This committee recommends that we focus on skills that are most effective, understood, and remembered, and the least likely to cause injury. This committee recommends that the maneuvers selected should be rationally related to the job functions of a probation officer and be defensive, rather than offensive, in nature. The primary purpose of this training should be to help employees escape and survive physically threatening situations. This committee recommends that safety trainers get together to actually develop the curriculum we will use. It is further recommended that individuals with a variety of backgrounds and knowledge in defensive skills make up the ad hoc committee to develop the new curriculum.
Any physical training is useless without it.
Some options are to continue with mandatory updates. There is a necessity for more resources if this is done. Vern has indicated that this is a possibility. One suggestion was to hire one or more full-time safety trainers, including at least a partial assignment on the Western Slope. Another option is to allocate partial FTEs to the districts, devoted to safety training.