Laboratories, Emergencies, and the Law: How Our Legal System Impacts Labs During Emergency Response

Course Title: Laboratories, Emergencies, and the Law: How Our Legal System Impacts Labs During Emergency Response
Course Duration: 1 hour
Course Description:This basic-level webinar will provide an overview of important concepts of legal preparedness that can impact the operation of laboratories during an emergency response. Issues discussed will include liability, the impact of emergency declarations on the legal landscape, and mutual aid agreements.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to:

• Discuss concepts of legal preparedness during an emergency response.
• Identify legal challenges which may impact laboratory operations in an emergency.
• Describe legal tools to improve laboratory operations during an emergency response.

Target Audience: This basic-level webinar is intended for laboratory scientists working in sentinel, state, and local public health laboratories. basic-level webinar is for laboratory professionals.

Access Requirements: To participate in this webinar, you will need a computer with internet access and speakers or a headphone to hear the audio. To test your system, visit: https://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support /meeting_test.htm

Special Needs: Course content is closed captioned where applicable and optimized for a screen reader.

CEUs: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Laboratory Training and Services Branch, is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.

This webinar is approved for 1.0 hour of P.A.C.E.® credit, and has been approved for1.0 contact hours in the General (Supervision/Administration, Quality Control/Quality Assurance, and Safety) category for Florida Laboratory Licensees.

P.A.C.E.® Course#: 288-004-17 FL Course#: 20-591186