Our 2014/2015 training schedule for snowcat & winter survival courses in now available - Check it out here! We have classes in CO, CA and UT with more potentially being added, and dates announced for snowmobile, ice driving and winter survival lecture only as well! If you have a...
Welcome to our house. A house built with 25 years of safety training experience in a variety of areas including safety at height tower rescue, fall protection, rope access, drone flight, confined space, snowcat, ATV, snowmobile, helicopter passenger survival, ice driving, trailer driving, winter survival,...
Last week we attended the 2014 72nd Annual 72nd Annual NUTSEA Conference in Colorado Springs at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. Beautiful place, and many nice people. Good to connect some faces to voices and speak with some new folks as well. As always we hold a...
Product Review NEW INSULATION DESIGN FOR COLD WEATHER WORKERS—REVIEW OF “The North Face’s” new “Great Goose” insulated jackets. [caption id="attachment_2517" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo Courtesy of The North Face[/caption] We have wrapped up our snow training season recently with some extra training in the great white north of Canada....
Product Review – AERIS This past season we had the opportunity to evaluate and test different products in the extreme winter survival environments we face regularly in our snowcat operator training courses. Several of the instructors at Safety One Training International Inc were looking forward to...
Frostbite Always a real and serious danger for the remote worker, this article from 2005 in Incident Prevention magazine is as applicable today as it was when it was written. Read more here....
We were recently interviewed by RCR Wireless regarding the recent winter conditions across the counrty and potential hazards within our industry. With most of the country just recovered from a polar vortex, and two Alberta clippers forecast to bring cold and snow to much of the...
The Old Survival Kit We have been providing the same basic kit to our clients for years now. Many of you are familiar with the orange backpack stuffed with numerous items valuable in a survival situation. We spent the last couple of years investigating the usage...
Safe All-Terrain Vehicle Operation The Safe All-Terrain Vehicle Operation article featured in Utility Safety magazine was written in 2000 by Bill Siuru and myself about winter hazards and operating All-Terrain vehicles. In addition to discussing winter hazards some OSHA citations involving snowcat operations were discussed. These...