Notice to Readers
Satellite Broadcast on Risk Assessment in the Infectious Disease
Laboratory
CDC and the Public Health Training Network (PHTN) will
cosponsor
Laboratory Risk Assessment: What, Why, and How, a live satellite
broadcast,
on July 23, 1998, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. eastern daylight time. This
broadcast is designed for infectious disease personnel from public
health,
hospital, physician office, and research laboratories; laboratory
directors, supervisors, technologists, technicians, and
researchers; and
laboratory safety officers, trainers, designers, engineers, and
administrators.
This interactive training program will provide the tools for
performing risk assessments in the infectious disease laboratory.
Participants will perform a risk assessment in a simulated
mycobacteriology
laboratory. U.S. participants can interact with the instructors
through
toll-free telephone, fax, and TTY lines. Continuing education
credits for
various professions will be offered based on 2 hours of
instruction.
Participants can register for this program by calling (800)
418-7246.
There is no charge to view this program. Participants requesting
continuing
education credit must register before June 12, 1998. Additional
information
on this and other PHTN programs is available from the World-Wide
Web,
http://www.cdc.gov/phtn.
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