Onsite Decon Training

Awareness Level Training | Operations Level Training | Instructor Development Training | Refresher Course

Awareness Level Training

Awareness Level decon training is required by OSHA for hospital personnel who may encounter a contaminated patient or be called upon to support the hospital’s Decon Team. This includes security personnel, decon area set-up crew, triage staff, clinicians, clerks, and others associated with the decontamination process. DQE’s Awareness Level training fulfills OSHA requirements and prepares staff to properly handle decon incidents.

Training Topics

• Hazardous material and contamination recognition, identification, and response
• Emergency Decontamination Operation Plan activation and notification
• Decontamination and personal protective equipment
• Agent identification using various informational resources
• Pertinent regulatory requirements for staff safety and patient decontamination
• Overview of an emergency decontamination operation

Course Information

Duration: 4 hours
Class Size: Maximum of 50
Classes available per day: 2
Class Location: Onsite at the client hospital

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Operations Level Training

Operations Level training is required by OSHA for hospital personnel who are expected to decontaminate victims or handle them before they are thoroughly decontaminated.

DQE’s comprehensive Operations Level training program prepares hospital staff to quickly and efficiently recognize, receive, and treat exposed and contaminated patients. The program combines lecture, case studies, facilitated discussion, and hands-on skill training to educate and prepare attendees to respond appropriately to the many nuances associated with an emergency decontamination operation.

Training Topics

• Recognition, notification and activation procedures
• Decon area setup
• Donning and doffing personal protective equipment
• Decontamination procedures
• Incident management, communication, personnel roles and responsibilities
• Small scale and multiple casualty incidents
• Program implementation and sustainment

Course information

Duration: 1 or 2 days (based on class size), 8 hours per day
Class Size: 6 – 25
Class Location: Onsite at the client hospital

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Instructor Development Training

The DQE Instructor Development Course is designed for hospitals who desire to be self-sufficient in their ability to provide ongoing decontamination and hazardous materials response training to their staff. Course participants need to have completed DQE's 2-day, on-site Operations Level course within the past 12 months and must be familiar with their hospital's Emergency Decontamination Operations Plan and all associated decontamination and personal protective equipment.

Training Topics

• Recognition, notification and activation procedures for an Emergency Decontamination Operation
• Decon Team roles and responsibilities, the use of incident management, and documentation requirements
• Setup and dismantling of a decontamination corridor
• Donning and doffing chemical protective clothing
• Selection and use of respiratory protection
• Decontamination procedures for ambulatory, semi- and non-ambulatory patients
• Proper procedures for managing a multiple casualty HazMat incident
• Product identification using various reference materials and resources
• Clean up objectives after an Emergency Decontamination Operation

Course Information

Duration: 6-8 hours
Class size: Maximum of 5
Class Location: Onsite at the client hospital

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Refresher Course

DQE’s Refresher Course is for Decon Team members previously certified to the Operations Level to help them sustain skills, refresh their knowledge base, participate in a functional exercise, and meet OSHA’s annual retraining requirements.

Training Topics

• Review of the hospital’s Emergency Decontamination Operation Plan, including activation and termination procedures
• Appraisal of the various Decon Team positions and responsibilities with role playing opportunities
• Practical review of how to set up and safely utilize the decontamination area
• Demonstration on how to set up a decontamination corridor and the proper application of personal protective equipment
• Application of the incident command system to an Emergency Decontamination Operation
• Facilitated, full-scale decontamination exercise

Course Information

Duration: 8-hours
Class Size: 10 – 25
Class Location: Onsite at the client hospital

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