20+ Online Courses to Reduce Liability and Protect Your Organization and Communities You Serve

Effective risk management is essential to combat a wide variety of challenges that can negatively impact the health, safety, and privacy of employees and the public at large.

Local governments and risk pools are looking for solutions to help mitigate risk and reduce costly claims.

According to a recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, TED: The Economics Daily report, compensation costs for civilian personnel increased 4.2% from March 2023 to March 2024, and increased 4.8% for the year ending in March 2023.

The National Safety Council (NSC) estimated the total work injury costs in 2023 amounted to more than $176 billion, with time lost due to work-related injuries totaling 103 million days.

To help your organization limit its exposure to risk and protect employees as well as the communities you serve, we are highlighting some of the top courses across catalogs available on TargetSolutions for mitigating liability by the topics that are most important to you.

Information Privacy

• HIPAA Courses
  • HIPAA Awareness (EMS/CAPCE)
  • General HIPAA Awareness (HR & Business Skills)
• Cybersecurity Courses (Cybersecurity)
  • Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees: Security Awareness Essentials
  • Cybersecurity Awareness for Employees: Social Engineering
  • Computer Security Awareness

Harassment Prevention

• Harassment Prevention for Supervisors (HR & Business Skills)
• Harassment Prevention for Employees (HR & Business Skills)
• Understanding Discrimination and Harassment in Fire and EMS (EMS/CAPCE, FIRE)

Workplace Safety/Employee Wellbeing

• Bloodborne Pathogen Safety (various catalogs, both OSHA and Cal/OSHA versions)
• Fire Extinguisher Safety (OSHA)
• Slips, Trips, & Falls Prevention (OSHA)
• Workplace Violence (HR & Business Skills, EDU)

Vehicle Safety (Driver Safety Training)

• Fleet Program Defensive Driving Strategies for Emergency Vehicle Operators
• Driving Safety
• Distracted Driving

Workplace Professionalism

• Reasonable Suspicion of Drugs for Supervisors (HR & Business Skills)
• Reasonable Suspicion of Alcohol for Supervisors (HR & Business Skills)
• Ethics in the Workplace (HR & Business Skills)
• California Local Agency Ethics (HR & Business Skills)
• Ethical Decision Making for Law Enforcement (Law Enforcement)

Child Abuse Mandated Reporting (various industries & CA specific versions)

• Child Abuse: Mandated Reported Training (EDU, EDU-CA, HR)
• Child Abuse: An EMS Professionals Role & Responsibilities (EMS/CAPCE)

These are just a few examples of courses Vector offers in our comprehensive catalogs to support your organization’s liability risk prevention efforts.

Explore our complete public safety course libraries to discover more online training that addresses mission-critical topics, including state-specific, industry-focused, and professional development content.