Assess occupational health exposure arising from sharps injury prevention and arrange surveillance.
Building Needlestick and Sharps Injury Prevention Programmes for Nurses
A working programme in sharps injury prevention for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Where sharps injury prevention depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. Safety performance on the practice within occupational health and safety degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The course sets out a working method for this strand of occupational health and safety that participants can apply the week they return. Progress on sharps injury prevention is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of this part of occupational health and safety and prepares them for it. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about the wider occupational health and safety agenda. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place sharps injury prevention among the areas with the widest performance spread. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the practice within occupational health and safety. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the occupational health and safety discipline rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish what evidence would demonstrate that sharps injury prevention is under control.
Write procedures for sharps injury prevention that can be followed under real operating pressure.
Identify the failure points in sharps injury prevention most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Establish reporting routes for hazards and near misses involving sharps injury prevention that people will actually use.
Set acceptance criteria for sharps injury prevention before work begins rather than after.
Close out corrective actions on sharps injury prevention rather than leaving them open.
Who Should Attend
Facility and plant managers accountable for sharps injury prevention.
Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering sharps injury prevention.
Training officers building competence in sharps injury prevention.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from sharps injury prevention.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to sharps injury prevention that has grown up informally.
Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around sharps injury prevention.
Course Modules
Sharps injury prevention: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing sharps injury prevention when nothing has gone wrong
- Audit application of sharps injury prevention controls at the workface.
- Ask the people doing sharps injury prevention what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Identify where judgement in sharps injury prevention is legitimate and where it is not.
- Map the handovers in sharps injury prevention between functions and secure them.
Session 2Making sharps injury prevention work when resources are constrained
- Check that lessons from sharps injury prevention reached other sites doing similar work.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in sharps injury prevention is current.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in sharps injury prevention short and non-punitive.
- Close out corrective actions on sharps injury prevention with a named owner and date.
Sharps injury prevention: occupational health and long-term exposure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing a procedure for sharps injury prevention people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Anticipate the objections sharps injury prevention will raise and prepare the answers.
- Verify permits covering sharps injury prevention are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on sharps injury prevention.
- Test that protective equipment specified for sharps injury prevention fits and is maintained.
Session 2The exposure from sharps injury prevention that shows up years later
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting sharps injury prevention.
- Compare the cost of sharps injury prevention with the cost of its absence.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of sharps injury prevention current.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around sharps injury prevention are understood.
Sharps injury prevention: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on sharps injury prevention starts
- Check that sharps injury prevention still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Identify the hazards in sharps injury prevention and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Set the review interval for sharps injury prevention and who attends.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on sharps injury prevention.
Session 2Holding contractors on sharps injury prevention to your own standard
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for sharps injury prevention, do not just publish it.
- Confirm that reporting on sharps injury prevention reaches the people who can act.
- Record who is authorised to work on sharps injury prevention and when authorisation expires.
- Define acceptance criteria for sharps injury prevention in advance.
Sharps injury prevention: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing sharps injury prevention in the field rather than in the file
- Set escalation thresholds for sharps injury prevention that work out of hours.
- Build the internal briefing that explains sharps injury prevention to those affected.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for sharps injury prevention are proven before work starts.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by sharps injury prevention and arrange surveillance.
Session 2Assessing the hazards in sharps injury prevention without turning it into paperwork
- Agree the smallest change to sharps injury prevention that would be visibly useful.
- Build the competence framework that supports sharps injury prevention.
- Investigate the last incident involving sharps injury prevention to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Remove steps in sharps injury prevention that add effort without adding assurance.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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