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Continuing Education Credits Offered
American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH)
Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP)
Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
8-Hour Site Worker Refresher - $190
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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.
24-Hour Site Worker Training - $575
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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
40-Hour Site Worker Training - $925
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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
Homeland Security - $300
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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
Evacuation Coordination: Train the Trainer - $75
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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
Incident Management Systems Awareness - $75
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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
Minnesota Incident Management System - $190
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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.
8-Hour Hospital Decontamination - $190
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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.
8-Hour Emergency Response Refresher - $190
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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.
24-Hour Emergency Response Operations Level Training - $575
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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
40-Hour Emergency Response Technician Level Training - $925
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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.