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SCMIT offers free, online training

​SCMIT is pleased to provide a new resource for its members – free, online training. Provided through SCMIT’s reinsurer, Safety National, the training is self-paced and available to all employees of SCMIT members. Training includes OSHA compliance topics, defensive driving and safety issues.

There are 100 courses available, free of charge. Please review the following list for some of the available courses.

  • Accident Investigation
  • Back Injury Prevention
  • Bloodborne Pathogens
  • Confined Space: Permit-Required
  • Disaster Readiness
  • Drug Testing Awareness
  • Employee Safety Orientation
  • Energized Electrical Work Permit (NFPA 70E)
  • Hazard Recognition
  • Introduction to OSHA
  • OSHA Recordkeeping
  • Sexual Harassment: What Supervisors Need to Know
  • Street Smart: Driving Skills
  • Workplace Violence: Prevent the Threat

Each course has a series of lessons with both a video and interactive element. Each lesson ends with a quiz that the student must pass with 100 percent score. Students may attempt the quiz multiple times until they get the required score. Once the student successfully completes all the lessons, he will receive a certificate of completion for his training record.

To sign up for this resource, contact Amy Lindler, member services manager, at alindler@masc.sc or 803.933.1271. She will assign a username and password and enroll the student into the system. The student will receive an e-mail with login information and access to the courses.

For a listing of courses and course outlines, visit www.safetynational.com.

 

​Outline of Bloodborne Pathogens Course

Understanding bloodborne pathogens

  • Develop a basic understanding of what are Bloodborne pathogens.
  • Explain what is a Bloodborne pathogen
  • Identify the three Bloodborne pathogens of most concern in the workplace
  • Know the symptoms of, and differences between, those three pathogens

Modes of transmission

  • Learn how Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV are transmitted
  • Study the modes of transmission
  • Learn your risk of infection from a needle stick
  • Identify situations in which you can and cannot be infected

Best practices

  • Learn best practices you can use to control your exposure to Bloodborne pathogens, including the importance of taking preventive measures
  • Universal precautions
  • Proper hygiene
  • Proper handling of sharps and other contaminated material
    Spill cleanup procedures
  • Signs, labels and color coding

Personal protective equipment

  • Discover the importance of PPE
  • Learn proper PPE to wear for the situation
  • Hear guidelines for safe use and care

Exposure procedures

  • Study what to do when an
    exposure occurs
  • Hepatitis B vaccine