Bloodborne Pathogens and Infection Control Awareness
Learn to work safely around blood and body fluids with practical, everyday precautions anyone can apply.
Start Course Now →If your work brings you into contact with blood or other body fluids, knowing how infections spread and how to protect yourself matters. This beginner course walks you through the risks, the precautions, and the steps to take after an exposure, so you can act with confidence. It suits anyone new to infection control or refreshing the basics before returning to a role where exposure is possible.
Walk out able to actually help.
Understand what bloodborne pathogens are and the routes by which they spread at work.
Apply standard and transmission-based precautions to reduce the risk of exposure.
Use and dispose of sharps correctly and follow everyday workplace control measures.
Take the right immediate steps after an exposure and report it properly for follow-up.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Bloodborne Pathogens
What bloodborne pathogens are and the routes through which exposure can happen.
Infection Control Principles
Standard precautions and transmission-based precautions that keep everyone safer.
Safe Practices in the Workplace
Sharps safety, safe disposal, and the control measures used day to day.
Actions After Exposure and Incident Reporting
The immediate steps to take after an exposure and how to report and follow up.
Summary and Course Recap
Key takeaways and best practices to carry back into your role.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Five short, focused lessons areas
- Sharps safety and safe disposal guidance
- Exposure and incident reporting steps
- Certificate of completion