Introduction to Personal Protective Measures for Biological Events: PER 320

On January 28, 2015 the Region 7 Healthcare Coalition hosted a Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) course at the University Center in Gaylord that was brought to four sites in Michigan by the Michigan State Police and the Office of Public Health Preparedness.  

The Gaylord location had a full class with thirty two participants from varied disciplines including: tribal, Dept. of Agriculture, health departments, EMS, hospitals, emergency management, R7 mobile medical field team and the MI-VDF.  Each participant received a comprehensive overview on biological threats followed by an in depth discussion on personal protective equipment (PPE) donning and doffing as well as decontamination.  The hands on part of the course allowed each participant to don and doff PPE and work a simulated decontamination line. The benefit of this training is each participant is now able to take the information they learned back to their agencies and reinforce the excellent PPE training they are already conducting.