The Florida Senate

470.0201  Health and safety education.--All individuals not licensed by the department who intend to be employed as operational personnel affiliated with a direct disposal establishment, cinerator facility, removal service, refrigeration facility, or centralized embalming facility, as well as all nonlicensed individuals who intend to be involved in the removal or transportation of human remains on behalf of a funeral establishment, direct disposal establishment, or cinerator facility shall complete one course approved by the board on communicable diseases, within 10 days after the date that they begin functioning as operational personnel on behalf of any entity that is regulated by this chapter. The course shall not exceed 3 hours and shall be offered at approved locations throughout the state. Such locations may include establishments that are licensed or registered under this chapter. The board shall adopt rules to implement and enforce this provision, which rules shall include provisions that provide for the use of approved videocassette courses and other types of audio, video, or home study courses to fulfill the continuing education requirements of this section.

History.--s. 19, ch. 93-399; s. 70, ch. 94-119; s. 3, ch. 96-355.