Training that ends in a record, not a badge

The two courses a healthcare employer asks a new starter for. Both are written against the current text of the regulation with the paragraph beside every claim, both end in an assessment, and both issue a PDF laid out as the record your employer has to keep — including the fields 29 CFR 1910.1030(h)(2)(i) names.

Read this before you buy one

The market for these certificates runs on an implication nobody states out loud: that a badge with a regulation number on it is a compliance document. It is not. Both of the standards behind these courses put the duty on the EMPLOYER — to train, and to keep a record — and neither names a body that approves training or trainers. A certificate is evidence for that record. It is a genuinely useful thing to hold, and it is not the thing it is usually sold as.

So each course page opens with a table mapping the regulation’s own required elements against the modules that cover them, and naming the ones a written course cannot deliver — the interactive question-and-answer session the bloodborne standard requires at (g)(2)(vii)(N), and, for HIPAA, training on your own employer’s policies. Nothing is hidden behind the payment: the entire course and the entire assessment are free to read and free to take.

Frequently asked

Are these certificates accredited?
No, and neither is anybody else’s. OSHA does not approve, endorse or certify bloodborne pathogens training or the people who provide it, and there is no federal HIPAA certification of individuals at all. What the rules require is that the EMPLOYER trains its people and keeps a record of having done so. These courses deliver the training content and issue that record, with the fields the regulations name printed on it. Your employer decides whether it satisfies their obligation, because the regulations put them in charge of that decision and not a certifying body.
What is actually being sold, if the course is free?
The document. Every module and every assessment question on this site is free to read and free to take, and stays that way. What costs money is the issued PDF: dated, referenced, and laid out as the record an employer has to file. That is an honest split — it is also the only one that works on a site whose whole content is already public.
How long does a certificate last?
The bloodborne pathogens standard requires retraining at least annually, within one year of the previous training, so the certificate is dated and prints the date it falls due. HIPAA sets no annual interval for individuals — it requires training for new workforce members and again after a material change in policy — but most employers run both on the same annual cycle.
Is my name sent to a server?
No. The PDF is generated in your browser from the name you type; there is no endpoint here that receives it and no database behind this site. Payment is handled by Creem on its own page, and the email they hold to send your receipt does not come back to us.

Allied Exam Bank is an independent publisher of training material. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, approved or accredited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other agency. OSHA does not approve, endorse, accredit or certify bloodborne pathogens training or training providers, and no federal HIPAA certification of individuals exists. 29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2) places the duty to provide training on the employer, and 45 CFR 164.530(b)(1) requires a covered entity to train its workforce on its own policies and procedures; a certificate issued here records training content delivered to the holder, and the employer decides whether it satisfies those duties. Nothing here is legal, medical or compliance advice.