The following OSHA Training for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is designed to educate HCP how to protect themselves and others while adhering to State and Federal OSHA regulations.
What you will learn:
- What is OSHA?
- Exposure control plan (ECP)
- ECP requirements
- Needle-stick procedure
- How do you keep infection rates down?
- Blood-work timeliness
- How employees can prevent a needle-stick
- What is universal precaution?
- Controlling exposure
- Eyewash stations
- Needle-stick Safety and Prevention Act
- OSHA regulations
- Sharps annual review
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Bloodborne pathogens
- What should you do if you are exposed?
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Disinfection and decontamination policy
- Office policy for protecting employees from biomedical waste
- Sharps containers
- Hazard Communication Standard
- Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Major changes to the Hazard Communication Standard
- Hazard classification and labels
- Requirements for training on labels
- Signal word
- Precautionary statements
- Pictograms required by OSHA
- Master chemical inventory
- SDS requirements
- Required office logs
- Emergency plans
- Emergency protocol
- Injury and illness prevention program
- Safe work environment
- Aerosol diseases
- Policy protecting employees from aerosol diseases
Once completed, you will receive a certificate of completion to verify you have finished the training. Course length: 45 minutes.
The information contained in these trainings was derived from publications of OSHA, OCR, FDA, CDC, NIAID, ATSDR, HHS or WHO (Government Sourced Material). None of the planners, authors or instructors for this activity have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. The Government Sourced Material used by AMC is available for no charge on their associated websites. The use of the Government Sourced Material by AMC does not imply endorsement or recommendation by OSHA, OCR, FDA, CDC, NIAID, ATSDR, HHS or WHO or by the United States Government, of AMC, its enterprise, its facility, its services or its products. © 2024 American Medical Compliance, no copyright claimed in Government Sourced Material. If you are not completely satisfied with this course within 30 days you will receive a full refund.