HazMat for Healthcare™ First Responder/ Receiver Operations Level

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.

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

• Introduction
  
• 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