This course provides all new and existing employees with a health and safety orientation designed to enable their active participation in Rural Clinics health and safety programs. The information provided to new employees in this course will promote their awareness and understanding of the possible hazards at work, the methods used to control such hazards, evacuation procedures, and general safety concerns.
This course contains an overview of the following information, which is explained in further detail in the Rural Clinics and Community Health Services Safety Plan and All-Hazards Emergency Action Plan:
- General procedures and purpose
- Illness/Injury Reporting
- Office Safety
- Visitors
- Bomb/General Threat
- Suspicious Package
- State Vehicle Operation
- Workplace Violence
- Consumer Behavioral Health Emergency
- Building Lockdown/Shelter-in-Place
- Fire
- Explosions
- Radiological/Chemical Incidents
- Hazardous Materials
- Medical Emergency
- Bloodborne Pathogens (not intended as a replacement for any required standalone Bloodborne Pathogens training)
- Communicable Disease Outbreak/Social Distancing
- Natural Disasters
- Active Shooter
- Civil disorders/terrorism
- After Care /Debriefing