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8. Personnel Qualifications, Training, and Continuing Education
8. Personnel Qualifications, Training, and Continuing Education
Pages 120-134
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Training and continuing education programs provide an opportunity for management and staff to communicate about workplace hazards, program changes, updated organizational policies and procedures, and emergency procedures. An institution can achieve its OHS objectives only if its employees know the hazards associated with their work; understand how the hazards are controlled through institutional policies, engineering controls, work practices, and PPE; and have sufficient skills to do their work safely and proficiently (NRC 1997~.
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Such policy demonstrates that upper management recognizes the importance of personnel qualifications, has determined an appropriate assurance plan, and has delineated responsibility for the implementation of the plan. Management should determine operationally specific minimal qualifications for all staff and visitors that work directly with the nonhuman primates, their byproducts, housing, holding rooms, equipment, or tissues.
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An assessment of basic skills is often a good place to start in assessing a person's qualifications. Through observation, supervisors can note whether an employee has the basic communication skills necessary to perform the task at hand and whether the employee's reading skills are sufficient for understanding the SOP, organizational policies, and material-safety data sheets applicable to their position.
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, that is, to ensure that safety-related human performance and training discrepancies are identified and that appropriate techniques are used to improve the safety and health of the workforce. The program will do this by providing information to improve knowledge, demonstrating safe work techniques, providing instruction on emergency response, providing information on regulatory controls, providing infor
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124 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OF NONHUMAN PRIMATES Qualifications and Proficiency Assessment Record Name:________________________ Date of initiation: Supervisor: ____________________ State the task involving a nonhuman primate: _________________________ State the steps to the task (reference SOP#) :____________________________ Species of nonhuman primate:________________________________________ Risk Type: (circle all that apply)
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PERSONNEL QUALIFICATIONS, TRAINING, AND CONTINUING EDUCATION 125 Training Progress* : Date Duration Trainer Comments Supervisor's It Number of training sessions and length of time will vary depending on baseline skill and complexity of the procedure.
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Management can demonstrate its commitment to its safety and health training program by funding it appropriately and by visibly supporting the program, its goals, and its objectives. Safety training should begin at each new employee's orientation and progress continuously as more complex tasks are assigned and job responsibilities increase.
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Many OHS professionals have found value in an annual training plan. Upper management, organizational safety committees, supervisors, workers, and safety managers should provide input pertinent to a comprehensive and operationally specific annual training plan.
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A work analysis is accomplished by breaking down a job into the required skills and knowledge. Similarly, a job or task inventory involves breaking down a job and ranking tasks by whether lack of pertinent knowledge or skill can have serious consequences.
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In a research facility that houses nonhuman primates, the functional parts might be animal care and feeding, enrichment, animal health, and technical assistance. Activities associated with animal care and feeding would include cagewashing, animal transfer, material handling (caging, feed, and bedding)
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The involvement of scientists in the development of content for health and safety training is particularly important. Often, employees who routinely care for nonhuman primates are not placed under the direct supervision of the scientist who is responsible for the research project, so there can be gaps in communication of information that is necessary to protect worker health and safety or information that could correct misperceptions about risks associated with the project.
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For substantial learning to occur, learners must be actively involved in the learning process (Bird and Germain 1996~. If the training pertains to humane restraint of an alert adult macaque, it may entail multiple methods, such as classroom instruction, practical exercise of restraint technique with a macaque model, and individual instruction with an animal.
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Supervisors and managers must be knowledgeable about the content of training programs so that they can effectively monitor workplace practices and behavior to ensure adherence to prescribed methods or investigate and mitigate the reasons for .
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The resources required for offering continuing education are often different from those required for training, because of the broad background of the information to be presented. Institutions that use nonhuman primates for research, education, and testing often sponsor continuing education for assistant-technician, technician, and technologist certification examinations, and support veterinarians' preparation for board certification.
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Some training records are required to be retained for specified durations to satisfy federal and state environmental health and safety regulations. Animals experimentally infected with HIV or HBV are included under the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030)
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