Bloodborne Pathogens Awareness and Exposure Prevention
Understand the risks and protect yourself with everyday precautions that work.
Start Course Now →If your role means you might come into contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials, this course helps you understand the risks and the practical steps that keep you safe. It covers how bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV spread at work, and the controls your employer puts in place to reduce exposure. Written for employees at any experience level, it turns safety requirements into habits you can apply every day.
Walk out able to actually help.
Identify what bloodborne pathogens are and where occupational exposure can happen in your role.
Follow your employer's exposure control plan and the hierarchy of controls that protect you.
Use hand hygiene, sharps safety and personal protective equipment as part of your daily routine.
Know the steps to take if an exposure incident occurs, including hepatitis B vaccination.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Bloodborne Pathogens
Gets you started and explains what bloodborne pathogens are and why they matter at work.
Occupational Exposure and Routes of Transmission
Shows how exposure happens on the job and helps you identify the risks in your own role.
The Exposure Control Plan and Methods of Control
Explains your employer's exposure control plan and the hierarchy of controls used to reduce risk.
Safe Work Practices Every Day
Covers hand hygiene, sharps safety, and the safe handling, disposal and decontamination of materials.
Vaccination and Responding to an Exposure Incident
Looks at hepatitis B vaccination and what to do if an exposure occurs, then brings it all together.
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
- Around two hours of learning
- Twelve focused lessons
- Practical guidance you can apply at work
- Certificate of completion