Hospital and Emergency Medical Services Response to Hazardous Materialsor Acts of Terrorism

[Harvard Health Professional Training <contedu@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Scholarships available - the only course of its kind in Massachusetts!



Protect your patients and medical team with the essentials of managing medical 

emergencies at:



Hospital and Emergency Medical Services Response 

to Hazardous Materials or Acts of Terrorism 

March 18, 2005

Harvard School of Public Health

Boston, Massachusetts



Prepare yourself, your staff, and your facility for the increasing potential 

need to respond to hazardous materials exposures and acts of terrorism. The 

wide range of hospital staff including emergency physicians, nurses, support 

staff and hospital administrators as well as EMTs, first responders and public 

health officials will all find this course pertinent in identifying, 

interpreting, and managing the complex legal and technical compliance 

implications.



Hospital and Emergency Medical Services Response to Hazardous Materials or 

Acts of Terrorism covers the OSHA competency test requirement, the Hospital 

Incident Command System and Incident Command System, legalities of issues 

relevant to hazardous materials (including SARA Title III and Homeland Defense 

Hospital Response), technicalities of transportation and storage of hazardous 

materials from real-life global experience, techniques to safeguard against 

contamination, and much more.



For more information, visit: www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/EMSR.shtml

or call (617) 384-8692.



Please be sure to mention your Reference Code: EMS05-RAD in all 

correspondence.

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