Helping at a Check

SusanMae

Senior Community Member
Ok---so there's this Family Fun and Safety Day on Saturday am. An insurance company is putting it on. I saw it in the paper and called the phone number to the insurance company. I asked if I could come and help the techs---like be a scribe for them or something. I explained that I will be taking the tech class at the end of Oct.

Well I guess she thought I wanted the techs working the check to certify me---I said they can't do that it's a 4 day course--yadda, yadda, yadda. She told me I was welcome to come out and watch the techs.

So anyway--I went back and reread the blurb below the pic of a prior seat check.(The pic was of my neice, btw.) I read where the techs are from, so now I can call their agency directly.

I would like to help at the check. What should I ask them to do? Scribe, help parents with paperwork? I can't lift over 20 pounds. Also should I ask if they promote ERF, EH and 4 and 40 for a booster, 5 step test?

I'm in MD and our laws are 1 and 20 to FF and 6 and 40 to be out of a seat.

Now I know you can't make a parent do more than the law--but I want to know if they at least educate.

Susan
 
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NHCPSTECH

Senior Community Member
"So anyway--I went back and reread the blurb below the pic of a prior seat check.(The pic was of my neice, btw.) I read where the techs are from, so now I can call their agency directly.

I would like to help at the check. What should I ask them to do? Scribe, help parents with paperwork? I can't lift over 20 pounds. Also should I ask if they promote ERF, EH and 4 and 40 for a booster, 5 step test?"

My suggestion is to call and ask what you can do to help, and then do whatever they'd like you to do. If they don't have anything for you to do, ask if you can just observe...and then do just that, observe. I dunno, if you call them and start questioning them it might be a turnoff and they might get worried about having you there. Give them the benefit of the doubt that they follow the curriculum. As far as scribing, I personally don't like to have a scribe, and prefer to do my own documentation. When you get certified, you can take a different approach, but until then, I'd let them do their thing and run the show.

:twocents:

R.
 

SusanMae

Senior Community Member
Thanks--I'm going to try to get at least one of my cousins to come out to the check. She was due on the 18th and I don't know if she had her baby. I know she was really upset about me losing Ethan...and I really want to do everything I can to protect her from losing her son.

Susan
 

Namegirl

Senior Community Member
Call and ask. I helped at checks before I was certified and I was able to scribe and just generally help out.
 

Namegirl

Senior Community Member
Well, I helped take them out and looked for the stickers on them. I might have helped install in a minimal way--we make the parents install, anyway.

It was worth it to go, though, to see how a seat check works in my area.
 

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