With more than 20 years of experience, the University of Minnesota provides hands-on training and continuing education for professionals in the field. We provide training for waste site workers, engineers, industrial hygienists, emergency management professionals, police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and other health and safety professionals.
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The 2025-26 courses have been posted and are open for registration. Reserve your spot today!
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Contract Course Early Bird Pricing
Pay in advance on/before training date and receive a discounted fee for your company. Payment after 30 business days following course delivery will be charged a late fee.
UPCOMING COURSES
This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual refresher training for individuals who have previously completed 24-hour Emergency Response Operations or 40-hour Emergency Response Technician. This course offers 7 Continuing Education Hours. This is an in person course. This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual refresher training for individuals who have previously completed the 24- or 40-hour Waste Site Worker Training. This course offers 7 Continuing Education Hours. This is an online course. This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual refresher training for individuals who have previously completed 24-hour Emergency Response Operations or 40-hour Emergency Response Technician. This course offers 7 Continuing Education Hours. This is an online course. The 40-hour technician level training includes the operations level training plus additional lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experience. This course is designed to provide training required by OSHA 1910.120 to respond to releases with the purpose of stopping the release. This course offers 40 Continuing Education Hours. NOTE: All participants in the 40-hour course are required to have a physician complete a medical evaluation and clearance form prior to the course. The 24-Hour course consists of three days of lectures, discussions, classroom demonstrations, small group exercises, and hands-on training. This Operations Level course is designed to provide training required by OSHA 1910.120 to respond to hazardous substance releases with the purpose of protecting persons, property, and the environment from the effects of the release and to contain the release. Emphasis will be placed on responding in a defensive manner without actually trying to stop the release. This course offers 24 Continuing Education Hours. This is an online course. This course is designed to meet the OSHA requirement for annual refresher training for individuals who have previously completed the 24- or 40-hour Waste Site Worker Training. This course offers 7 Continuing Education Hours. This is an online course. COST: $275
Topics include: incident review, hazard recognition/evaluation/control review, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, respiratory protection, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.REGISTER NOW
COST: $275
Topics include: incident review, hazard recognition/evaluation/control review, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, respiratory protection, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.REGISTER NOW
COST: $275
Topics include: incident review, hazard recognition/evaluation/control review, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, respiratory protection, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.REGISTER NOW
COST: $1,000
This is a hybrid online and in-person course.
Topics include: implementation of emergency response plans, classification and identification of unknowns, field survey instruments, response tactics, hazardous materials technology, decontamination of personnel and equipment.REGISTER NOW
COST: $575
Topics include: relevant state and federal regulations, health hazard recognition, hazard and risk assessment, respiratory protection, selection and use of personal protective equipment, decontamination, control and containment of spills, emergency response plans, termination procedures, and the incident command system.REGISTER NOW
COST: $275
Topics include: incident review, hazard recognition/evaluation/control review, health and safety program requirements and regulations, monitoring equipment, respiratory protection, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.REGISTER NOW
Continuing Education from the University of Minnesota and other affiliated CE credits are available.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
The Hazmat Courses at the University of Minnesota have benefited our programs here at the Minnesota Department of Health, Environmental Public Health Laboratory. As a laboratory with ~40 employees, it is very important to have a core of staff trained to respond to potential emergency events involving spills of hazardous chemicals. The training we receive from the University of Minnesota helps to ensure our goal of employee and facility safety is met. As a result of the training provided, we have established our own outreach program to the hazmat community in Minnesota. The training provided in the refresher enabled us to reach out to our state agency partners to safety accept and handle unknown environmental samples; we would not have this otherwise.
Last year, after I attended your course, we had an incident in our office where white powder was detected. ( it is a police station). We revised our procedures on how the department handles white powder incidents, and they used the ERR manual as a reference guide for appropriate PPE and respiratory protection in emergency response. It did not turn out be anything of substance, but the training and manual guided us selecting the appropriate response for this situation, and averting something more serious.
As a result of the HOS training we received from you last year, we now have incorporated new procedures for decontamination of chemically exposed patients into our standard practice for emergency response. Our facility is the receiving hospital for Prairie Island Nuclear Facility. Many participants had not received training to this level in their practice before the course. It will certainly help make us safer. Thank you!
