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SUMMARY:Cleaning for Health Workshop: Helping Essential Cleaners Identify Reservoirs for Germs
DESCRIPTION:The ISSA Cleaning for Health Workshop: Helping Essential Cleaners Identify Reservoirs for Germs Workshop provides critical education and training to frontline cleaning workers. This workshop closes gaps in current protections and controls for diseases transmissible by contact, droplet, and aerosol, of which frontline cleaners can be particularly vulnerable.\nCore workshop focus:\nIn-person, three-hour workshop, taught by master trainers in the cleaning industry:\n\nIdentifying and preventing occupational-related infectious diseases, including COVID-19, in industries with high-illness rates, for frontline workers or susceptible populations\nIdentifying workplace hazards associated with infectious diseases, including COVID-19\n\nThe training course consists of three sessions:\nSession 1 – What Does It Mean to Recognize Risk\nSession 2 – How Germs Spread and Make People Sick\nSession 3 – Human Body and Built Environment Reservoirs Important for the Cleaning Industry\nWorkshop curriculum topics include:\n\nCase Studies – The transmission of infectious diseases in the workplace\nTypes of infectious disease-causing agents – Bacteria, viruses, fungi\nChain of infection and signs, symptoms, and transmission of infectious diseases\nWhat are vaccine-preventable diseases? And how do vaccines protect me?\nA layered hygiene approach – Hand hygiene, surfaces, air, and PPE\nPreventive measures for a safe workplace – What do you need to be aware of?\nStrategies for preparedness & response – Hazard identification and risk assessment\nStrategies to support continuity of operations – Hierarchy of controls\nSeven things to do create a household plan of action to protect those you live with\nStrategies for cleaning equipment, tools, and your vehicle\nConsiderations in the workplace – Existing guidance and OSHA standards protect workers, worker rights, and employer responsibilities\n\nWho should attend?\n\nFrontline workers in the U.S. cleaning industry, including cleaners, janitors, restorers, and remediators\nISSA-member companies, including building service contractors, residential cleaners, and in-house service providers\nSmaller businesses with 250 or fewer employees\nSix states where the training will take place – Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, and Michigan\n\nAn answer of “yes” to any of the following questions indicates the need for your company’s frontline employee(s) to attend this training:\n\nDoes the employee clean restrooms and other areas which may have been dirtied with blood or bodily fluids?\nDoes the employee clean high-touch surfaces such as floors, door handles, elevator buttons, handrails, food preparation areas, countertops, bathroom surfaces, desks, shopping carts, toilets, faucets, and sinks?\nIs the employee required to use an EPA-Registered Disinfectant product?\nIs the employee required to pick up trash?\nDoes the employee handle dirty laundry?\n\nFree Workshop\nParticipation in this Cleaning for Health Workshop: Helping Essential Cleaners Identify Reservoirs for Germs Workshop is free for ISSA-member companies as a result of a grant award that the association received from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.*\nQuestions?\nFor questions about the ISSA Cleaning for Health Workshop: Helping Essential Cleaners Identify Reservoirs for Germs Workshops, please contact ( mailto:gavinms@issa.com ) Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner, Senior Director, GBAC®, a Division of ISSA.\n*This training is presented under Grant Number SH-38958-22-60-F-17, ISSA FY22 Susan Harwood Training Program ARPA Infectious Diseases Grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.*\nLocation: \nCPI Training Center\n280 E 64th St,\nHolland, MI 49423\n
URL:https://events.issa.com/events/recognizing-risk-of-infectious-diseases-using-reservoirs-in-the-cleaning-industry-aug-22-holland/
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