Compliance training

Bloodborne pathogens training for your staff.

Harvest customers get bloodborne pathogens training, along with OSHA and HIPAA courses, in the same client portal as their pickup records and invoices. It comes with your medical waste service.

What OSHA requires

OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard requires employers to train every employee who could be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials on the job. Training happens when someone is first assigned to that work and at least once a year after that. It has to be free to the employee and given during working hours, and training records are kept for three years.

The standard also requires a chance to ask questions of the person conducting the training, so plan for that alongside any online course.

How it works with Harvest

1. Your staff log in to your client portal, the same one that holds your manifests and invoices.
2. They take short, self-paced video lessons. Each lesson ends with a quiz.
3. Each year after, there is a refresher. The shorter Bloodborne Pathogens Refresher course is built for the yearly training.

Courses for medical offices

Bloodborne pathogens training is one of more than 35 courses in the portal. The ones medical and dental offices use most:

• Bloodborne Pathogens for Healthcare, and the Bloodborne Pathogens Refresher
• Sharps Safety, and Preventing Needlesticks and Other Sharps Injuries
• Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Hand Hygiene, and Introduction to Infection Control
• Medical Waste Handling and Segregation for Healthcare
• HIPAA, HITECH, and the Omnibus Final Rule
• Hazard Communication Standard/GHS
• Ergonomics and Injury Prevention for Dental Practices

Opening a new office?

Training is part of getting ready to see patients. Set up medical waste pickup before you open, and your staff can take their courses in the same portal.

Who it's for

Medical and dental offices, veterinary practices, clinics, surgery centers, labs, and hospital systems we serve.

Common questions

Is the training included?

Yes. Compliance courses come with Harvest medical waste service, in the client portal you already use.

Can staff take it online?

Yes. Courses run in the online client portal, so staff can take them from any computer.

What else is in the portal?

A manifest for every medical waste pickup, a certificate of destruction for every shredding job, and your invoices.

Source: OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2) and (h)(2). Not legal advice.