Infection Control For The Workplace
Infection Control For The Workplace
About this Unit
This public health-oriented training provides participants with the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and others from infectious diseases in accordance with organisational infection control procedures.
Participants will learn about safe work practices including the use of personal hygiene practices and equipment, management of a needle stick injury, management of blood and body fluid spills and the safe disposal of syringes and contaminated waste.
Our Program
We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses or paramedics with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in experience and knowledge of the field.
Some of the topics include:
- how to maintain personal hygiene
- infection prevention and control
- infectious agents and their modes of transmission
- hand hygiene and effective hand washing technique
- standard and transmission based infection control precautions
- practices that prevent transmission of infection
- infection risks including management of blood spills and needle stick injuries
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| Delivery Mode | The training options are: 2 hours and 45 minutes of live online training with knowledge assessment, and 2 hours and 30 minutes of face-to-face training with knowledge assessment. |
| Learning Objectivess | In the face-to-face mode, participants will demonstrate the effective handwashing technique, manage a minor blood spill, and manage a needle stick injury. |
| Qualifications | The training options are: "Infection Control for the Workplace: Live Online Training and Knowledge Assessment" and "Infection Control for the Workplace: Face-to-Face Training and Knowledge Assessment." |
| Validity of Certificate | 1 year |