Course Description:

This course addresses the common safety-related factors in the community and home environments. Home care team members can be exposed to a number of potentially serious hazards, which range from dangerous pets (read: biting) to firearms (guns) in homes. Environmental hazards include smoke, needle sticks, unhygienic homes, germs and pathogens, structural house problems, hoarding, and many others. This course seeks to identify some of these safety hazards and dangers so that clinicians and managers/leaders can better understand and apply their risk management and safety policies related to such situations and protect their team members.