Infection Prevention and Control Course

Course Overview: What is Infection Prevention and Control training?

Our comprehensive Infection Prevention and Control Course provides essential training on the measures and practices designed to significantly reduce the risk of spreading infections in any environment, particularly in workplaces and shared spaces. By completing this course, you will understand what an infection is, why infection prevention is important, and the vital roles both employers and individuals play in maintaining a safe, healthy, and productive environment. This infection prevention control training is critical for safeguarding both employees and vulnerable people.

Why is Infection Prevention Training Important?

The learning outcomes of this infection prevention and control training aim to ensure a safe environment and minimise workplace disruption. By taking steps to control the spread of infectious diseases, your organisation can achieve several key benefits:

• Protect Vulnerable People: Safeguarding high-risk individuals such as the elderly, pregnant people, or those with underlying health conditions.

• Maintain Productivity: Reducing staff absences, which helps prevent delays, missed deadlines, and financial losses from the need for temporary cover.

• Reduce Healthcare Stress: Minimising the strain on healthcare systems by preventing hospitalisations and the over-use of antibiotics.

• Enhance Quality of Life: Ensuring less people suffer from illness and its complications.

Learning Outcomes: Infection Prevention and Control Certificate

After completing this infection control online course, candidates will be able to:

• Explain infection prevention and control (IPC) and its vital role in protecting individuals and the workplace from illness.

• Understand what is infection control training and the different ways that germs (bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites) cause and spread infectious diseases.

• Be aware of the types of infection prevention and control measures, including identifying and assessing the risks of disease transmission.

• Have knowledge of the legal framework and employer duties under health and safety legislation, specifically COSHH, that underpin the need for this training.

• Understand how can we prevent and control infection by implementing practical, everyday actions, such as effective personal hygiene techniques and maintaining a clean work environment.

• Grasp what are the aims of infection prevention and control training, including reducing staff presenteeism and promoting a healthier workplace.

• Know why infection prevention is important for maintaining productivity and protecting vulnerable people.

Infection Prevention and Control - Course Structure

The course comprises 3 interactive modules and a final assessment. Links to recommended reading and additional resources may be provided within the training modules. These links are not mandatory and will not be tested for in the final assessment.

Duration

It takes approximately 30 minutes to complete the course in full. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session. There is no time limit for completion.

Assessment

All candidates must complete a multiple choice assessment after working through the training material. The candidate will be asked 16 multiple choice questions, randomly chosen from a larger question pool, and need to answer a minimum of 12 correctly to pass. Candidates will be given instant feedback after completing the assessment stating whether they have passed or failed. The assessment can be re-taken as many times as is required to pass at no additional cost.

Successful candidates will receive a CPD Certificate and 0.5 CPD Credits.

The Infection Prevention and Control awareness certificate has no expiry date because there is no formally recognised period of validity for any health and safety training. 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 most re-training is done every 3 years.

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.

This e-learning course only provides awareness education. Face to face training may be needed in addition in order to complete the all round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically in some organisations.

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.