Instructors

Life Saving Education is built around a simple standard: the people teaching emergency, medical, and workplace-safety skills should understand how those skills are actually used. Our instructor team brings field, clinical, rescue, safety, and teaching experience into the classroom so students learn more than a checklist.

Real-World Experience Behind the Training

Life Saving Education instructors are selected for both subject-matter experience and the ability to teach. Our current instructor standard begins with paramedic-level clinical experience and teaching experience, with many instructors also bringing backgrounds in firefighting, nursing, military medicine, tactical medicine, technical rescue, hazardous materials, occupational safety, or related emergency-response disciplines.

Course-specific credentials and authorizations vary by program. American Heart Association courses, OSHA Outreach training, HAZWOPER, confined-space programs, and specialized medical or safety courses each have different instructor and delivery requirements. Life Saving Education matches the instructor and course format to the program being delivered.

Founder and Lead Instructor

Joseph Andrade

Firefighter • Paramedic • Registered Nurse • OSHA Outreach Instructor • Educator

Joseph Andrade founded Life Saving Education around the belief that training should prepare people to perform when the situation is stressful, imperfect, and time-critical. His background spans fire service, prehospital emergency care, nursing, workplace safety, and education. That combination shapes LSE’s emphasis on realistic decision-making, hands-on practice, clear explanations, and the reasons behind each skill.

The goal is not to make a class harder than it needs to be. It is to make the training useful after the class ends.

What Students Can Expect From an LSE Instructor

• Clear instruction. Complex concepts are broken down into usable steps without talking down to experienced learners.
• Hands-on practice. Skills courses emphasize practice, feedback, and correction rather than passive slide-based learning.
• Realistic context. Instructors connect standards and procedures to the decisions students may actually face in the field, workplace, ambulance, fireground, or clinical setting.
• Professional boundaries. Training is delivered within the applicable course standards, credentialing requirements, employer responsibilities, and instructor scope.
• Questions are encouraged. Students should understand why a procedure or safety control matters, not simply memorize an answer for a test.

Areas Our Instructors Teach

Instructor availability varies by location and program, but Life Saving Education’s training portfolio includes:

• American Heart Association BLS, ACLS, PALS, Heartsaver CPR/AED, and first aid programs
• OSHA 10-Hour and OSHA 30-Hour Outreach training
• HAZWOPER initial and refresher training
• Confined-space awareness, entrant, attendant, entry-supervisor, and rescue-related programs
• EMS and healthcare simulation
• Bleeding-control and emergency-readiness education
• Instructor development and customized group training

Explore the current course catalog or review onsite group training for organizations.

Instructor Quality Matters

A certification card or completion document matters, but it is not the only outcome of a good class. Students should leave understanding what to do, why it matters, what the limitations are, and when the situation requires escalation or additional resources. LSE instructors are expected to teach to that standard.

For employers and agencies, this also means training can be discussed in the context of the organization’s hazards, workforce, equipment, and procedures when the governing course allows customization.

Interested in Teaching With Life Saving Education?

Qualified professionals interested in teaching can review our Become an Instructor page. Course-specific instructor credentials, experience, availability, and teaching standards apply.