Snake Safe Certification Program
Consultation Services
Our biologists will work with you and your team to inventory, assess and plan for venomous snakes around your property, workspace or in your facilities and buildings. We will meet with your team remotely or in person to assess the property, identify risks, and establish custom safety protocols.
Venomous Snake Safety Plan: Our venomous snake safety biologists will create a venomous safety plan for your team or organization. This document will help keep your team prepared to avoid a snake bite. Your team will have the proper information to avoid negative encounters and be able to identify potentially dangerous snakes in the area. This document is a great supplement to our first aid and safety trainings. If your organization keeps venomous snakes, this document will be customized to include husbandry and quarantine safety procedures.
What's included?
Venomous Snake Bite Plan: In the event of a venomous snake bite your team will be ready and prepared for fast immediate care. Your team will know what to do and have a plan. If your team occupies a large property or remote areas, it will be pivotal to have a plan in place. We will identify the best emergency services to call and determine if they have antivenom at the nearby hospital. We will create an easy to follow, customized document for you and your team to be ready.
What's included?
What's included?
- Venomous snake species in your area
- Encounter Avoidance- how to stay safe in the workplace, move tools and heavy machinery with minimal risk, how to avoid venomous snakes in the field
- Encounter Safety techniques- best procedures for encountering a venomous snake in the field or workplace
- Best Practices for removing or relocating venomous snakes
- Husbandry- customized plan for securing your animals, detailed information about labels, containment, cleaning, ventilation, feeding and record keeping
Venomous Snake Bite Plan: In the event of a venomous snake bite your team will be ready and prepared for fast immediate care. Your team will know what to do and have a plan. If your team occupies a large property or remote areas, it will be pivotal to have a plan in place. We will identify the best emergency services to call and determine if they have antivenom at the nearby hospital. We will create an easy to follow, customized document for you and your team to be ready.
What's included?
- Customized Snake Bite Procedures (step by step directions in the even of a bite)
- What NOT to do
- Venomous Animal Escape Plan (for husbandry organization)
Ready to get started?
Schedule a free 30-min meeting to discuss the needs of your organization.
Schedule a free 30-min meeting to discuss the needs of your organization.
Our venomous snake safety biologists will create a Safety Plan and Venomous Snake Bite Plan for your team or organization.
Ensuring worker and snake safety
Risk Management and Safety Education
Our Standard
Our methods for handling and manipulation are not your "Hey, dude- hold my beer" type methods. We do not teach methods you see on TV, because to be honest- our methods are not for TV. They are boring, they are safe. We operate with safety first, always. The tools we use maximize safety while maintaining snake comfort.
Our training course instructors are not simply snake enthusiasts but each have over 20 years (and some twice that) of professional venomous snake experience in zoos and field research. Our instructors are researchers, zoologists and wildlife biologists. Joe, the owner of Adaptation and lead instructor, was trained in captive husbandry with venomous snakes in the zoo setting. Since then he has worked in wildlife research and education. Our courses are taught by instructors that have first hand experience with venomous snakes in the field. We have 10+ years experience radio tracking rattlesnakes to inform managers on rattlesnake activity, den and hibernation location, determine habitat usage and monitor encroachment. Our trainers prioritize safety in all courses.
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Check out this video created for the Department of Defense
The techniques in this video establish The Standard for baseline safety and manipulation with U.S. venomous snakes using Hooks, Tongs, and Containment. Our techniques were reviewed independently by experts and continue being received very well publicly on YouTube and nationwide in our courses.