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1 Year Access 
Intermediate
3 Students 
1 hour, 55 minutes 
Sharps Training is a comprehensive course designed to strengthen sharps safety and infection control practices in clinical environments. It focuses on preventing needlestick injury, reducing exposure to bloodborne pathogens, and improving clinical safety. It emphasizes PPE usage and risk prevention strategies essential for maintaining a safe healthcare workplace standards and compliance.
The curriculum covers regulations concerning sharps, safe handling procedures, and effective risk prevention strategies. Learners explore duties and responsibilities of personnel, focusing on infection control, PPE application, and medical waste management. Each module reinforces sharps safety principles, reducing needlestick injury risks while enhancing compliance and overall clinical safety in healthcare settings.
Sharps Training concludes with safe disposal of sharps and medical waste, ensuring strict infection control and risk prevention. Learners complete assessments across Modules 01–06, reinforcing safe handling procedures and clinical safety standards. The course builds competence in sharps safety, reducing needlestick injury hazards and promoting best practice in healthcare environments.
Learners take a multiple-choice exam that is automatically marked. The exam evaluates their understanding of the course content, and learners must achieve at least 60% to pass. Successful learners receive a CPD-certified certificate.
After completing the Sharps Training course assessment, you will be eligible to receive a CPD-accredited certificate worth £9 from One Education to demonstrate your achievement.
The certificate is also available as a printed hard copy delivered by post for £15.
Studying Sharps Training helps learners understand the safe handling, use, and disposal of sharp instruments such as needles and blades. It highlights the risks of injury, infection control measures, and correct procedures for maintaining workplace safety.
This course equips individuals with practical skills to reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens and respond effectively to sharps incidents. It promotes safe working practices, legal compliance, and a safer environment for both staff and service users.
The Sharps Training Course has a total study time of 1 hour, 55 minutes. Learners can complete the programme at a flexible, self-paced schedule, allowing them to develop essential knowledge of safe handling, disposal, and risk prevention related to sharps in a way that fits comfortably around their availability and learning needs.
The Sharps Training course is suitable for learners working in healthcare, laboratories, social care, waste management, and any environment where needles or sharp instruments are used or disposed of. No prior qualifications are required. Participants need basic literacy skills, internet access, and a device for online study. An interest in safe handling of sharps, infection prevention, and workplace safety is essential.
It is a health and safety course that teaches how to safely handle, use, and dispose of sharp medical instruments such as needles, blades, and scalpels to prevent injury and infection.
It is suitable for healthcare workers, nurses, doctors, laboratory staff, cleaners, and anyone who may come into contact with sharps in the workplace.
You will learn safe handling techniques, correct disposal methods, use of sharps containers, infection prevention, and what to do in case of injury.
No, it is designed for beginners and general healthcare or workplace safety training.
It prevents needlestick injuries, reduces infection risk, and ensures safe clinical and laboratory environments.
| Module 01: Introduction to Sharps | |||
| Introduction to Sharps | 00:09:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 01 | |||
| Module 01 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 02: Regulations Concerning Sharps | |||
| Regulations Concerning Sharps | 00:07:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 02 | |||
| Module 02 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 03: Safe Handling Procedures | |||
| Safe Handling Procedures | 00:11:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 03 | |||
| Module 03 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 04: Reducing the Associated Risks | |||
| Reducing the Associated Risks | 00:12:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 04 | |||
| Module 04 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 05: Duties and Responsibilities of Personnel | |||
| Duties and Responsibilities of Personnel | 00:08:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 05 | |||
| Module 05 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 06: Safe Disposal of Sharps | |||
| Safe Disposal of Sharps | 00:08:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 06 | |||
| Module 06 Final Exam | 00:10:00 | ||
