Elevate your health & safety program.
Meet your legal occupational health and safety obligations. Do everything reasonably possible in the circumstances to protect your workers and support the health and safety of the workplace through a robust infection prevention & control program.
Decrease
Employee absenteeism & presenteeism
Reduce
Risk of disruption to daily operations & living quarters
Prevent
WSIB claims related to infectious agents
Support
Healthy workplaces & communities
What puts worksites & work camps
at risk for infectious disease transmission?
Various factors can attribute to an increased spread of infectious diseases amongst industrial worksites & work camps.
When conditions are favourable, infections can spread rapidly to a large number of people and can cause disruption to facility operations.
The management of infectious diseases and outbreaks in industrial worksites & work camps requires a comprehensive approach. Infection control professionals, public health, employers, contractors & workers need to work together in collaboration to prevent the spread of illness.
Employee Travel
Persons in industrial settings & who live in camps often travel back and fourth between widespread geographical locations. Increased travel has the potential to bring a variety of infectious agents within the fence.
Close Working & Living Quarters
Highly transmissible infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses, can spread quick and fast in work camps as well as in working conditions where workers are required to work in close proximity together for extended periods of time.
Nature of Industrial Shift Work & Baseline Health Status of Workers
Shift work along with a varying degrees of health status among workers can increase an individuals susceptibility to infection.
How Superior IPAC Solutions Can Support Your Operations
We are dedicated to providing specialized knowledge, expertise and services that align with the vision of our clients
✓ Identifies areas of risk
✓ Implements IPAC interventions using the hierarchy of controls
✓ Works together with Occupational Health & JHSCs
Perform Organizational Risk Assessments
We’ll work together with your occupational health & safety team and joint health and safety committee to identify areas of risk related to infection prevention & control.
Based on an organizational risk assessment, Superior IPAC Solutions can support your workplace in implementing infection prevention measures across all levels of the hierarchy to include elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative & PPE controls.
Superior IPAC Solutions recognizes no single measure alone will provide workers with the best possible protection and that organizations require multiple approaches beginning with the most effective controls first.
Ensure Policies & Procedures Are In Place,
Up to Date, and
Reviewed Regularly
We can help your workplace develop policies & procedures that align with best practice standards, guidelines and legislation applicable to your setting. Examples of types of policy and procedures we can assist with include:
- Outbreak preparation, prevention, response & management
- Cleaning, sterilization & disinfection
- Return to work following infectious illness
- Sharps safety & prevention of blood borne illness
- Waste management
- Prevention of Waterborne Pathogens
- Employee Immunization
- Hand hygiene, hand care & prevention of contact dermatitis
- Infection Prevention & Control for Clinical Offices
✓ Evidence-based
✓ Up-to-date
✓ Customized to your workplace
✓ On site or virtual
✓ Customized to your
workplace
Provide Staff with Education & Awareness Training
Ensure workers are equipped with the knowledge and skills to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in your organization. Superior IPAC Solutions can provide training and education as needed, on a routine basis or during the orientation/onboarding process. All education can be custom tailored to each workplace.
General IPAC Awareness Training
We can provide your workplace with general infection prevention & control awareness training to include basic principles of IPAC and ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Occupational Health
Includes screening for signs and symptoms of illness, staying home when sick, reporting requirements, importance of immunizations and options for vaccination.
Education for occupational healthcare providers also includes sharps safety, prevention of bloodborne pathogens, & proper use of PPE.
Outbreak Management
Ensure workers, supervisors, and management are aware of their roles and responsibilities to prepare, prevent, manage & respond to an outbreak.
Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene is the single most effective way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. When performed correctly, hand hygiene leads to prevention of infections as well as improved health and safety.
Ensure workers are equipped with the knowledge of knowing how and when to perform hand hygiene as well as how they can protect their hands to promote optimal skin health and prevent contact dermatitis.
Standard Environmental Cleaning
Proper cleaning & disinfection of the physical environment is imperative to reducing the ability of infectious diseases to spread amongst other individuals.
We can provide education to both cleaning & housekeeping services as well as onsite occupational healthcare providers
Other Customized Education & Training
Didn’t find what you’re looking for? Wen can work with you to develop customized education & training based on the unique needs of your workplace.
Conduct Audits
Our auditing tools enhance and monitor compliance with current infection prevention and control practices. Areas for auditing include:
- Clinical offices (i.e. occupational health spaces)
- Occupational health & safety programs
- Outbreak preparedness, prevention, management & response
- Personal protective equipment – includes supporting PPE equipment in clinical offices & PPE use by healthcare professionals
- Management of cleaning & disinfection products
- Closet, carts & supply rooms for housekeeping and cleaning services
✓ Identifies gaps or areas
requiring improvement
✓ Individualized reports
✓ Feedback & suggestions
✓ Considers specific selection criteria
✓ Assists with standardizing products
✓ Supports inventory reduction
Assist with Product Selection & Evaluation
Having an IPAC Professional assist you with product selection and evaluation can help your organization consider specific criteria when purchasing infection prevention and control products – this can include quality, costs, health and safety and environmental sustainability. Proper selection and evaluation of products can help provide assistance with standardization and reduction of overall inventory within your organization.
Implement Targeted Health Campaigns
Allow your workers to make informed decisions about their health. We can help implement targeted health campaigns in the workplace with a goal to support healthy behaviours; to prevent disease; to improve knowledge & skills; and to direct employees on receiving appropriate health screenings, immunizations and follow-up care toward specific infectious diseases.
✓ Improve employee awareness
✓ Support healthy behaviours
✓ Allow employees to take control of their health
Service Plans
Individual Services
Comprehensive Services:
✓ Dedicated, professional and timely
✓Customized to your workplace
✓ Evidence-based
✓ Expert knowledge from Certified Infection Preventionists
✓ In-person or virtual meetings
Monthly or Annual Support
In addition to our comprehensive service features, monthly & annual support comprises:
✓Unlimited access to all services
✓Continuous 1:1 support for your team
✓Tailored Solutions
✓Top-tier assistance
✓On-site availability
Do you still have inquiries?
Unable to find the sought-after solutions? Let’s have a discussion.