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Mary C. Gannon • Editor
NAHAD revamps its Hose Safety Institute training options
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NAHAD has always been a leader in promoting hose safety in the industry. Its Hose Safety Institute Handbook has been used for years as a key resource in educating and on-boarding new staff in hose basics. So, it was no surprise at NAHAD’s Annual Meeting in Las Vegas this month that the organization announced it has revamped its Hose Safety Institute (HSI) training options.
First and foremost, the association has taken its paper Handbook and put that content into a digital platform, which allows users to sign on and take courses and assessments online. Called the NAHAD Academy, it makes training more readily available to members. At the conclusion of the business meeting Molly Alton Mullis, EVP of NAHAD, said, “One element that is very important to everyone in this room is hose safety and the Hose Safety Institute. I want your customers and your end users to ask to work with Hose Safety Institute Members. So, the board and staff has spent a lot of time this past year looking at that program, figuring out how we can enhance it, how to better market it and how to propose more value to your customers.” Secondly, the new NAHAD Academy offers online training for everything from HR to supply chain to basic office skills. “We want to help train your workforce so they can produce a better bottom line for you,” Mullins said.
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And thirdly, NAHAD is also beginning to offer regional hands-on training opportunities, the first being this fall in Cleveland on September 10-11. It will be held onsite at Hose Master’s and Summers Rubber’s facilities. Designed for fabrication and sales personnel, it will include short seminars and hands-on activities where they will see HSI best practices demonstrated from beginning to end.
Online training and assessments Joanna Truitt, Director of Training and Hose Safety Institute, said the NAHAD Academy has given the organization the opportunity to take the curriculum and content from Hose Safety Institute and actually create a series of online courses to make it more readily available to all NAHAD members. “We want all of our NAHAD members to be HSI certified. We took that huge handbook of 300+ pages and we divided
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