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Healthcare Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management

Online
1.5-3 hours
Free

Course Content

This free online health and safety course explores the healthcare industry's rules regarding cleanliness and hygiene. 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.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID187895
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration1.5-3 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• List the steps taken to decontaminate workplaces
• Discuss the basics of sanitation and cleaning
• Summarise the differences between decontamination, sanitisation and disinfection
• Identify the most efficient strategies for hospital cleaning
• Describe the personal protection equipment (PPE) that is necessary in the healthcare industry
• Explain the various healthcare hygiene principles
• Discuss the primary sterilisation techniques
• Define various hygiene and sanitation systems
• Outline the different cleaning processes and their frequencies
• Describe ideal handling, storage and maintenance procedures
• Recognise the guidelines for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace
Course Code5481

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