Securement 101: Basic Wheelchair Securement Training
This online course is intended for anyone who provides transportation support to people who use a wheelchair. It is geared towards new-hires, but can also be used as a refresher course for support staff, drivers, and safety trainers. This online course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to wheelchair securement best practices, can be accessed at any time, and can be completed at each person’s individual pace (over the 30-day access period).
Certification is valid for two (2) years.
This course is not eligible for COMPASS funding.
Securement 101: Basic Wheelchair Securement Training
SARC has entered into a partnership with a third-party provider, Q’STRAINT to provide our members with preferred pricing for the Securement 101: Basic Wheelchair Securement Training. This course is owned by Q’STRAINT.
Through a series of four lessons, this on-demand interactive online course will show you how to operate a variety of 4-point securement systems that are currently available and understand how to properly secure passengers and their wheelchairs.
After completing Securement 101: Basic Wheelchair Securement Training, you will be able to:
- Understand the liability inherent in transporting passengers in wheelchairs, and ways to mitigate that risk and improve passenger safety
- Compare and differentiate between the various types of wheelchair securement equipment, occupant securements, and accessories
- Apply the three essential principles needed to properly secure a wheelchair
- Apply the three essential principles needed to properly secure a wheelchair passenger using the occupant securements
- Differentiate between WC19 complaint wheelchairs and Non-WC19 wheelchairs, and how to approach securement with both types of wheelchairs
- Understand and avoid common securement pitfalls, problems, and errors that lead to most wheelchair incidents
After each of the four lessons, there is a quiz to help you remember what you have learned. You must score 75% to pass each lesson.
It is strongly recommended that you follow-up this course by practicing hands-on securement with the vehicles at your organization.
Learners will receive a Certificate of Completion that will be valid for a two year period, from the date of completion.
Learners have 30 days to complete the Securement 101: Basic Wheelchair Securement Training course.
This course will take approximately 1-2 hours to complete.
Lessons include:
This lesson will discuss your liability as a transportation provider, and ways to reduce it and increase passenger safety.
This lesson will provide an overview of various types of securement equipment and how they work.
This lesson will go over how to use that the securement equipment to properly secure a wheelchair.
This lesson will go over how to use the securement equipment to properly secure the occupant.
About Q’STRAINT
Q’STRAINT continues to be at the forefront of defining and establishing securement regulations worldwide; and to work with global standards groups to ensure that safety becomes accessible for wheelchair passengers in every country – guaranteeing the highest levels of safety for all.
In the 1970s, a team of students and specialists at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada set out to find the answer.
Their research demonstrated that wheelchair passengers have unique safety needs requiring unique safety solutions, which, at the time, did not exist. So the research team developed the world’s first fully integrated 4-point wheelchair passenger securement system. Q’STRAINT was the first to introduce this innovative system to the global transportation industry.
Today, Q’STRAINT continues to build on this tradition of innovation, advancing its mission of providing safe accessibility to everyone by developing the world’s highest quality, wheelchair passenger safety solutions.
Visit the Q’STRAINT website here.
Learn more about Q’STRAINT’s other training courses here.