Infection Control for Support Workers : Face-to-Face Training and Assessment

This course provides support workers with the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and their clients from infectious diseases in accordance with organisational infection control procedures.
Our health practitioner trainers will engage with support workers and explore the challenges they face within their environment and supported independent living centres.
Support workers participants will learn about safe work practices including the use of personal hygiene practices and equipment, management of a needle stick injury, management of blood and body fluid spills and the safe disposal of syringes and contaminated waste.

Demonstrate effective hand washing technique
Describe how to manage contaminated waste, clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces
Manage a minor blood spill
Manage a needle stick injury

3 hours face-to-face training and assessment

Infection Control for Support Workers : Face-to-Face Training and Assessment

1 year

We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses or paramedics with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in experience and knowledge of the field.

Some of the topics include:

• How to maintain personal hygiene


• Infection prevention and control


• Infectious agents and their modes of transmission


• Hand hygiene and effective hand washing technique


• Standard and transmission based infection control precautions


• Practices that prevent transmission of infection


• Infection risks including management of blood spills and needle stick injuries