OSHA Compliance Training Courses
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration Series
Hazardous Chemicals & Drugs
Course Details:
Duration: 30 Minutes
Target Audience: Employees that may encounter hazardous chemicals and/or drugs
Course Overview: OSHA's role is to ensure safe working conditions for all American workers by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, education, and assistance. As part of these safety measures, workers who work with hazardous chemicals and drugs must be trained on the proper procedures involved when handling hazardous chemicals and/or drugs.
OSHA Administration & Management
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Administrators and Management
Course Overview: Under OSHA guidelines, employers are required to supply their organizations with the policies and procedures needed to ensure the general safety of all employees. The OSHA Compliance Officer must designate which employees dependent upon their job descriptions must receive training on the following OSHA Standards: General Safety, Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure, Hazard Communication, and Biohazardous Waste Management Training.
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens I
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Any employee that may encounter bloodborne pathogens or any OPIM
Course Overview: Pursuant to federal law all providers and health care employees need to complete annual OSHA training, including bloodborne pathogens training. OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard requires a practice to develop a written Exposure Control Plan, establish training programs to alert employees to the dangers of bloodborne pathogens, and the require recordkeeping.
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens II
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: All healthcare employees
Course Overview: Approximately 5.6 million workers in health care and other facilities are at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV). OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens standard prescribes safeguards to protect workers against the health hazards from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials and to risk-reducing their risk from this exposure. All providers and health care employees need to complete annual OSHA training, including bloodborne pathogens training.
OSHA Building Safety
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: In accordance with OSHA 1910.34 through 1910.39 standards and NFPA 101-2000 Life Safety Code II, employees should have building safety training and instructions for what to do in the event of any emergency. Training must be effective in protecting workers, patients, and visitors, by preventing injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Included in the building safety training are general safety items, such as how to avoid things like slips, trips, and falls, fire safety plans, electrical safety, hazardous materials, and chemical dangers, natural disaster and evacuation plans, campus, and parking lot security.
OSHA Clinical Safety Training Course
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Clinical Employees
Course Overview: Employees that work in clinical environments must be trained on how to address and protect themselves from possible exposures and risks that they may encounter as part of their job responsibilities. OSHA standard 29 CFR 1910.132 requires employers to assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present, or likely to be present, which necessitate the use of PPE. Employers that have employees working in a clinical setting must have training in place that is effective in protecting against possible injury, illness, or even death.
OSHA Compliance 101 for New Hires
Course Details:
Duration: 30 Minutes
Target Audience: All Employees; New Hires
Course Overview: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to provide a safe workplace for their employees, provide a workplace that does not have serious hazards, and must follow all OSHA safety and health standards. This training is great for new hires to introduce them to the basics of OSHA, with a brief overview of employee rights, OSHA standards with examples, laws, regulations, inspections, enforcements, recordkeeping, and the complaint process.
OSHA Compliance Basics
Course Details:
Duration: 2 Hours
Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires initial and annual training for all employees on all standards according to their job-related duties. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA is authorized to conduct workplace inspections and investigations to determine whether employers are complying with standards issued by the agency for safe and healthful workplaces. This training course covers general safety, bloodborne pathogens, hazard communications standards, regulated waste management, and how to be prepared for an OSHA walkthrough.
OSHA Department of Transportation (DOT)
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Healthcare providers or employees that take part in the transportation of biomedical waste or OPIM
Course Overview: Healthcare providers and/or employees that transport biomedical waste (or other OPIM) from one location to another must-have Department of Transportation (DOT) training. DOT defines a hazardous material as any item or chemical that, when being transported or moved in commerce, is a risk to public safety or the environment, and is regulated as such under its Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration regulations which include the Hazardous Materials Regulations. This training promotes the proficiency and understanding of the proper procedures to follow when handling, transporting, and/or shipping biomedical waste or other OPIM.
OSHA for Business Associates
Course Details:
Duration: 60 Minutes
Target Audience: All Business Associates
Course Overview: To be able to train employees so that they can demonstrate they have the knowledge and proficiency in all OSHA-related objectives.
OSHA General Safety Training
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: OSHA's mission is to ensure the protection of workers and prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by setting and enforcing standards, and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance. This training provides organizations with policies and procedures to ensure the general safety of employees and to demonstrate a commitment to following the legal requirements under OSHA.
OSHA Hazardous Waste Standard
Course Details:
Duration: 60 Minutes
Target Audience: Employees that may encounter hazardous chemicals and/or drugs
Course Overview: According to OSHA, the purpose of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is "to ensure that employers and employees are educated about and protected against chemical hazards in the workplace." All employers are required to develop a written Hazard Communication Plan and properly train employees who may encounter hazardous chemicals in the workplace.
OSHA Refresher Training Course
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Administration, Management, All Employees
Course Overview: To update and refresh on OSHA guidelines and requirements to maintain organizations with the policies and procedures needed to ensure the general safety of employees. Included in this training, are policies about evacuation plans, fire safety, electrical safety, chemical exposures, eyewash station, workplace injuries, and violence.
OSHA Safety (CME)
Course Details:
Duration: 2 Hours
Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: Under the OSHA Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to ensure these conditions for America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, education, and assistance. This course is an approved Continuing Medical Education (CME) covering OSHA required initial and annual training for all employees according to their job-related duties, including the four standards (General Safety, Bloodborne Pathogens Hazard Communication, Regulated Waste Management) of an OSHA Safety Compliance program.
OSHA Safety for Home & Hospice
Course Details:
Duration: 45 Minutes
Target Audience: Homecare and Hospice Employees
Course Overview: For those employees that may work in patient homes, or in community-based services such as group home-health aides, nursing assistants, home health nurses, etc. can have limited control over the work environments that are encountered each day. While performing certain job duties of helping patients with their daily activities there can be challenges, dangers, stress, and exposure risks involved. The following training is based on the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the guidance of homecare workers.
Spill Kits & Clean-Up Procedures
Course Details:
Duration: 30 Minutes
Target Audience: All Employees
Course Overview: In healthcare facilities, there are hazardous substances such as bodily fluids, drugs, cleaning fluids, and other chemicals that are present that may spill and require a proper cleanup procedure. This training is for all healthcare employees on the responsibilities involved when dealing with hazardous spills and the location of spill kits within the organization.
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