OSHA has announced a new "Disaster Site Worker Outreach Training Program" to train workers who provide support in emergency response and recovery operations at disaster sites. OSHA also wants to raise awareness that pre-incident training is essential for ensuring disaster site worker safety and health.
The new program includes a 16-hour Disaster Site Worker Course that emphasizes the incident command system, hazard awareness, personal protective equipment (including the use of air-purifying respirators), and decontamination. The course will be taught by experienced construction safety and health trainers who have successfully completed the "train-the-trainer" course.