Biosafety and infectious disease occupational health training from the NIEHS Worker Training Program: A historical look at capacity building that supported a COVID-19 response

Persaud, Eric; Weinstock, Deborah; Wright, Demia S.

doi:10.5055/jem.0663

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“…4,6 Reaching less experienced workers with critical information for disease exposure and transmission may protect workers and communities during future outbreaks resulting from COVID-19, seasonal influenza, and other natural hazards. 21 Workplace outbreaks present a challenge to employers and public health departments, whereby personnel at most workplaces may have little experience controlling and preventing airborne infectious disease exposures. 2 To this effect, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness COVID-19 may be the first outbreak less experienced workers have worked through.…”

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Implementation of an Awareness Level Training to Prepare the Workforce for Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Workman,

Fulk,

Carreón

et al. 2024

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for workforce awareness-level training for infectious disease outbreaks. A training program was created and evaluated to provide strategies for emergency preparedness as well as worker health and safety during a disease outbreak. Methods: Participants (N = 292) completed instructor-led synchronous online training modules between January 2022 and February 2023. Training covered 5 areas: vaccine awareness, infectious disease transmission and prevention, pandemic awareness, and inapparent infections, as well as workplace controls to reduce or remove hazards. Participants completed a survey before and after training to assess knowledge change in the five areas. Chi-square analyses assessed how predictors were related to knowledge change. Results: Overall, an increase in knowledge was observed between pre- (80.9%) and post-training (92.7%). Participants from small businesses, with less work experience, and in non-health care roles were under-informed. Knowledge of disease transmission and prevention improved for non-health care professions and workers with less experience. All participants gained knowledge in identifying and ranking safeguards to protect workers from injuries and illness at job sites. Conclusions: Training improved employee knowledge about safe work practices and pandemic preparedness. Studies should continue to evaluate the effectiveness of preparedness training to prepare the workforce for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics.

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Implementation of an Awareness Level Training to Prepare the Workforce for Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Workman,

Fulk,

Carreón

et al. 2024

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Therefore, personal safety of medical personnel is important for prevention and control. [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] According to the relevant documents, guidelines and other materials and the working experience of the designated hospital, and in combination with the current situation of the existing sites, equipment, facilities and personnel of the Department, the corresponding prevention, and control plan is formulated. [46,47] From the perspective of the laboratory, this paper discusses how to do a good job in biosafety protection, improve biosafety protection measures, and optimize the workflow.…”

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Biosafety protection and workflow of clinical microbiology laboratory under COVID-19: A review

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This paper mainly discusses how to do a good job of daily biosafety protection measures in clinical microbiology laboratories during the epidemic of COVID-19, so as to ensure the safe development of routine clinical microbiology testing items. According to the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of the novel coronavirus, this paper analyzed the potential risks of the laboratory from the perspective of personal protection before, during, and after testing. Combined with the actual work situation, the improved biosafety protection measures and optimized work flow are introduced to ensure the safety of medical staff and the smooth development of daily work. Danyang People’s Hospital of Jiangsu Province, clinical microbiology laboratory of clinical laboratory in strict accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, technical specifications and the expert consensus, combined with their own conditions, the biosafety measures to perfect the working process was optimized, effectively prevent the laboratory exposure, and maintain strict working condition for a long time, continue to improve. We found that the biosafety protection measures of clinical microbiology laboratory have good prevention and control effect on preventing infection of medical staff, which will greatly reduce the risk of infection of medical staff, form good working habits, and provide reference for biosafety protection of microbiology laboratory during the epidemic of COVID-19.

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Biosafety and infectious disease occupational health training from the NIEHS Worker Training Program: A historical look at capacity building that supported a COVID-19 response

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Implementation of an Awareness Level Training to Prepare the Workforce for Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Implementation of an Awareness Level Training to Prepare the Workforce for Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Biosafety protection and workflow of clinical microbiology laboratory under COVID-19: A review

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