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Needlestick injury and sharps injury are avoidable, but sadly common in workplaces where their use is required. Accidents can happen when everything is done to follow safe sharps practices. So a sharps injury protocol must be in place in case of accidents.
The Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 places a duty on employers.
This online course would fall into the category of a General Health and Safety Training course that Safety trainers would find useful to train relevant staff and employees to work with sharps. As well as meeting these training requirements and the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013. It is also fully CPD certified.
This course aims to help employers meet the legal requirements of the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013. With adequate training, risks of blood-borne pathogens (e.g. HIV and Hepatitis) from contaminated sharps injury can be minimised.
Completing the course will provide an understanding of the risks required to perform a sharps risk assessment.
After completing the course candidates will:
It takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the course. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session, and there is no time limit for completion.
The course consists of two interactive modules and an interactive test. Candidates are required to pass the test to receive certification.
The modules should take approximately 90 minutes to complete. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in one. There is no time limit for completing the course.
Candidates are given instant feedback on whether they have passed the assessment or not. The test has a passing score of 75% and can be attempted as many times as required to pass. Retaking the test incurs no extra cost.
Successful candidates will receive a CPD Certificate and 2 CPD Credits.
This course certificate has no expiry date because there is no formally recognised period of validity for any health and safety training or this type of course. The HSE recommends refresher training is carried out whenever it is felt necessary. Safety registration bodies such as CHAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine & SMAS and other members of the SSiP scheme recommend that most re-training is done every 3 years. We would recommend refreshing knowledge as and when legislation or guidance changes applicable to these regulations.
All of our courses, systems and services have been registered to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Quality Management Systems Ltd (QMS) made this prestigious award to Commodious in January 2018. This gives assurance that the training and assessment was completed with a quality registered organisation.
Sharps Awareness Training - System requirements
Our courses are compatible with the latest versions of all modern desktop web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari. On mobile devices, they are compatible with the latest version of Safari or Google Chrome running on iOS 12/Android 6.0 or later.
You can check your current web browser, and whether it is the latest version, by visiting whatismybrowser.com.
For the best experience, we recommend using Google Chrome version 90 or later. We do not recommend using Internet Explorer to access our courses as this can cause compatibility issues and lead to a poor experience.
Bulk Purchases
After a successful purchase you will be automatically taken to our registration process. Here you create your learner(s) and assign the course(s) to them so that they can start training immediately. If you do not know all the learner details - no problem, you can return later and create the learners when it suits you.
The system automatically creates an admin group of your learners, this means you can access your learner accounts to obtain certificates or schedule reports on the progress of your group, useful for Health & Safety audits or Registration to organisations such as CHAS, SMAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine etc or site access when certificates are required.
If this all sounds too complicated feel free to contact us, we are more than happy to enrol you or your colleagues on your behalf.
Free Trial
We know how difficult it can be choosing online training, we have been there ourselves! That is why we are giving free access to all our health and safety training courses (excluding exams) so you can try them out and satisfy yourself with the quality.
We know that when something looks too good to be true, there's often a catch. There are no catches, we simply want to give you a more informed choice. Email us with your requirements and we will set you up.
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