Onsite Training
First Responder/First Receiver Operations Level
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Class size: Up to 30 students
Course length: 12 hours
Price: $11,900 (less than $400 per person)
Course format: Lecture, multi-media, group activities, skills training
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Overview
A program that provides training in the defensive management of internal hazardous material incidents and the decontamination of contaminated victims, including mass decontamination. Includes the 4-hour Awareness course. A Certification of Completion provided for each student at the end of the course.
Audience
Those healthcare workers who may be required to respond defensively to a hazardous materials incident and/or conduct decontamination activities, including mass decon. Healthcare workers in the Emergency Department; Security; Facilities; Environmental Services; Maintenance Division; Medical Services Staff; and many others.
Outcomes for Organization
An internal team that can provide decontamination for contaminated victims and address internal spills in a defensive manner.
Outcomes for Students
Provides marketable job skills to protect oneself and those in the hospital from spills as well as contaminated victims that present at the hospital.
Regulatory and Compliance Requirements
This course meets OSHA’s requirements for meeting their Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standards.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the need for, types, selection criteria and limits of protective equipment commonly used in HazMat incidents
- Select, don and doff the proper personal protective equipment
- Understand the hazards and limitations of personal protective equipment
- Describe the purpose and need to implement the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS)
- Verbalize definitions of basic hazardous materials terms
- Apply basic hazard and risk assessment techniques to simulated hazardous materials incidents
- Describe the aspects of control, containment, and confinement within your resources
- Describe protective actions and rescue options
- Describe understanding of relevant standard operating guidelines and termination of event procedures
- Explain decontamination procedures for victims, personnel and equipment
- Discuss application of relevant Standard Operating Guidelines for Spill Management and Patient Decontamination
- Describe proper disposal and documentation procedures during a HazMat response
- Discuss methods for mass decontamination
- Participate as a team member in operation of a mass decontamination activity
Topics Covered
- Hazard Control
- Levels of PPE
- PPE Capabilities and Limitations
- PPE Demonstrations (Donning, Marieing, Doffing)
- Personnel Monitoring
- Practical Exercise (PPE Donning and Doffing Exercise)
- Safety Systems
- Monitoring Devices
- HICS, Organization Charts, Job Action Sheets
- Spill Management vs. Decontamination
- Basic Hazard and Risk Assessment (HARM Worksheet)
- Action Planning
- Site Safety Plan
- Contain, Control, Confine, Rescue
- What level of capability do I have with the resources and training that I have?
- Defensive or Offensive
- Protective Actions
- Evacuation vs. Shelter-In-Place
- Standard Operating Guidelines (SOGs)
- Management of the Contaminated Patient
- Media Implications
- Management of the Contaminated Patient
- Decontamination Guidelines and Flow Chart
- Mass Decontamination Discussion
- Practical Exercise
- Donning PPE
- Setting up Decontamination Corridor
- Decontamination Process Exercise
- Decontamination of Team Members
- Doffing PPE
- Proper Event Termination Activities
- Post Event Monitoring and Disposal of Hazardous Materials
- Post Event Documentation
- Module Review
- Course Review
- Post Assessment and Module Evaluation
- Course Evaluation
Continuing Education Credits
This training course is designed to be eligible for continuing education credits. We work with the sponsoring organizations to facilitate the granting of continuing education units with appropriate state accrediting bodies.
Support Materials
Each student receives a binder containing printed version of training slides and other support materials.
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