DOT Regulated Medical Waste Management Training
Video Training
Category: Department of Transportation & HAZMAT
Title: DOT Regulated Medical Waste Management Training
Presenter: Cathy Montgomery, RN, President of Excellentia Advisory Group
Cathy has over 20 years of experience in healthcare services management. During her position as Regional Manager for Barnes Hospital, Cathy oversaw several physician practices. As Regional Administrator for Novamed, she oversaw operations of the physician practices, as well as the ambulatory surgery centers and optical shops in the Metro St. Louis and Illinois areas. Under her direction, a state-of-the-art refractive surgery center was also designed and opened in St. Louis, MO.
Cathy is Founder and President of Excellentia Advisory Group, a consulting and development company serving both the surgical industry through ASC’s as well as surgical hospitals and office-based surgical practices. Cathy’s passion has been teaching compliance to CMS Conditions of Coverage, AAAHC accreditation, and assisting ASCs with their survey readiness.
Description:
If you have regulated medical waste at your facility (sharps containers!), there is a training requirement for your staff you may be missing. The Department of Transportation, DOT, requires any person who performs pre-transportation functions for the shipment of medical waste, such as packaging, marking, completion of shipping papers and/or supervision of the previously mentioned activities to have specific training within 90 days of hire and then every 3 years.
This includes employees at hospitals, medical practices, ambulatory surgery centers, or other facilities with sharp collection or other types of medical waste that is transported off site. Fines can accumulate quickly as they will be levied per employee with absent training and multiplied daily. While the DOT doesn’t audit for this training, an incident that results in discovery could be very costly. This training course will quickly bring you into compliance. While it is possible your facility covered this training during an OSHA presentation, it is unlikely. The DOT has some very specific requirements under their regulations. The DOT reports more than one-third of the Department’s enforcement actions pertaining to violations of hazardous materials transportation regulations involve the failure of employers to provide training or maintain test records.
This presentation will provide you the rules, the actual training and the required certificate of completion of the training. You as the employer will need to test your employee, keep records and maintain training schedules for all employees. While we cannot do that part for you, this session will outline exactly what you need and give you some tools to help comply.
Viewing time: 58 minutes; This presentation is worth 1 Contact Hour of continuing Education1
Note-taking version of this PowerPoint Presentation. CLICK HERE to download.
Other handouts associated with this presentation can be downloaded by selecting/clicking:
1. DOT Medical Waste Training Test Answer Sheet
2. DOT Medical Waste Training Test
7. Medical Waste Certificate Request Form
1Once you and any/all staff have reviewed this presentation, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation worth 1.0 Credit Hours of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates, using the Certificate Request Form found in the link below. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last names, position title (RN ,BSN, etc.), license numbers (if professionals) and date of completion.
* Excellentia Advisory Group LLC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 15481: Issue Date: 4/6/2010;
CLICK HERE for Certificate Request Form
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