Sunday, October 12, 2008
OSHA Announces Training for Disaster Site Workers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced the new Disaster Site Worker Outreach Training Program.
The program is designed to train workers who provide skilled support in emergency response and recovery operations at disaster sites and raise workers' and employers' awareness that pre-incident training is essential to ensuring worker safety and health.
A 16-hour Disaster Site Worker Course emphasizes
the incident command system, hazard awareness, personal protective equipment and decontamination.
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