BioSource provides all of its employees with Health and Safety training to implement optimum health and safety practices on the job, along with general training emphasizing health and wellness. We cover:

• Safety and Ergonomics
  
• Bloodborne Pathogens
  
• Biohazards
  
• Customer Service and Customer Care
  
• Good Manufacturing Practices

In addition, we offer a comprehensive medical terminology program to our employees and applicants who wish to improve their skills. This computer-based training program includes ten 2-hour courses and teaches trainees not only the definitions of terms, but also their proper pronunciation. Courses include:

• Basis of Medical Terminology
  
• Integumentary System
  
• Musculo-Skeletal System
  
• Circulatory System
  
• Respiratory System
  
• Gastrointestinal System
  
• Endocrine System
  
• Nervous System
  
• Genitourinary System
  
• Special Senses
  

Our parent company, Manpower, is one of the few employers in the world to offer all its employees free and ongoing computer training in the courses of their choice. Training is available at our San Jose Training Center or via the web through our Global Learning Center.

For all BioSource employees, the free classes include TechTrack, Business Skills and Skillware, just to name a few:

TechTrack
Technical training for leading-edge technologies. Over 1000 courses are offered including Java, Oracle, E-Commerce, Windows NT and SAP. Many of these curricula map to today's most popular vendor IT certifications.

Business Skills
College equivalent business training to cross-train the professional and upskill the career-minded. Curriculum areas include Business, Finance, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Budgeting, Management, Business Law, and HR Management.

Skillware
End-user training for today's popular office software products including Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Office 2000, and Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition.

And many, many more skill-building courses.

Web Based Training

BioSource employees, as part of the Manpower community, are offered
e-learning on a scale unmatched in any industry. You'll find the latest on training, assessments, certification and the job market. Plus, we've just expanded by adding a virtual Community Center with chat rooms, live expert-led seminar events and web links to a wide range of informative Internet resources.

Registered students also have access to our leading-edge learning center that includes an extensive collection of training and assessment tools. We recently added over 100 business skill courses to the more than 1,000 software and IT courses already offered here. We also added Spanish and French versions of some of our training courses. For more information, contact your local Manpower Professional office and visit our home page at www.manpowerprofessional.com

Every time our employees complete a class, we update their records to reflect their increased knowledge and skills. We can subsequently assign them to the kinds of positions in which they can apply their growing skills and continue to build their careers.

To learn more about our web-based training, check out our Global Learning Center at manpowernet.com for more information and a list of courses available free to BioSource and Manpower Professional employees.