Infection control is easy. Achieving consistently high standards of infection control is hard, very hard.  Infection control is dependent upon human behaviour and this is the variable that makes consistent infection control hard to achieve.

This course addresses cleaning, disinfecting and sterilisation techniques and provides the dental practitioner with the knowledge and skills to manage the human element of infection control. The course will demonstrate how a crew resource management approach can lead a dental team into carrying out cleaning, disinfecting and sterilising processes consistently while ensuring established protocols, standards and guidelines are met. 

All healthcare consumers in Australia should be confident about their dental practitioner’s infection control standards and be sure they are committed to patient safety and the quality of their care and services. 

Topics include

• Cleaning processes
• Disinfecting
• Sterilisation
• Human factors in the transmission of infection
• The team approach to infection control
• Validation techniques

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course the dental practitioner will have gained the knowledge and skills necessary to set their practice’s standards for cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation and learn how to objectively validate their effectiveness on an on-going basis using a team-based approach.

Other Information

Practice Managers must be accompanied by their Dentist.