06/05/2026
By Annemieke Tapp
This 1-day, no-cost Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 7.5-hour Disaster Site Worker course is intended to provide necessary training to workers who provide skilled support (e.g. utility, demolition, debris removal, or heavy equipment operation) or clean-up services in response to natural and human-caused disasters.
This training provides awareness about:
- how to identify and mitigate safety and health hazards disaster site workers may encounter
- the importance and proper use of respiratory and other personal protective equipment (PPE)
- decontamination procedures that may be used to control/reduce the hazards
- the Incident Command System and the National Response Framework
- communication issues during and after a disaster
- the effects of traumatic incident stress that can result from disaster site working conditions and measures to reduce this stress.
Participants will receive an OSHA card for completing this course.
Credits: 0.75 CEUs/TCH
Register for the course on the TNEC website.