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Webinar: Preventing Infections: How Healthcare Design and Operations Lead the Way


When: August 19, 2021
Time: 10:00am Pacific
Price: FREE
Registration was open until 8/19/2021 at 12pm, and is now closed.

1 unit EDAC continuing education
1 unit AIA continuing education
IDCEC credit also available*

CEU forms available for download during webinar

CEUs

As the world grapples with COVID-19, most industries are re-evaluating how to best design, operate, and maintain their facilities. Environmental contamination introduces infections through both surface contamination and airborne transmission. As a long-standing healthcare issue, infection prevention has historically been addressed through Infection Control Risk Assessments (ICRAs) and organizational cleaning and disinfection policies and procedures. Today, infection prevention issues are a direct and immediate concern to all types of facilities including office spaces, transportation hubs, hospitality venues, educational facilities, retail stores, public settings and more. Using lessons learned in healthcare, this session will highlight recommended best practices in designing to mitigate infection risk, facility operation and maintenance, emerging infection prevention technologies, and proper surface cleaning and disinfection.

 

Learning Objectives

  • Explain how the hierarchy of control influences health and safety in facility design.
  • Describe how research informs an approach to all workers’ health, safety, and welfare.
  • Summarize COVID-19 requirements to protect employee safety and health.
  • Distinguish the difference among cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting that impacts both environmental services and material compatibility as an approach to protect occupants’ health, safety, and welfare.

 

Thanks to our sponsor partners:

 

 

Presenting Faculty

Shari L. Solomon, Esq., President, CleanHealth

Shari L. Solomon, Esq. is president of CleanHealth Environmental, LLC. CleanHealth provides infection prevention, industrial hygiene, and OSHA training and consulting services geared toward healthcare personnel responsible for infection prevention, cleaning and disinfection, design and facility operations and maintenance practices. Ms. Solomon possesses more than 20 years of environmental consulting and federal regulatory experience. An attorney by trade, and combined with her experience in the industrial hygiene field with a focus on healthcare, Shari holds a unique expertise and understanding of liability prevention techniques to offer clients practical and valuable risk management solutions.

Prior to launching CleanHealth, Shari was Director of Training with a full-service industrial hygiene firm and charged with the development and oversight of all training programs nationwide. Ms. Solomon has trained thousands of individuals, both In the U.S. and abroad, over the course of 18 years. Shari also conducts health and safety and infection prevention services, including operation and maintenance program development, infection control evaluations, litigation support, and indoor air quality assessments.

 

Ellen Taylor, PhD, AIA, MBA, EDAC, Vice President for Research, The Center for Health Design

Ellen brings 30 years of experience in architecture, research, and business to leading The Center’s research team. She is a registered architect and member of the American Institute of Architects and was recognized by Healthcare Design as the HCD10 Researcher in 2017, an award that recognizes significant contributions to the industry.  A nationally and internationally recognized writer and speaker, she has been influential in guiding Pebble Partner projects and leading grant-funded research programs supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Kresge Foundation, and the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), among others.