When it comes to infant safety having a properly installed child’s car seat is very important.
There are often car seat clinics for parents to make sure their seats are properly installed, but who teaches the inspectors?
As it turns out there are workshops hosted by SGI, and the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute (SPI), to teach technicians. One of those workshops was held in Yorkton last week at the Fire Hall.
“We’re teaching new car seat technicians,” explained Travis Holeha Child Traffic Safety Program Coordinator with the SPI.
Holeha said once technicians complete a course like the one held in Yorkton “they can go to their own communities and do clinics.”
Holeha said the course provides technicians with how to check car seats for possible issues, and how to ascertain if the seat has been properly installed in the vehicle.
Holeha said it important to be trained because there are so many different makes and models of car seats being installed in a huge range of different vehicles.
“Every situation is different,” he said.
The Yorkton event attracted six prospective technicians.
Holeha said it is a smaller event, but part of an ongoing program which trains techs in smaller communities outside of Regina and Saskatoon.
Firefighters Lee Stoppler and Travis Morash (in car) and Travis Holeha Child Traffic Safety Program Coordinator.
