Hand Hygiene for Healthcare

This course is offered anywhere in Ontario
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 20 minutes

A culture of clean hands is vital in the efforts to stem the transmission of bacteria, viruses and other potentially infectious organisms. This can be particularly important in health care environments, or environments that involve contact with or the preparation of food. The lack of hand hygiene contributes to the spread of multi-resistant organisms and is recognized as a significant contributor to outbreaks of infection. Hand hygiene is a responsibility shared by everyone.

This course will enable participants to:

  • Describe what hand hygiene is
  • Explain why hand hygiene is important
  • Describe when hand hygiene is to be performed
  • Describe hand hygiene methods and demonstrate the steps of all methods
  • Account for the factors that impact the effectiveness of hand hygiene

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About Industrial Safety Trainers

We at Industrial Safety Trainers believe that we can make a difference. We provide training and consulting services that will change the way workers look at safety in the workplace. We offer a very unique way of training; a discussion based method of learning. Our training team is a highly skilled group of certified professionals with a wealth of industry experience and work related background but most importantly, they are passionate about safety training. Our support staff strives to understand our client realities and through collaboration and purposeful listening ensures facilitation of each specific training or consulting request. Each team member works tirelessly to make the registration process for training courses easy and enjoyable.

We operate offices out of Barrie and Ottawa. Industrial Safety Trainers is becoming one of the largest training providers in Canada. Training can take place at a variety of different training venues such as our state of the art mobile training center called the Safety Bus, our conference centers located at either our head office in Barrie or our new training centre in Ottawa, along with other locations that we feel are appropriate for training courses to be delivered.

“We believe the goal of making a workplace safe should not be a burden to the employer, it should be easy and affordable. We strive to ensure that our clients are educated about the applicable provincial and federal safety laws and how they should be applied.”