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There may be applications for Level D and some TSDFs who have a Safety Professional on the Staff.  After 25 years of field experience with Respirators, Chemical Warfare Training, and/or Superfund if we support the idea of online training, it is not for everyone there may be some applications for computer literate persons to get an initial overview and only as suplemental training.

WHY?

With respirators reason tells us different, take military operations for instance would you put a Soldier in the field with a gas mask and an M-16 with online training not to mention law enforcement or firefigher personnel; for that matter yourself or employees?  Having talked to former developers of the HAZWOPER standard most of whom are no longer with the OSHA Agency like Mike Moore as 1990 was long ago.  It appears some have forgotten the purpose.  Therefore don't think that was the intent of the original standard for there to be online training for clean-up workers.  We recognize change within the federal agencies to allow the experienced professional to take online training but it should not set a precedence for the private sector laborers, operators, engineers, trades, government officials, others or change the original intent of the standard.  There are interpretations out in the USA by OSHA.  It is the employers responsibility ultimately to determine if training is adequate regardless of who or what methods are used.  We can not advise our valuable clients to allow their employees to be initially trained online or for refreshers of 8 hours.  Experience shows that new teams can not function adequately with just online training and even experienced workers need to demonstrate their skills and the instructor should if available look at their respirators and their knowledge of using it and stress cleaning it and for people to be clean shaven.  Some workers without live training eventually will become complacent.  The other things is the OSHA required critique of safety past to present, describe situationsto improve the same, adequately cover medical surveillance review, and/or rights of workers.  Even some members of management need to hear lectures on preventing discrimination against workers for exercising their rights under the OSHAct.  The interpretations advise against it as do we.  If you want Online Training give me a call I'll discuss it with you and some options.  First, we think you should ask your self or your trainees "Would you bet your life on it that the online training is adequate for your employees to deal IDLH atmospheres and physical stressors. 

At this point we may consider some live training by broadcast with an open teleconference however it is still in trial phase to give an opportunity for open questions to the Instructor.  The Link is below.  More recently through our superior HAZWOPER program we went back to a consortium of trainers and decided to work together with this idea of online training.

Our Policy on online training is that if you do live training you have a better chance to live safely.

WARNING ADDITIONAL TRAINING IS REQUIRED BY OSHA FOR ALL HAZWOPER NEW EMPLOYEES OR WE HEREBY WARN OTHER PERSONS USING ANY ONLINE TRAINING; LIVE TRAINING AND EMPLOYER HAZWOPER TRAINING IS REQUIRED FOR ANY POTENTIAL HAZARDS THAT COULD RESULT IN SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH FROM ANTHING THAT ARE BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL, FIRE OR EXPLOSIONS DANGERS; FAILURE TO FOLLOW THOSE RULES OR YOUR EMPLOYERS SAFETY PROGRAM COULD RESULT IN DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY.

Therefore online training is suplemental to on-going training with your employer or during the course of your profession and work. However, we will train online you agree and have been warned that a competent Industrial Hygienist or other technically qualified person assists you in the total endeavor, so you know how to select and use the safety equipment, to meet the OSHA requirements and get Site Specific Safety training for the hazards at the workplace. We also will consider case by case if you are a documented safety professional, experienced Journeyman or experienced Incident Commander, hospital designated emergency preparedness manager as experts you are then we may let you prepare with some online 40 hour training and then take our live HAZWOPER Train the Trainer instructor professional course.

 

Call for online training (800) 275-8239 we offer many courses. Like

8 HAZWOPER Hour Refresher Course for experienced professionals.

Online Training for Emergency Response in Level A, B, or C is available for reading only generally you must have at least 16 Hours in class hands on there after.  Because it is also near impossible to train new workers for wearing respirators online.