Infection prevention at work
Germs spread quickly at work. This holds especially true in healthcare, where people are often particularly vulnerable. A strong infection prevention policy protects your employees, clients and patients. IDEWE supports you with advice, training and a policy adapted to your needs.
What is infection prevention?
Infection prevention encompasses all the measures you can take to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as flu at work. Examples include good hand hygiene, sneezing and coughing etiquette and clear guidelines on the use of personal protection equipment (PPE).
Prevention measures are particularly important in healthcare. People are often in close proximity in healthcare facilities, making it easier for germs to spread. In addition, patients and clients are more vulnerable to infections and complications. A well-considered infection prevention policy helps to prevent infection as much as possible.
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What does a risk assessment for infection prevention involve?
A risk assessment for infection prevention helps you to identify risks at your organisation. IDEWE can help.
- We will analyse your infrastructure and your use of spaces.
- We assess the prevention measures you are already implementing, both general measures such as hand hygiene and ventilation and specific measures for infectious diseases.
- We explore ways to keep your employees healthy at work using targeted precautions.
Based on the results, we provide clear recommendations suitable for immediate implementation.
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What is an infection prevention policy?
Building blocks of a strong infection prevention policy:
- Clear procedures for hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection of surfaces and medical equipment, correct use of PPE, etc.
- Specific actions tailored to your risks and priorities
- Monitoring and adjustments at set intervals to ensure that your policy remains current and supported
Solution flow: 4 steps to an effective infection prevention policy
Infection prevention is a process of monitoring and readjustment. To support you, IDEWE has developed an ‘Infection prevention’ solution flow.
The solution flow consists of four phases:
- Gain insight. Chart the risks of spreading infection at your organisation. Our risk assessment helps to achieve this.
- Design a policy. Define a clear approach and specific goals for the prevention of workplace infections. Make vaccination part of your policy, as this is an effective way to protect your employees against individual infectious diseases. Use IDEWE’s expertise to enhance your policy
- Take appropriate action. Translate your prevention policy into specific actions to reduce workplace infections. Focus on raising awareness and train your care workers.
Evaluate and adjust. Continue to monitor and optimise your infection prevention policy.
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Make your infection policy tangible.
Your infection prevention policy will not be truly effective unless it reaches everyone. Pay attention to raising your employees’ awareness. IDEWE supports you with awareness materials:
- Posters - on proper hand hygiene, sneezing and coughing etiquette, and PPE
- Information sheets – with practical information on infectious diseases such as mpox, tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis