Course
Content
This course is intended to increase the participant's awareness
of the safety and health hazards, including CBRNE agents, that may
be encountered at a natural or man-made disaster site. The importance
of respiratory and other personal protective equipment and proper
decontamination procedures that may be used to mitigate the hazards
will be emphasized. Participants will support the use of an Incident
Command System through the safety performance of their job responsiblities.
They will be able to show awareness of effects of traumatic incident
stress that can result from working conditions and measures to reduce
this stress. In addition, participants will be able to perform the
following specific tasks correctly:
• Inspection of an air-purifying
respirator
• Donning and doffing and air-purifying respirator
• Respirator user seal check
Who Should Attend
Disaster Site Workers who provide skilled support services (e.g.,
utility, demolition, debris removal, or heavy equipment operation)
or site clean-up services in response to a disaster.
Prerequisites/Participant
Tools
Participants must have completed the OSHA 10-hour Construction or General Industry Outreach
Training Course. Participant must forward a copy of certificate
for confirmation of prerequisite. The course manual will be provided. The course manual on CD
and the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) may be purchased for
an additional fee.
Eastern Michigan University
Center for Organizational Risk Reduction
Great Lakes Regional OSHA Education Center
2000 Huron River Drive, Suite 101
Ypsilanti, MI 48197