This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual refresher training for individuals who have previously completed the 24- or 40-hour Safety and Health Training. Topics include: incident review, hazard recognition/evaluation/control review, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, respiratory protection, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.

This course consists of three days of lectures, discussions, classroom demonstrations and small group exercises.

Topics Include

• Overview of hazardous waste site activities
• Federal and state regulations
• Harmful effects of exposures, medical monitoring
• Hazard recognition
• Levels of protection and personal protective clothing
• Instruments for measuring, sampling and monitoring operations
• Hazard control strategies
• Overview of respiratory protection programs

Includes the 24-hour course plus 16 additional hours of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experience. Instructional activities include: instrument use and calibration exercises, confined space equipment demonstration, barrel overpacking/leaking drums demonstration, initial site survey exercise, decontamination exercise, barrel content identification exercise, sampling safety lecture.

Includes extensive hands-on training!

• Simulated field and decontamination exercises
• Performing routine respirator maintenance
• Developing a site safety plan
• Donning a variety of respiratory protection devices including: supplied air, self contained breathing apparatus, and air purifying respirators
• Performing routine positive, negative respirator fit checks
• Testing respiratory equipment using qualitative and quantitative methodology
• Donning chemical protective clothing
• Utilizing a variety of monitoring equipment

This two day course is designed for all emergency preparedness specialists, planners, coordinators, as well as industry representatives interested in developing a system to respond to natural or terroristic events. This course is of particular interest to occupational health professionals responsible for developing their organization¿s emergency response plan.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Size up an emergency scene
• Work within the system to set up response actions
• Identify needed elements to develop an emergency response plan
• Take necessary precautions to maintain the integrity of the scene

Accidents, natural disasters and acts of terrorism can all occur, without any notice. In order to prepare for the unexpected, workplaces need to have an emergency action plan (EAP) ready to execute in case of an event. This 4-hour course trains an incident commander to design an EAP to properly evacuate employees in the event of an emergency.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Plan and identify means of emergency egress
• Identify key components of an evacuation plan and fixed fire suppression system
• Know the key elements of the incident command framework

To aid in the prevention of casualties at an emergency incident, an organized system must be in place. The Incident Management System (IMS) is one such model program that effectively manages incidents based on an "all-hazards" approach. This 4-hour course offers an overview of important portions of IMS that are crucial in an emergency incident.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Determine functions of IMS
• Identify effective vocabulary for communication use at the scene
• Apply incident management concepts

This 16-hour course builds upon the 4-hour introductory course to use "real life" scenarios for incident management response. Included is an overview of the new National Incident Management System (NIMS) and new requirements under this system. This course meets the new National Incident Management System Certification requirements.

This new course is designed specifically for first responders and others dealing with hazardous materials exposures in a health care/hospital setting. Topics include: ambulatory/nonambulatory patient decontamination, appropriate personal protective equipment selection and use triage response in mass casualty exposure. Scenario exercises will be included.

This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual emergency response refresher training for individuals who have previously completed the Technician or Operations Level training. Topics include incident review, hazard recognition/ evaluation/control, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.

This course consists of three days of lectures, discussions, classroom demonstrations, small group exercises and hands-on training. It is designed to provide training required by OSHA 1910.120 to respond to hazardous substance releases with the purpose of protecting persons, property and the environment from the effects of the release, and to contain the release. Emphasis will be placed on responding in a defensive manner without actually trying to stop the release.

Topics Include:

• Relevant state and federal regulations
• Health hazard recognition and risk assessment
• Selection and use of personal protective equipment
• Decontamination
• Emergency response plans and termination procedures
• Incident Command System

Includes the 24-hour course plus 16 additional hours of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experience. The Technician Level course is designed to provide training required by OSHA 1910.120 to respond to releases with the purpose of stopping the release.

Topics Include:

• Implementation of emergency response plans
• Classification and identification of unknowns
• Response tactics
• Hazardous materials technology
• Decontamination of personnel and equipment

Includes extensive hands-on training!

• Simulated field and decontamination exercises
• Performing respirator maintenance
• Donning a variety of respiratory protection devices, including supplied air respirators, self-contained breathing apparatus, air-purifying respirators
• Testing respiratory equipment using qualitative and quantitative methodology
• Donning chemical protective clothing
• Utilizing a variety of monitoring equipment Exercises are done using level A, B, and C personal protective equipment.