We believe that all workers have the right to go home each day with all their fingers and toes. Improving Occupational health and safety practices has been one of the fastest evolving aspects in the construction industry over the past decade. Protecting workers from healthcare infections when working in hospitals is often minimized or overlooked.
We believe that all patients have the right to access healthcare resources without the fear of catching a HAI or nosocomial infection. Learning to prevent cross-contamination during construction, renovation, repair and maintenance activities saves lives.
We believe that through hands-on exercises with equipment, instruments and demonstrations, we will more effectively help develop the internal compass that motivates and drives compliance in our focus to protect the patients.
We believe that by breaking the education and training into bite size chunks, retention improves and you can choose the modules that will be applied immediately in the field.
Infection Control Training Group began as a result of Graham and Craig identifying a need while teaching, consulting and contracting in hospitals across Canada. Many leaders in facility management and construction recognize that many of their workers learn best by seeing, touching and doing. They recognize that sitting in a classroom and reading a rulebook has made the transition to a culture that ‘gets it’ very challenging.
Many consultants and teachers are highly educated but lack the real world experience of having been ‘on the tools’ having to make the CSA Infection Control Standard work in old and new healthcare facilities. Graham and Craig have developed their skills and experience making it work, building barriers and temporary ventilation systems in hundreds of projects, learning the hard way how cross contamination can occur and how to most effectively and efficiently control and prevent such occurrences. Now they are bringing those lessons to you and your staff.
Our trainers’ ability to make infection control principles practical and possible in field applications is based on decades of doing it. They don’t just talk about it and supervise others, they have made it work in every circumstance solving challenges and helping the multi-disciplinary team achieve better outcomes.
Craig Yee
Craig is respected across Canada as an authority in Infection Control for Construction. For years, his consulting firm, OHS Global Risk Solutions Ltd. (www.OHSGlobal.ca) has trained, educated and guided contractors across the country, western United States in safe and clean work practices when building and renovating healthcare facilities. Craig contributes his expertise to the technical subcommittee of the CSA Z317.13 Infection Control Standard in Healthcare Construction, Renovation and Maintenance.
Graham Dick
As an internationally recognized authority in property damage restoration, Graham’s knowledge and experience in cleaning, decontamination and infection control has led to consulting and training with many hospitals and general contractors across Canada. Graham is passionate about helping others succeed while keeping patients safe. Graham is a CSA instructor of the Z317.13 Infection Control courses and sits on that standard’s technical committee as well. His three decades of operating Genesis Restorations (www.genesisrestorations.com) has evolved into a passion in helping raise the standard of care in healthcare facility construction, renovations and maintenance.
