Infection Prevention and Control
Awareness training for any workplace with infection hazards, from offices and schools to clinics, studios, labs, cleaning crews and first responders: the chain of infection and modes of transmission, the General Duty Clause, the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard and recordkeeping, public health law, CDC guidance and ASHRAE 170, hand hygiene and audits, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization with the Spaulding classification and EPA-registered disinfectants, ventilation, masks and outbreak management, vaccination, herd immunity and sick leave, bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions, sharps safety, spills and post-exposure response, transmission-based precautions and protective equipment, special settings, and a capstone infection prevention plan.
HSE-245 12 lessons · 5 h 35 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain why infection prevention matters in workplaces from offices to health care, and apply the hierarchy of controls to infection hazards.
- Use the chain of infection and the modes of transmission to identify where controls can break the spread of an infection.
- Describe the General Duty Clause, the Bloodborne Pathogens standard, recordkeeping rules, public health law and recognized guidance that apply to infection hazards in US workplaces.
- Perform and promote hand hygiene with the right method, technique and timing, and interpret hand hygiene audit results.
- Select cleaning, disinfection or sterilization using the Spaulding classification, and use disinfectants safely with correct dilution and contact time.
- Apply ventilation, masking, respiratory etiquette and outbreak measures, and calculate air change clearance times and attack rates.
- Explain how vaccination and community immunity work, including the herd immunity threshold, and describe vaccination, fitness-for-work and sick leave policies.
- Identify bloodborne pathogens and the fluids that carry them, estimate exposure risks and apply universal and standard precautions and hepatitis B vaccination.
- Prevent sharps injuries, clean up body fluid spills and respond to blood exposures quickly and correctly.
- Choose additional precautions and protective equipment by mode of transmission, and put on and take off equipment without self-contamination.
- Recognize and control infection hazards in personal service, dental, school and child care, laboratory, cleaning, first responder, travel and animal work settings.
- Build, monitor and review an infection prevention plan for a workplace.
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 35 min total · final exam
- 1 Why infection prevention matters at work 27 min · quiz
- 2 How infections spread 28 min · quiz
- 3 Law, responsibilities and guidance 27 min · quiz
- 4 Hand hygiene 28 min · quiz
- 5 Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization 29 min · quiz
- 6 Respiratory infections, ventilation and outbreaks 29 min · quiz
- 7 Vaccination and fitness for work 29 min · quiz
- 8 Bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions 29 min · quiz
- 9 Sharps, spills and exposure response 29 min · quiz
- 10 Transmission-based precautions and protective equipment 27 min · quiz
- 11 Infection prevention in special settings 27 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: an infection prevention plan 26 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Description
Awareness training for any workplace with infection hazards, from offices and schools to clinics, studios, labs, cleaning crews and first responders: the chain of infection and modes of transmission, the General Duty Clause, the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard and recordkeeping, public health law, CDC guidance and ASHRAE 170, hand hygiene and audits, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization with the Spaulding classification and EPA-registered disinfectants, ventilation, masks and outbreak management, vaccination, herd immunity and sick leave, bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions, sharps safety, spills and post-exposure response, transmission-based precautions and protective equipment, special settings, and a capstone infection prevention plan.