Sharps Awareness Online Training Course
We offer this video based online sharps awareness training programme. This e-learning course is CPD certified and is an ideal training solution for tattooists, body piercing, healthcare & social care professionals.
Importantly, this includes nurses, doctors, dentists, dental nurses, care home staff, including domiciliary carers. But additionally anyone who would like to gain online needles & sharps awareness training.
Needles and sharps awareness training is essential. Understanding how to prevent needle stick injuries is important to the health & safety of all employees within your workplace. Importantly, this will also help to control the spread of infections due to dirty and used needles and sharps.
Our online needles & sharps training is completed using video based instruction. This e-learning course is available with free sharps awareness training videos.
These can be paused or rewound as you progress through the course, so you can gain a better understand of the course content and structure.
Description
This online sharps awareness course is not only ideal for tattooists, healthcare & social care professionals, but many additional services.
These include rubbish removal services, commercial cleaners, pest control services, council sweeping services, or anyone who is concerned about the safe disposal of sharps & needles.
Course Content
- 55 Minutes of training video
- Sharp Safety and the basics
- Needlestick injuries and how to avoid them
- Chain of infection
- Chances of infection
- Sharp safety and the disposal equipment available
- Sharp safe handling procedures
- How to minimise cross contamination
- Correct hand washing procedures
Course Certification
At the end of this course you will be required to undertake and online needles & sharps awareness training assessment. This assessment has a pass mark of 70%.
You will be offered three attempts to pass this course. On successful completion of training you will be able to download and print your free sharps awareness training certification.
Additional Training Available
Importantly, we offer many additional training courses that are suitable for healthcare professionals and tattooing studio staff. Additional information can be found by following these links to our Online Training for Healthcare & our Online Training for Tattooists pages.
