OSHA 10-HOUR
GENERAL INDUSTRY
(PUBLIC SAFETY: EMS)
Our OSHA 10-Hour Public Safety: EMS course provides relevant, industry-recognized training for entry-level workers on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards.
About the OSHA 10-Hour General Industry (Public Safety: EMS) Course:
The OSHA Outreach Training Program for General Industry (Public Safety: EMS) provides entry-level workers training on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards in workplaces in the emergency medical services industry. The program also provides information regarding workers' rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint. Through this training, OSHA helps to ensure that workers are more knowledgeable about workplace hazards and their rights. Students who successfully complete the CareerSafe OSHA 10-Hour General Industry (Public Safety: EMS) course receive an OSHA 10-Hour General Industry card from the OSHA Training Institute (OTI).
Required Topics:
Given OSHA historical events and current information, the student will be able to explain the importance of OSHA in providing a safe and healthful workplace to workers covered by OSHA.
- Explain why OSHA is important to workers.
- Explain worker rights under OSHA.
- Discuss employer responsibilities under OSHA.
- Discuss the use of OSHA standards.
- Explain how OSHA inspections are conducted.
- Utilize helpful worker safety and health resources.
Given current OSHA and general industry information regarding worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize responsibilities related to hazard communications, including Global Harmonizing System (GHS) requirements.
- Identify the employer’s responsibilities under the HCS, including training requirements.
- Identify components of a Hazard Communication program.
- Describe requirements of the different types of Hazard Communication labels.
- Locate pertinent information about chemicals on labels, including other forms of hazard communication, to ensure “right to understanding” provisions of GHS requirements.
Given current OSHA and general industry information regarding worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize responsibilities related to safety and health in the workplace.
- Recognize the costs of workplace accidents.
- Recognize the benefits of implementing an effective safety and health program.
- Describe the elements of an effective safety and health program.
- Identify three methods to prevent workplace hazards.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with walking/working hazards.
- Identify hazards in the workplace associated with walking and working surfaces.
- Identify best practices for eliminating or controlling hazards associated with walking and working surfaces in the workplace.
- Recognize employer requirements to protect workers from walking and working surface hazards.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards and best practices associated with emergency action plans, fire prevention plans fire protection, and exit routes.
- Recognize benefits of an Emergency Action Plan.
- Identify elements of Fire Protection Plan.
- Identify conditions under which evacuation actions may be necessary in an emergency situation.
- Identify conditions under which shelter-in-place may be necessary in an emergency situation.
- Identify characteristics of an effective emergency escape route.
- Recognize the five types of fire extinguishers, including the types of fires they can extinguish.
- Review requirements for proper maintenance of portable fire extinguishers.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with driving.
- Identify the number one cause of death for U.S. teens.
- List eight risk factors for young drivers.
- Identify the biggest risk factor for young drivers.
- Define distracted driving.
- Provide examples and/or causes of distracted driving.
- Identify the biggest risk factor for distracted driving.
- Discuss the risk of having other young passengers in the car.
- List some actions employers should take to keep employees safe while driving.
- List some actions employees can take to safely drive on the job.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding worksite illnesses, injuries and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize electrocution hazards in healthcare.
- Identify major electrical hazards.
- Describe types of electrical hazards.
- Describe electrical protection methods.
- Recognize employer requirements to protect workers from electrical hazards.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with working with bloodborne pathogens in the workplace.
- Identify OSHA requirements pertaining to bloodborne pathogens.
- Recognize the common types of exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
- List the potential routes of exposures from bloodborne pathogens.
- Identify the risks associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus.
- Identify methods of preventing transmission of bloodborne pathogens and managing occupational exposures.
- Restate methods for safe disposal of sharps.
- Recount steps which should be taken in the event of an exposure to a potential bloodborne pathogen.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with healthcare-associated infections, how they are spread, and how to control their spread.
- Define microorganisms.
- Describe the chain of infection.
- Describe the modes of transmission of healthcare-associated infections.
- Recount how to control the spread of healthcare-associated infections through the safe handling of potentially contaminated equipment or surfaces in the patient environment.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with personal protective equipment.
- Explain why PPE is important.
- List employer responsibilities with regard to PPE and employee safety.
- List the different types of PPE.
- Describe how to safely don and remove PPE.
- List the sequence in which PPE should be donned and removed.
- Evaluate information on the selection and use of PPE in healthcare settings.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding worksite ergonomic injuries, the student will be able to recognize ergonomic hazards and select solutions which prevent injuries from occurring.
- Recognize risk factors associated with work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD)s.
- Identify good posture.
- Describe safe lifting techniques.
- Identify ergonomic control methods for eliminating/reducing work-related MSDs.
Given current OSHA and general industry information regarding worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with the emergency medical services industry.
- Recall the skills required for EMS provider safety.
- Contrast how mindsets increase or decrease EMS safety.
- Identify vehicle and transportation hazards.
- List best practices to reduce transportation hazards.
- Name the categories of potential hazards when assessing scenes.
- Describe tactics to minimize hazards when arriving at a scene.
- Recognize the hazards associated with patient and equipment handling.
- Select best practices for safe patient handling.
- Identify the causes and symptoms of stress.
- Restate strategies and tactics for stress management.
- Recognize EMS career-related hazards.
Supplemental Topics:
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding privacy, the student will know how to interact with patients and protect patient information in accordance with HIPAA.
- Explain the importance of HIPAA.
- State who is covered by the privacy rule.
- Describe the information that is protected.
- Apply the general principle for uses and disclosures.
- Identify HIPAA violations.
- List the enforcement and penalties for noncompliance.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with industrial hygiene.
- Identify strategies to control chemical hazards.
- Identify strategies to control biological hazards.
- Identify strategies to control physical hazards.
- Identify strategies to control ergonomic hazards.
Given current OSHA and industry information regarding general industry worksite illnesses, injuries, and/or fatalities, the student will be able to recognize hazards associated with violence in the workplace.
- Define workplace violence.
- Identify consequences of workplace violence.
- Distinguish between types of workplace violence.
- Engage in recordkeeping best practices.
- Identify patient behaviors which could signal impending workplace violence.
- List controls which prevent workplace violence.
- Identify intervention strategies which can prevent or lessen workplace violence.
CareerSafe is an Authorized Training Provider
CareerSafe is an OSHA-Authorized Online Outreach Training Provider. Every student who successfully completes a CareerSafe OSHA 10-Hour course and passes with a 70% or higher will receive an OSHA 10-Hour card as physical proof of the achievement.
All CareerSafe OSHA 10-Hour cards are made with a durable plastic material and are valid for life. Cards that are shipped in a bundle of five (5) or more will have a trackable shipping label. CareerSafe OSHA 10-Hour cards ship within 1-3 weeks of your course completion date, with no additional charge to you. Additionally, students, teachers, or individuals are allowed to order a card re-print within five (5) years of course completion, if the card has been lost or damaged.
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