Course Section Details

The HazMat for First Receiver Operations Level Refresher (didactic) is OSHA compliant. For details please refer to OSHA Best Practices for Hospital-Based First Receivers, section C.0.

PURPOSE: Participants will receive information on principles of contamination, the pathophysiology and initial medical management of CBRN agents and decontamination response logistics as required to meet annual awareness training and the didactic portion of the annual *refresher training.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Awareness: Staff who may come in contact with contaminated individuals arriving (self presenting) to the hospital.  Examples include ED clinicians, ED clerks, ED triage staff and hospital security.
Refresher: Staff who have been designated to provide treatment, triage, decontamination or other services to contaminated individuals. 

PRE-REQUISITES
Awareness: None or previously trained at the Awareness Level.
*Refresher: Trained to Operations level under 29CFR1910.120 (q) (6) (ii).

*NOTE: In order to meet OSHA standards for annual refresher training, staff will need to demonstrates competency in the proper donning and doffing of PPE, review their hospital specific hazmat plans and complete their hospital's respirator medical evaluation questionnaire. Per OSHA, first responder awareness training can count towards the 8-hour Operations Level training.

You are currently enrolled in the HazMat for First Receiver Operations Level Refresher Webinar scheduled for April 10, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

On the day of the session, simply log into LMS with your login username and password.  You will be brought to your "Home Page" and under "My Current Courses" select the launch course button for RTC-HAZ-WEB.  Meeting password is welcome2. 

Follow instructions below:
1.  Enter your name and email address.
2.  Enter the meeting password - welcome2
3.  Click "Join Now"
4.  Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.

To avoid problems logging onto the LMS or accessing the Webex, please begin at least 15 minutes prior to the course.