Responder Safety and Health: Online Trainings

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 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
This course is designed for local public health agencies and professionals who may be involved in public health disasters. The goals of the course are to: Increase awareness of the importance of using PPE in public health emergencies and crises; Reinforce appropriate PPE in different crisis situations and biohazards. The intended audience for this course is local public health employees/ agencies and “on site” professionals who may be involved in public health emergencies such as flooding, disease outbreak, hurricanes and floods, debris cleanup, mass fatalities, or any other related public health emergencies.

 

 Ready or Not? A Family Preparedness Scenario
This interactive, scenario-based course, developed by the Upper Midwest Preparedness and Emergence Response Learning Center, provides training in emergency preparedness for the families of those involved in disaster response, focusing on actions familes can take prior to a disaster. The course takes about 50 minutes or less to complete.

 

 HAZMAT for Healthcare Providers — Awareness Level
This course is intended for health care workers in a hospital environment who may potentially have contact with a contaminated patient. The presence of hazardous materials in an Emergency Department is a risk to everyone - hospital personnel, patients and other people within the hospital. During HAZMAT incidents, hospital personnel should have two main goals: - To protect both themselves and others from exposure to the hazardous material - To provide the same level of care for the contaminated patient as any other patient This course is intended to help you respond to incidents involving hazardous materials in a way that meets these two goals.

 

 HAZMAT for Healthcare Providers — Operations Level
This course is intended for health care workers in a hospital environment who may need to respond to an incident involving a contaminated patient on the operations level. Prerequisite: HAZMAT Awareness for Healthcare Providers is a prerequisite for this course. 

 

 HAZMAT for First Responders
The presence of hazardous materials in an Emergency Department is a risk to everyone - hospital personnel, patients and other people within the hospital. During HAZMAT incidents, hospital personnel should have two main goals: 1. to protect both themselves and others from exposure to the hazardous material 2. to provide the same level of care for the contaminated patient as any other patient This course, designed for health care workers in a hospital environment who may potentially have contact with a contaminated patient, is intended to help you respond to incidents involving hazardous materials in a way that meets these two goals.