Infection Control qualifications from Swan Training Group

Infection Control training educates employees in the basic elements of infection control. This infection control training program is intended for workers in fields such as family, elderly and children's care or other public health or long term care workers in direct contact with the public.

Our Infection Control course is a QCF qualifcation which can be completed within your place of work (groups only),or at our training centre. Contact us for available dates.

Topics include:

• Responsibilities
• Causes of infection
• Preventing infection
• Occupational Hazards

At successful completion of infection control training, students will be able to:

• Identify the rights and responsibilities of employees and employers
• List the causes of infection
• Identify means of transmission
• List 'routes of entry'
• Discuss immunization
• Identify effective hand washing techniques
• Select appropriate personal protective equipment
• Apply safe work practices - spills, cleaning, laundry, waste disposal reporting
• Select safe techniques for handling sharps
• Discuss blood borne pathogens
• Discuss airborne diseases
• Discuss enteric and food borne illness
• Discuss contact infections