Building Service Worker Training - XBUS 1370

There is an industry need to have educated, trained, and skilled Building Service Workers that can effectively perform a clean, disinfect, and sanitize, especially given the COVID-19 pandemic, and for those individuals to work as safely as possible to prevent virus transmission in our workplaces and wider communities. This course is designed to keep things clean and prevent future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Course Outline

Core Training
This consists of 8-days of blended virtual face-to-face training and on-site skills development:

General Hazard Identification and Control
General Personal Protective Equipment & Clothing: The Basics
Respiratory Protection Principles
Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (2015)
“Regular” Cleaning Principles
Introduction to Infectious Disease Outbreaks/Pandemics
Infectious Disease-Related Cleaning, Sanitizing, Disinfecting
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act, Regulations, Code -Overview
Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee
Basic Facility Maintenance and repair

Standards
Building Service Worker Content is based on the following industry standards of Infection Prevention and Control:

Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z317.13.17 Infection Control During Renovation and Maintenance of Health Care Facilities
CSA 317.12 Cleaning and Disinfection of Health Care Facilities
Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC): Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning for Prevention and Control of Infections in all Health Care Settings
Infection Prevention and Control Canada (IPAC)-Canada.org Best Practices for Infection Control

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an industry need to have educated, trained, and skilled building service workers who can effectively clean, disinfect, and sanitize, and those individuals must work as safely as possible to prevent virus transmission in the workplace and in the wider community. Course participants will learn how to keep things clean and prevent future infectious disease outbreaks, while gaining the hands-on and essentials skills required to become effective and efficient building service workers.