Health care professional
biosafety course
Are you a healthcare professional or someone who is trained and licensed to provide medical care to patients? This can include a wide range of individuals such as doctors, veterinarians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, technicians, and other allied health professionals. If you work in various settings including hospitals, clinics, private practices, and community health centers, then this information is for you.
You will learn about biosafety and the risk of getting infected; how you get infected; how you can protect yourself with simple small actions; how to choose barriers to protect yourself; be able to tell others how to be safer. Knowledge is power and this knowledge may save your life or those you work with.
Intermediate
Everyone working with an infectious diseases in any capacity needs this knowledge. It will support your training and provide further details.
21 videos
The course is short videos on various topics from conceptual to detailed.
4 hours
In a few short hours you will learn so much. Each video is packed with information which can be taken on demand.
Be safe
Learn to protect yourself, family, & community. Achieve an greater understanding of biosafety to keep you and your patients safer.
Course videos
Choose a topic and learn more.
The fundamentals
What is biosafety?
A refresher on what biosafety is and why you need to know it.
Understand hazard and risk
Be aware of the hazards at you work and the risks they create for you and your family.
How do you get sick
Learn the steps that lead to an infection. If you understand how you get sick you can do something about it.
What you should do
How to protect yourself
Learn the fundamentals of protecting yourself from infectious diseases.
Wear gloves
Wear face protection
Covering you nose and mouth will protect you and your clients. Some face masks are respirators – learn more here.
Wear body protection
Wear eye protection
Protect your eyes from debris, biological agents and chemicals. Learn about the different types of eye protection.
Wash your hands
Learn more from the advanced course
Introduction to risk assessment
A brief introduction to the risk you face at your work place and doing a risk assessment.
Risk assessment
Risk, risk assessment and when to do it.
What influences risk
Learn what factors influence the amount of risk you may incur at your work.
Risk factors
What you do, where you work and how you do your work affects risk.
The risk equation
You can rate the amount of risk by using the risk equation.
Risk assessment methodology
Learn how you can use the risk equation to determine your level of risk.
Biorisk management - Part 1
Learn the basics of biorisk management.
Biorisk management - Part 2
Good practices and procedures lower risk.
PPE - hand and arm protection
How to choose, use and dispose of hand and arm protection.
PPE - body, head and feet
How to choose, use and dispose of body coverings.
PPE - face and eyes
How to choose, use and dispose of face and eye coverings.
PPE - respirators
How to choose, use and dispose of respirators.
PPE - donning and doffing
How to wear and remove your PPE to minimize spread of contamination.
Biowaste management
Learn how to manage contaminated biological waste in your facility.
Infection control
Learn about disinfection, sterilization and decontamination to support infection control.