The PPE in Health and Social Care Course helps learners understand appropriate PPE selection, infection prevention, safe donning and doffing, respiratory protection, hand hygiene and disposal procedures in care settings. The course is 100% online, CPD Certified and worth 3 CPD points.
The PPE in Health and Social Care CPD course provides essential knowledge and awareness of the appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) within health and social care environments.
Health and social care staff may be exposed to blood, body fluids, infectious agents, contaminated materials, cleaning chemicals and other workplace hazards. Appropriate selection and use of PPE can help reduce exposure and support effective infection prevention and control practices.
Why this Training Matters for your Organisation
Providing staff with appropriate understanding when This training can help your organisation to:PPE may be required, which types of PPE may be appropriate for different tasks, how to put on and remove PPE safely, and how PPE should be handled and disposed of after use.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for:
- prove staff understanding of the correct use of PPE
- Strengthen infection prevention and control awareness
- Reduce the risk of cross-contamination and exposure to infectious materials
- Help staff understand when different types of PPE may be required
- Promote correct procedures for putting on and removing PPE
- Reinforce effective hand hygiene alongside PPE use
- Improve awareness of safe PPE disposal and waste management
- Support safer working practices across health and social care settings
- Help protect staff, service users, residents and visitors
- Improve staff confidence when responding to infection-related risks
- Support consistent PPE practices across teams and departments
- Strengthen your organisation's overall health, safety and infection-control culture
- Support ongoing staff training and professional
