Sharps Training and Safety Awareness

Overview

This sharps training course aims to help employers meet the legal requirements of the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013. With adequate training, risks of blood-borne pathogens (e.g. HIV and Hepatitis) from contaminated sharps injury can be minimised.

Who should undergo sharps training?

Sharps training should be taken by those who work in the healthcare sector and social care services, laboratory staff, first aid responders, waste handlers, and any other personnel who may come into contact with sharps or needles as part of their job duties.

After completing the course candidates will:

• Know what sharps are and the risks of sharps injury.
• Understand what to do in the event of a needlestick injury or sharps injury.
• Have an understanding of where sharps may be found and the risks involved.
• Understand what is involved in a sharps risk assessment.
• Recognise what safe sharps disposal requires and why sharps bin guidelines are necessary.

Duration

It takes approximately 30 minutes to complete the course. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in a single session, and there is no time limit for completion.

Structure and Assessment

The course consists of two interactive modules and an interactive test. Candidates are required to pass the test to receive certification.

The modules should take approximately 25 minutes to complete. This can be spread out over multiple sessions or completed in one. There is no time limit for completing the course.

Candidates are given instant feedback on whether they have passed the assessment or not. The test has a passing score of 75% and can be attempted as many times as required to pass. Retaking the test incurs no extra cost.

Module Summary

Successful candidates will receive a CPD Certificate and 0.5 CPD Credits.

This course certificate has no expiry date because there is no formally recognised period of validity for this type of course. The HSE recommends refresher training be carried out whenever it is felt necessary. Safety registration bodies such as CHAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine & SMAS and other members of the SSiP scheme recommend that most re-training is done every 3 years. We would recommend refreshing knowledge as and when legislation or guidance changes applicable to these regulations.

All of our courses, systems and services have been registered to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Quality Management Systems Ltd (QMS) made this prestigious award to Commodious in January 2018. This gives assurance that the training and assessment were completed with a quality registered organisation.

After a successful purchase you will be automatically taken to our registration process. Here you create your learner(s) and assign the course(s) to them so that they can start training immediately. If you do not know all the learner details - no problem, you can return later and create the learners when it suits you.

The system automatically creates an admin group of your learners, this means you can access your learner accounts to obtain certificates or schedule reports on the progress of your group, useful for Health & Safety audits or Registration to organisations such as CHAS, SMAS, SafeContractor, ConstructionLine etc or site access when certificates are required.

If this all sounds too complicated feel free to contact us, we are more than happy to enrol you or your colleagues on your behalf.