:

GENERAL INDUSTRY

Accident – Incident Report Form: A ready-made incident reporting form for general liability.

Back Safety Risk Assessment: This assessment is designed to determine the risk of back injury within a department or organization.

Cell Phone Laws Updated: Activity to track changes in cell phone laws.

Confined Space Entry Training: Tracking form for a tailgate meeting on Confined Space Entry.

DPR Basic 1 Hour Course – HSA Integrated Pest Management: Organizations in California can meet the pesticide training requirement by delivering a pre-built custom activity, which features access to Sacramento State University’s training course.

Driver’s License Tracking: A ready-made form for tracking driver’s license information, as well as a scanned copy.

Driving Standards: Review our Organization’s Driving Policy.

Ergonomics Survey: This activity provides personnel with the opportunity to communicate their computer work and related comfort and productivity issues, which are components of ergonomics.

Fitness Survey: This activity provides personnel with an opportunity to review an organization’s fitness program.

General Office Risk Assessment: This assessment is designed to evaluate the risk in general office space.

Haz Com Risk Assessment: Assessment to determine the risk to employees associated with exposure to hazardous chemicals and compliance with DOL guidelines per OSHA 3111.

Inspection of Administrative Area: Inspection form to document inspections in large office suites, areas with multiple cubicles, copy rooms, coffee rooms, and other common work areas.

Makeup Training for Weekly Staff Safety Meeting: This activity can be assigned to an employee who has missed a weekly staff safety meeting.

New Hire Onboarding Solution: Example of a policy compilation for a newly-hired employee.

Tailgate Template: A template for tracking curriculum covered during tailgate meetings.

Playground Inspection: Inspection checklist for a typical playground that we are all familiar with in parks, schools and other public use playgrounds.

Portable Fire Extinguisher Inspection: Checklist for performing monthly fire extinguisher inspections.

Sexual Harassment Policy: An activity to assign and have personnel review an organization’s Sexual Harassment Policy, including a quick quiz.

Swine Flu Training: Review Swine Flu Training Presentation.

Tailgate Template: A template for tracking tailgate meetings and curriculum covered.

Vehicle Pre-Trip Inspection: Inspection report to be filled out prior to operating a passenger car, van, or pick-up truck.

Weekly Staff Safety Meeting: A pre-built form for tracking attendance and topics covered during weekly staff safety meetings.

Welcome Orientation for New Hires: Tracking form for a new hire orientation.

Wellness – The Benefits of Breakfast (Week 1): An activity for an employee to review covering the benefits of a healthy breakfast.

Wellness – All About Whole Grains! (Week 2): An activity for an employee to review covering the benefits of whole grains in their diet.

Wellness – The Benefits of Daily Stretching! (Week 3): An activity with tips on how to safely stretch while at the office.

Wellness – How to Stop Eating After Dinner (Week 4): An activity with tips for not over-eating after dinner.

Wellness Program Challenge (Weeks 1-4): A ready-made activity featuring self-evaluation questions related to wellness that make individual’s more aware of their overall healthiness.

Wellness Tracker (Weeks 1-4): Pre-made form for tracking physical activity.

FIRE SERVICE

ARFF Training: TargetSolutions features a pre-built package of activities, including 11 chapters of the FAA’s ARFF Training DVD and five modules covering First Responder Safety at a Small Aircraft or Helicopter Accident.

Apprentice Firefighter Daily Performance Evaluation: An example of a daily performance evaluation form for a recruit that can be filled out by the recruit’s supervisor and then signed (with e-signature) by the firefighter. This activity is used best with TargetSolutions’ Save & Assign application.

CPF Personal Exposure Reporting: Electronic version of the California PERs exposure reporting form.

Daily SCBA Inspection (Options 1-2): Option 1 is an example of a daily SCBA inspection form and features action-step check offs. Option 2 is an example of a daily SCBA inspection form and requires entries such as PSI and inventory numbers.

Forcible Entry-Inward Swinging Door: This activity is an example of how video and files from Community Resources can easily be delivered.

Hose Testing: Hose testing form that tracks hose size, ID and 250 PSI test results.

Hydrant Testing and Inspection: Hydrant test tracking with coefficient selection and entries for static, pitot and residual pressure.

Kennebeck Court Structure Fire: This is an example of how to deliver a post-incident analysis using Activities Builder.

Narcotics Log: Daily EMS check-off sheet for narcotics that features a Google document example.

NIMS, ICS, IS Training: TargetSolutions features pre-built training activities with content from the FEMA website.

Post-Incident Analysis (Structural): Company level post-incident analysis worksheet.

RT-130: Annual Fire Line Refresher Training: Refresher training to recognize hazards, mitigate risk, maintain safe practices, and reduce accidents and near misses.

S-130 Wildland Firefighter Training: This activity takes students to the NFA site for course completion.

S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior: This activity is designed to prepare the prospective fire-line supervisor and undertake safe and effective fire management operations.

Turnout Gear Routine Inspection: Turnout gear inspection with checkoffs for coat, pants, footwear, gloves, helmet and hood inspection points.

Weekly Apparatus Tool Check: Activity to gauge apparatus tools and inventory on a weekly basis.

Weekly SCBA Inspection (Options 1-2): Option 1 provides an example of a weekly SCBA inspection form using entry fields and full inspection procedure. Option 2 shows weekly SCBA inspection forms with action steps for full inspection procedures.

Wildland PPE Inspection: This activity is used to record time spent re-orienting and inspecting Wildland PPE.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Daily Observation Report: Example of a trainee observation report using Standardized Evaluation Guidelines with a rating scale.

POST Perishable Skills Training (Four-Part Series: Arrest Control & Defensive Tactics, Communication, EVOC, Firearms): A series of four activities for tracking POST-required perishable skills training.

Roll Call Tracking: Use this activity to track attendance and topics covered during daily roll call training.

Smith and Wesson M&P Officer Evaluation: This is an assessment for officers who have evaluated the Smith and Wesson M&P pistol for departmental use. It can be used as a template for other firearm evaluations, as well.

TARGETSOLUTIONS TRAINING VIDEOS

Here are the various training video topics that can be delivered through the Activities Builder: Bulletin Board, Community Resources, Course Library, Create New Assignments, Custom Activity Details Report Using Mail Merge, Generate Reports Overview, Manage Assignments, Notifications Overview, Record Completions Tutorial, Save and Assign Overview, Shift Calendar Tutorial, TargetSolutions Administrative Overview Video, TargetSolutions User Overview Video, Test Builder Tutorial, TS Academy Sessions (1-7), TS Fire Academy (Parts 1-5).

All of these activites are available to be imported inside Activities Builder. For more information, please contact us at (800) 840-8048.

Proper execution during high-rise operations is critical training for firefighters. This month’s top video inside Community Resources addresses that very issue.

The video posted by Francois Jacquet of Ottawa International Airport Authority in Canada outlines what firefighters need to know during hallway stretch operations. The video states there are three critical takeaways: Making sure the hallway is tenable, having three drop points, and being able to stretch dry hose to the fire. In addition, the video shows proper technique for folding the hose to make sure it is compact for stairway ascension.

Featuring Lt. Mat Rush, the video is the first of a three-part series titled “High Rise Hose Training.” Combined together the three videos have been viewed nearly 1,300 times and are put to use by 11 different clients of TargetSolutions.

Part 2 focuses on safety precautions while preparing to head to the fire floor. “Very good technique, quite helpful,” wrote Reginald Zellous of Fresno Fire Department (Calif.) in the comments section. Part 3 goes even further into stairwell operations, showing proper procedures for managing hose on the stairwell.

“Good reminder of spacing out hose,” wrote Winfred Andrews of Atlanta Fire Department and Ryan D. Gentile of Orange County Fire Rescue (Fla.) wrote, “nice job!”

To view these videos inside Community Resources, please log in to your department’s TargetSolutions site and search “High Rise Hose Training” in Community Resources. If you have any questions, please contact us at (800) 840-8048.

 TargetSolutions’ online safety training system enables you to bundle web-based courses and activities together and create employee-specific “Learning Tracks.”

What Are Learning Tracks?
With TargetSolutions’ one-of-a-kind Manage Credentials application, platform managers can create Learning Tracks that are based upon department or job title. With hundreds of online safety training courses available in TargetSolutions’ course library, it’s not hard to find the right educational path for everyone.

TargetSolutions’ easy-to-use LMS enables easy delivery and tracking of customized Learning Tracks.

Computer Technicians	Fleet Workers	Maintenance Workers
Custodians	Food Servers & Cooks	School Employees (Principals, Teachers, etc.)
Electrical Workers	Lab Workers	Warehouse Workers

Fair to say most training officers would agree training at “acquired structures” is by far the best, most beneficial firefighter training possible. This is due to the realistic environment these valuable training sites provide during fire department training.

Trying to simulate search and rescue or RIT training at a training facility, while vital in their own regard, pales in comparison to actually being in a large office building or nursing home that has been made available to your department.

After completing this training you might wonder, where you should log this extremely valuable training now that ISO no longer requires multi-company or single-company drills? After all, training must be done at a training facility, and clearly “acquired structures” are not training facilities, right?

Well, the answer is quite simple if you are a TargetSolutions client who has been tracking fire department ISO hours: You don’t have to build a new Custom Activity, although you have that option, since all the activities are already built in the form of Company Training. If you are doing live fire in an acquired structure, use Chapter 15’s Fire Control. All your objectives for fire suppression are there and you can provide more detail in the “Additional Information” box. If the training was performing primary, or secondary searches, use Chapter 8’s Rescue and Extrication.

In fact, training at “Acquired Structures” can and will be captured to meet fire department ISO requirements as all of the Company Training activities are being tracked in the “company bucket” with TargetSolutions’ online fire training system. You merely need to determine which aspect of firefighting is the focus of the day’s training.

If you have any questions about TargetSolutions’ ISO tracking tools, please contact us today at (800) 840-8048.

One of the greatest benefits of TargetSolutions’ online fire training system, is the ability to record outside training with Activities Builder. This powerful computer-based training tool enables departments to send out training presentations, videos, SOPs, inspection checks, and more – and gather information from the user. But with a little creativity, Activities Builder can do even more.

One example is to create a custom activity that allows users to request time off. By making this activity “self-assignable,” users can assign it to themselves and then with Reportable Components, gather important information (date requested, number of hours, reason for leave, etc.).

By mandating the activity receive validation, platform managers can approve or deny the request. Once it has been approved, the user can see the activity marked as “complete” under their My History section. If it is denied, the activity will appear on their Schedule and can include an optional note with information on why it was rejected.

At the end of the pay period, platform managers can run an Activity Summary Report to generate a complete list of all approved leave requests during a given time range. What was once a mess of paperwork and e-mail chains is simplified with TargetSolutions’ fire department training software.

The Activities Builder application was created to give organizations the ability to track everything that goes on under the fire station’s roof. If you have any questions about this application, please contact us at (800) 840-8048.