2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-2872. Online training platform — Mandatory training.
A. The Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority shall maintain an online training platform for 9-1-1 emergency telecommunicators in this state.
B. The Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority shall create, maintain, and certify a list of qualified online and in-person training programs that include the basic requirements for a 9-1-1 emergency telecommunicator as well as coordinate and collaborate with local and regional 9-1-1 training authorities. Classes shall be a minimum of forty (40) hours in length and include instruction for basic call handling and dispatch services. The Oklahoma 9-1-1 Management Authority shall establish hourly training requirements on a yearly basis.
C. On or before July 1, 2024, emergency telecommunicators in this state that provide dispatch service for emergency medical services shall complete, either in-person or virtually, a forty-hour state-recognized training course for basic call handling and dispatch services.
D. Any new emergency telecommunicator hired after January 1, 2024, shall complete, either in-person or virtually, a forty-hour state-recognized training course for basic call handling and dispatch services within six (6) months of his or her hire date.
E. On or before July 1, 2024, emergency telecommunicators in this state that provide dispatch service for emergency medical services shall complete, either in-person or virtually, a state- or nationally recognized telecommunicator CPR training course. Telecommunicator CPR training shall follow evidence-based, nationally recognized guidelines for High-Quality Telecommunicator CPR which incorporates recognition protocols for out-of-hospital cardiac events.
Added by Laws 2023, c. 258, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2023.
