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Training:

Recurring Classroom Training Programs: 

CPR/First Aid/AED  Contact Mr Daron White (x1746) or Ms Ester A Chalmers (x1743) to reserve a slot in the class and request more details.  EHS can also provide to groups when requested to expedite training for certain areas.

Defensive Driver/Travel Safety/golf cart Training   (required prior to operating State vehicles and every 24 months when transporting students) Held in Harrington Science Building, Room 101, from 0800-1200. Call Mr. Daron White (x1746) to reserve a seat.  For large enough group will do special training just for your group or Department.

Introduction To Laboratory Safety   Required for all state and student employees working in any PVAMU laboratory. Contact Ms Ester A. Chalmers (x1743) for additional information or reserve a spot in the class.

 

Other Training Options / Many can be done Online

  • Forklift Safety
  • Hazard Communication (required annually for anyone using hazardous materials)
  • Blood Borne Pathogen (required annually for health care, custodial and certain maintenance workers) 
  • Hearing Conservation
  • Farm Equipment Safety (required for all farm workers)
  • Initial Hazardous Waste Accumulation
  • Confined Space Entry
  • Housekeeping Safety
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Student Housing Fire Survival, “Get Out & Stay Alive”
  • Fire Extinguisher
  • Back Injury Prevention

Training Videos Available for your section safety meetings:

  • “Food Safety is No Mystery” Training program for Food Service Workers, 34 min
  • “Ready to Respond” Produced by University of Maryland, 1999, 12:25 min
  • “Get Out and Stay Alive” 16:08 minutes
  • “Controlling Your Risks, HIV in the Research Laboratory” Produced by Howard Hughes
    Medical Institute, 1994, 30 minutes
  • “Maxiforce Air Bags: use, Care maintenance” 30 minutes
  • “Understanding the Asbestos Hazardous” 9 minutes
  • “Hazardous Material Awareness” Part II, US DOE Transportation of Radioactive
    & Other Hazardous Material, 1989,   21:55 min
  • “Charlie’s Last Day” Fire Safety on Campus, produced by Clemson University
  • “What Do We Have Here?” Underground Storage Tanks
  • “Buckle Up America 99 Mobilization” 12:05 minutes
  • “Aerial Apparatus Driving Techniques Program #1”, 1991, 15:16 min
  • “Operating Telescoping & Articulating Aerial Equipment:  1992, 19:08 minutes
  • “Positioning Aerial Apparatus” 1993, 17:15 minutes
  • “Maintenance & Inspection of Aerial Apparatus”, 1991, 16:11 minutes
  • “Centrifugation Hazards”, Produced by Howard Hughes Medical Inst, 9 minutes
  • “Hazard Communications, Understanding Labels & MSDS” 16:41

*Check back often since we are always adding to our Inventory*

Training Links

Environmental Virtual Campus

The Environmental Virtual Campus (EVC), conceived by MIT and the EPA, helps colleges and universities understand how they can achieve compliance through a unique, interactive Web site that demonstrates environmental regulatory requirements for a typical research university.

http://www.c2e2.org/evc/