{"id":852,"date":"2020-08-26T12:31:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/?page_id=852"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:09:04","slug":"occupational-health-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/occupational-health-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Occupational Health Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The University of Georgia considers occupational health training to be a key component in preventative healthcare for research personnel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Training for those working with Human Bloodborne Pathogens<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bloodborne pathogens are defined as unscreened human blood, body fluids, tissues or cells. This definition includes samples from individuals that are presumed healthy. It also includes tissues or cells that are purchased from vendors, which have not been specifically screened for human infectious disease agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Online training: <a href=\"https:\/\/pep.uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>UGA Right to Know: Bloodborne Pathogens Training via PEP<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mandatory for those working with Human bloodborne pathogens and recommended for those working with Nonhuman Primate samples.\u00a0 Search for &#8220;UGA Right to Know: Bloodborne Pathogens&#8221; in PEP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bloodborne Pathogen Training must be repeated annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Training for those using Respirators<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">Respirators are vital personal protective equipment but they cannot operate effectively and provide adequate protection with the participant having a thorough understanding of respirator use and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>For those wearing tight-fitted respirators (e.g. N95, elastomeric respirator):<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Respiratory Protection Training&#8221; can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/pep.uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PEP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>For those wearing Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR):<\/strong><br \/>\nTraining through the Office of Biosafety at <a href=\"mailto:biosfty@uga.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biosfty@uga.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Recommended Training for Animal Researchers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Laboratory Animal Allergy (available on the AALAS Learning Library through <a href=\"https:\/\/pep.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PEP<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research Animal (available on the AALAS Learning Library through <a href=\"https:\/\/pep.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PEP<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The University of Georgia considers occupational health training to be a key component in preventative healthcare for research personnel. Training for those working with Human Bloodborne Pathogens Bloodborne pathogens are defined as unscreened human blood, body fluids, tissues or cells. This definition includes samples from individuals that are presumed healthy. It also includes tissues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/integrity-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}