Healthcare Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management

Course description

Maintaining a clean and hygienic healthcare facility is a crucial measure used to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients. If you're passionate about making a difference in people's lives and concerned about safety, now is the perfect time to consider a career in hygiene and waste management. Sign up for this course to become part of a team dedicated to infection control and maintaining a safe and healthy environment for doctors and patients.

Keeping a clean healthcare setting differs from cleaning a typical office or home. When it comes to preventing the spread of disease, nothing less than pristine conditions in healthcare institutions will do. Hospital sanitation requires strict protocols. Proper hygiene can help prevent gastroenteritis, COVID-19, colds and flu. Keeping good personal cleanliness will also help to prevent the transmission of sickness.

This health and safety course explains how surfaces in healthcare facilities must be cleaned and disinfected regularly to lower the risk of transmission even further. This standard is important because the rapid spread of microorganisms in healthcare settings is caused by frequent physical contact between medical workers, patients and their families. Healthcare workers can help prevent the spread of illness by constantly washing their hands before treating patients, wearing protective gear when needed and taking other basic safety procedures. This training course lays out the basics of health and safety to provide a solid understanding of the primary cleaning and disinfection procedures methods such as decontamination and sanitation. We also examine the healthcare industry standards pertaining to food hygiene, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, product recommendations and much more.

This course provides the training you need to understand and implement the rules, procedures and hygiene regulations that go into effective waste management. We discuss the processing, treatment and disposal of healthcare waste. The course explains how to ensure that the right care service organisation is involved in health and safety decision-making and that features a socially and environmentally conscious employer committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for its employees. If you want to begin a career in hygiene and waste management, the time is now! Cleaning specialists earn well and are in high demand across the world. This demand can only grow so sign up to increase your hygiene expertise and specialise in waste management and play your role in keeping healthcare facilities clean and safe.