OSHA for healthcare training courses

Curated library of OSHA training courses for healthcare organizations of any size and specialty.

We developed our library of engaging and interactive OSHA training courses for healthcare organizations of any specialty and size.  Contact us to create a course bundle to train your staff focused on the hazards your employees face in the workplace.  Our courses can be delivered and managed on your current LMS, or you can use our enterprise level Workplace LMS to deliver and manage your training.

Combine these OSHA training courses along with our HIPAA Privacy & Security, Medicare Fraud & Abuse, and HR/EEO anti-harassment courses to create your own training bundle and a fully compliant workplace.

Deliver these courses on our WorkPlace LMS or your own LMS.

Course Features and Benefits

Our interactive and engaging courses contain clear objectives and feature generative AI for video and audio narration to promote learner engagement and interactivity.  The courses feature bookmarking and include non-graded knowledge checks, scenarios and/or exercises that reinforce learning engagement and retention.  Course navigation is restricted, so learners are directed through the courses to ensure all information is presented for course completion.  Each course includes an end of course assessment that randomly presents 10 questions from a test question bank and has an 80% minimum passing score.  Learners have unlimited opportunities to pass the assessment before exiting the courses to achieve a completed passed status.

View HR/EEO course descriptions and objectives below.

Combine these HR/EEO and anti-harassment training courses along with our HIPAA Privacy & Security, Medicare Fraud & Abuse, and OSHA healthcare training to create your own training bundle and a fully compliant workplace.

OSHA training for Healthcare courses

Back injuries, often from poor lifting techniques, are the most common type of back care ergonomics training course occupational injury. In this lesson you will learn about muscle injury caused by repetitive stress, ways to minimize accidents and injuries and tips on how to arrange your work station to avoid ergonomic injuries. This course is designed to bring awareness of the risks of back injuries and other MSDs in the workplace and to provide an overview of ergonomic and musculoskeletal principles and practical information on risk factors and prevention.

Handling, storing and disposing of biohazardous waste that is generally defined as any waste contaminated with potentially infectious blood, body fluids, or other material that has the risk of transmitting infection requires special procedures. This includes hazardous waste that is generated in connection with the treatment, diagnosis, or immunization of humans or animals, as well as any research that pertains to medical services or biological testing. Biohazardous or medical hazardous waste is also called infectious medical waste, red bag waste, infectious waste, regulated medical waste, and other similar names. This course identifies the types and sources of hazardous waste and explains safe handling, storage and proper packaging and disposal procedures and identifies the regulatory agencies overseeing safe biohazardous waste storage, handling and disposal.

Due to the nature of their jobs, healthcare workers are at high risk for exposure to bloodborne pathogens. This bloodborne pathogens training course covers the OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) requirements for minimizing your exposure to bloodborne pathogens through the use of standard precautions such as protective clothing and equipment, the appropriate handling of sharp items and the disposal of potentially infectious waste. This course introduces the student to bloodborne pathogens, how to reduce the risk of exposure and precautionary practices that are recommended by OSHA and CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Our bloodborne pathogens training course is a must for anyone who has contact with infectious or potentially infectious bodily fluids and materials.

The healthcare industry is a high-risk industry to the workers it employs, particularly when it comes to chemical use. The use of chemicals is widespread in healthcare and includes: cleaning agents, disinfecting and sterilizing agents, laboratory chemicals, medical gases, anesthetic agents, and cytotoxic drugs and pharmaceutical substances. If improperly used, handled, or stored, chemicals can cause serious harm to healthcare workers and patients. Because of these risks, it is important that healthcare workers receive training in chemical safety to ensure they work safely with chemicals. This chemical safety training course informs healthcare workers on chemical hazards and how to safely use, store and handle chemicals.

Gases for medical use are prescription drugs that must be carefully used, moved, and stored per regulations and guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National Fire Protection Association, and the Food and Drug Administration. Ignoring these regulations and guidelines can lead to the serious injury or death of employees and patients, as well as destruction of property, fire or explosion. This compressed gas safety training course informs healthcare workers about the uses, hazards and safe use, handling and storage of compressed gases.

Electricity is fundamental in the delivery of many healthcare related services. Yet for each of these examples; there are numerous examples of where electricity is dangerous and even life threatening in the healthcare setting. Electrical accidents can involve enough current to shock or even kill you and recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports electrical burns send 2,000 workers to burn centers each year and in total there are roughly 4,000 non-disabling and 3,600 disabling injuries annually from work with electricity. With these alarming statistics it is important that employees receive electrical safety training to help prevent accidental injuries.

This electrical safety training course provides a basic understanding of electricity, how to identify electrical hazards in the workplace, safe work practices, safety tips to reduce your potential for electric shock, and how to respond to an emergency situation involving electricity. The goal of this course is to educate workers on the hazards of electricity in the healthcare environment as well as safe electrical work practices.

The actions taken in the initial minutes of an emergency situation are critical and an effective emergency response plan provides the guidance for employees to take swift action to evacuate, shelter or lockdown that can save lives. When an emergency happens, healthcare employers must be prepared to keep their staff, patients, and visitors safe. Employers should implement and follow an Emergency Response Plan or ERP to ensure they are prepared to take the important actions in the initial minutes of an emergency.  This course describes the purpose and key elements of an emergency response plan, details the types of emergencies that can occur and provides the life-saving actions employees need to know to protect themselves, patients and visitors.

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI), and other illnesses can easily be transmitted in healthcare facilities. Doctors’ offices and other outpatient facilities are vulnerable to contamination. Unlike hospitals and hospital rooms, a clinic doesn’t have a separate and unique exam room for each patient, or a dedicated space designated to a single patient. Instead, care is provided to multiple patients a day, often in quick succession, in an exam room. This makes contamination of surfaces and transmission of infectious agents highly likely. This course focuses on ways to control contamination and transmission of infectious diseases in the exam rooms of clinics, doctors’ offices, and outpatient facilities.

“Fire in a commercial office space, plant or healthcare facility places the lives of employees, visitors and patients in great danger. This course covers the precautions to take to prevent fires, how to protect yourself, other staff, visitors and patients from fire and smoke, how to respond in a fire emergency, and how to use a portable fire extinguisher. This course addresses OSHA’s general industry standards for fire safety and emergency evacuation.  The goal of this course is to provide an overview of fire suppression systems, including the use of fire extinguishers, and emergency evacuation plans.

The National Fire Protection Association or NFPA, estimates around 1,400 fires occur annually in which flammable or combustible liquids first were ignited and the direct property damage from these fires is approximately $76 million dollars each year. These fires occurred in all types of workplaces and locations, including institutional, educational, utility, defense or laboratory settings and manufacturing, processing, mercantile or business and storage locations. This course gives workers the knowledge they need to avoid accidental fires and explosions and informs them about the hazards and safe use, handling and storage of flammable and combustible liquids.

As one of the most common industrial chemicals in use today, Formaldehyde is widely used as an industrial fungicide, germicide and disinfectant. It’s also commonly used as a preservative in medical laboratories and mortuaries. Because it is estimated that over four million people work with formaldehyde, your employees need formaldehyde safety training to educate them on its uses and dangers, as well as safe work practices.

Formaldehyde is a colorless, strong-smelling gas often existing in water-based solutions and can be found in many compounds, coatings and materials including chemical compounds, fiberboard and plywood.

Our formaldehyde training covers the routes of exposure, health effects and symptoms of formaldehyde exposure, exposure limits and medical surveillance, response to exposures and spills and safe work practices and other forms of hazard control.

Hand hygiene plays a critical role in infection control in healthcare settings. Right now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, handwashing is one the most effective ways to prevent the spread of the virus and avoid getting others sick. This hand hygiene training course includes an overview of the recommended practices for hand antisepsis as outlined by CDC, WHO, OSHA and JCAHO by detailing when to use proper hand hygiene. As well it details proper hand hygiene techniques and differentiating between the different uses of soap and water handwashing, antibacterial soap and alcohol based handrubs.

“All workers, healthcare, general industry, construction and maritime workers who are exposed to, work around or work with hazardous chemicals must receive hazard communication training. This course provides a detailed overview OSHA’s hazard communication standard and includes information on the incorporation of GHS into the standard. The revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires that workers be re- trained within two years of the publication of the final rule to facilitate recognition and understanding of the new labels and safety data sheets. OSHA estimates that the revised HCS will result in the prevention of 43 fatalities and 585 injuries and illnesses (318 non-lost-workday injuries and illnesses, 203 lost-workday injuries and illnesses, and 64 chronic illnesses) annually. The monetized value of this reduction in occupational risks is an estimated $250 million a year on an annualized basis.
Goal: To provide an overview OSHA’s hazard communication standard, or ‘right to know’ standard and outline how changes to the standard have aligned HCS with the provisions of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).

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“An incident is any event that affects patient, employee, visitor or vendor safety. These incidents can fall into three general categories or levels of harm including harmful, no-harm and near miss. In most healthcare facilities, injuries, illnesses, patient complaints, medication errors, equipment failure, adverse reactions to drugs or treatments, or errors in patient care will fall into one of the three levels and must be reported. Conducting thorough and accurate Incident reporting is important to understand the root cause of why an accident happened and to work to prevent or reduce the chance of it happening again.
This incident report training course provides the information employees need to understand what incidents to report and why it is important to conduct incident reporting. It also presents the information required to be included in an incident report and includes the “do’s” and “don’ts” of completing an incident report.”

OSHA training for Healthcare courses

Healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, are infections that people acquire while they are receiving treatment for another condition in a healthcare setting. HAIs can be acquired anywhere healthcare is delivered, including inpatient acute care hospitals, outpatient settings such as ambulatory surgical centers and end-stage renal disease facilities, and long-term care facilities such as nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. HAIs may be caused by any infectious agent, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, as well as other less common types of pathogens.

This infection control training course provides the information healthcare workers can use to prevent or reduce the spread of infection and the resulting illnesses and deaths.

More than 500,000 workers are employed in laboratories in the U.S. The laboratory environment can be a hazardous place to work. Laboratory work requires knowledge, skill, and attention to detail as workers are exposed to numerous potential hazards including chemical, biological, physical and radioactive hazards, as well as musculoskeletal stresses. Employees need to understand each hazard and take proper precautions to protect themselves and co-workers at all times. The purpose of this online laboratory safety training course is to teach employees lab safety requirements to ensure that they know how to prevent accidents, injuries, and illness on the job. By completing this course learners will be able to understand the Chemical Hygiene Plan, identify laboratory hazards, take proper precautions to protect themselves, and act effectively in an emergency.

Lasers are used in a variety of healthcare settings and applications including: surgical and dental procedures; ophthalmological and dermatological procedures, and in plastic surgery. Understanding how lasers work, their hazards and how to work safely with them, will protect you, your coworkers, patients and clients. This course educates healthcare workers about the risks associated with laser use in the workplace and ways to safely work with lasers and protect themselves, co-workers and patients.

Allergy to latex was first recognized in the late 1970s. Since then, it has become a major health concern as an increased number of people in the workplace are affected. Healthcare workers exposed to latex gloves or medical products containing latex are especially at risk. It is estimated that 8-12 percent of healthcare workers are latex sensitive, with reactions ranging from irritant contact dermatitis to immediate, possibly life-threatening, sensitivity. This course informs healthcare workers about products and practices that can trigger a latex allergy and how to lessen the chance of an allergic reaction.

Lockout/Tagout is one of the Top 10 “Most Serious Violations” and Top 10 “Most Often Cited Violations,” according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration resulting in workplace injuries and lost work time. OSHA holds employers responsible to make sure your employees are trained on the safe control of hazardous energy to help avoid these injuries. This general industry online training course covers the OSHA Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) standard.

This course is for employees who perform maintenance or repair work on machinery and equipment and as a result are exposed to injuries from the unexpected energization, startup, or release of stored energy in the equipment. Topics covered include the definition and common types of hazardous energy, the components of an employer’s energy control program, the six steps of lockout/tagout, group LOTO, LOTO responsibilities during shift changes, the “Fatal Five” causes of LOTO preventable injuries and the responsibilities and functions of Authorized Employees, Affected Employees, and Other Employees as defined by OSHA.

Abuse and neglect can happen to any patient; however, elderly and mentally or physically disabled patients are at a higher risk, as are those in long-term care facilities. It is not known for certain how many patients suffer or have suffered from abuse because many cases go unreported and unrecognized. Often, healthcare professionals miss the signs of patient abuse because they haven’t had adequate training on detecting abuse. This course provides the information healthcare workers need recognize patient abuse and neglect and how to prevent it from happening.

Healthcare providers and healthcare workers have a responsibility to provide care to patients in need. Just as important as the physical care is making sure providers and workers abide by and protect the rights, guaranteed by law, patients have. This course informs healthcare workers on patient rights so they are able to identify and protect against any violation of those rights.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is not a luxury, nor an optional convenience. PPE provides a barrier against physical, chemical, radiological, and biological hazards for healthcare staff. PPE is designed to help prevent workers from exposure to a variety of hazards including, but not limited to, bloodborne pathogens, infectious diseases, ergonomic injuries, splashes, spills, punctures, and cuts. This personal protective equipment training course covers the types of PPE used in healthcare settings, its requirements and limitations and also teaches the learner how to properly don, doff, maintain and dispose of contaminated PPE.

Needlestick injury or NSI is an accidental percutaneous piercing wound caused by a contaminated sharps instrument, usually a hollow-bore needle from a syringe, and is one of the most frequent routes of transmission in occupationally acquired blood-borne infections. Needlestick injuries are a serious hazard and can expose you to over 20 types of infectious bloodborne pathogens, or BBPs. The most serious pathogens are Hepatitis B or HBV, Hepatitis C or HCV, and the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. This course informs workers on the hazards and prevention strategies of working with needles during patient care and other healthcare settings.

More assaults occur in the healthcare and social service industries than in any other. This course addresses workplace violence in healthcare settings and offers ways to prevent and minimize the threat of workplace violence in healthcare settings as well as practical ways to deal violent incidents should one occur. This course addresses workplace violence in healthcare settings and offers ways to prevent and minimize the threat of workplace violence in healthcare settings as well as practical ways to deal with violent incidents should one occur. The purpose of this course is to give healthcare providers information about workplace violence and workplace violence prevention training as outlined by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA).

Healthcare workers face possible radiation exposure from a variety of sources including: therapeutic radiation used to treat diseases like cancer; radiation from external beams, such as x-rays, mammograms and during external beam therapy; radiation used in nuclear medicine procedures; and radiation sources in lab environments and pharmaceutical work. This course informs healthcare workers on the sources and hazards of radiation in the workplace and safe work practices for radiation safety.

Nurses, aids, physical therapists, emergency workers, clinic staff and other healthcare workers all face the hazards associated with patient lifting and handling. In fact, the single greatest risk factor for overexertion injuries in healthcare workers is the manual lifting, moving and repositioning of patients, residents or clients. This course informs healthcare workers on safe and proper patient handling techniques in order to reduce and prevent injuries to workers and patients.

This shipping for infectious substances training course is designed for any employee who performs pre-transportation functions for shipping infectious substances, such as packaging, marking, labeling, completion of shipping papers, or supervises employees who perform these activities. This includes doctors, nurses and other medical professionals and employees at hospitals, colleges, pharmaceutical companies, medical clinics or offices, laboratories, research facilities, or other facilities that have diagnostic specimens or samples containing live cultures of pathogenic organisms.

The U.S. DOT requires all hazmat employees receive general awareness, security awareness, and function-specific training (49 CFR 172.704). Air shippers must also comply with additional regulatory mandates provided in the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. With enforcement and fines for non-compliance on the rise, it is critical that shippers of infectious substances are fully trained in the regulations. This course covers the fundamentals of shipping infectious substances and diagnostic specimens. The course encompasses all of the activities which must be addressed when preparing a hazardous material for shipment. This course has been updated to include recent changes to the regulations, including HM-215D. The course also covers shipments containing dry ice.

Slips, trips or falls are the number one cause of work-related accidents with over 200,000 accidents reported each year. They are also the cause of over 700 deaths annually, accounting for 15% of all workplace fatalities, second only to motor vehicle deaths. This course provides the causes of slips, trips and falls and the simple, practical steps that can be taken by both employers and employees to greatly reduce and often eliminate hazards.

This course addresses the risks, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis in hospitals and other medical facilities. It is designed to educate healthcare personnel about the risks, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis in order to increase safety in hospitals and other medical facilities. It will also provide information about the work practices recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that are designed to help prevent transmission of the disease.

Why Take OSHA Training?

Healthcare organizations are especially liable to safety and health-related concerns. In order to protect your employees, proper training is crucial, not just upon hire but throughout their careers. Refresher training on OSHA healthcare regulations and standards is highly suggested by many safety experts and can help minimize work-days lost to job-related injuries, illnesses and disabilities. Keep your company and employees out of risk with online OSHA training for healthcare professionals.

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What Are OSHA Regulations?

OSHA holds standards and regulations in the following areas:

  • Hazard Communications
  • Bloodborne Pathogens
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Fire Safety
  • Emergency Response
  • And More
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How Often Should Employees Receive OHSA Training?

It is highly recommended that healthcare employees receive annual OSHA healthcare training. While completion cards don’t expire, the healthcare industry is one of the most dangerous industries when it comes to safety and health risks. Industry leaders focus on ensuring a safe work environment through effective and consistent training.

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What Are the Consequences of Non-Compliance with OSHA Healthcare Regulations?

When an employer fails to comply with OSHA healthcare regulations, the employer has prior knowledge of existing hazards that could impact employees’ health or safety and chooses to do nothing to correct it. Possible penalties include being fined and facing jail time.

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