Course description
Fitness facilities provide a space to exercise, build endurance, and improve overall physical and mental health to many people worldwide. However, the shared environment, close contact with others, as well as athletic related activities, have an effect on hygiene, which may pose a health risk for the patrons of fitness facilities. Infection prevention and control aim to diminish these risks while providing a safe environment for both athletes and staff.
As fitness professionals, we ought to be informed about possible risks that fitness facilities can carry and have the right tools to protect not only our clients, but also ourselves. This course was designed to give fitness professionals tools in order to help us be mindful of potential risks while also provide effective infection prevention and control tools through everyday practice.
The course will provide basic scientific knowledge about what infections are, and how they can occur in the fitness setting. You will learn about common infections and specific ways to prevent them from spreading in fitness establishments, and acquire tools to conduct evidence-based, safe facility management.
Course Objectives
Participants who take this course will have an understanding of:
- What causes infections, how our body protect us from them, and the basic definitions of infection prevention and control
- The most common infections occurring in fitness facilities, how these infections spread, and what their symptoms are
- COVID-19 and special implications for fitness facilities: infection prevention and control during the COVID-19 pandemic, official guideline recommendations, and additional measures that might aid the optimal operation of fitness facilities during the pandemic
- Ways in which different types of infection transmission can be minimized, and helpful suggestions for everyday practice and key areas of concern
- Administrative policies for optimal infection prevention and control, how infection risks might be reduced by the optimal management of fitness facilities
Course Content
- Immune system: how does it work?
- When do infections occur and how can we prevent them?
- Types of pathogens
- Common infection symptoms
- Sources and types of infections
- Vaccinations and their role in infection prevention and control
- Sanitation definitions
- Most common infection types in fitness facilities
- Patrons showing signs of infections: what to do?
- Common respiratory viruses in gyms
- Flu in gyms
- Other potential viruses in gyms
- Common bacterial infections in gyms
- Less common bacterial infections in gyms
- Rare, but highly infectious bacterial transmission in gyms
- Resistant bacterial infections in gyms
- Fungal infections in gyms
- Blood mediated infections in gyms
- COVID-19 in gyms: occurrence
- COVID-19 in gyms: risk of infection
- COVID-19: specific measures to reduce risk in fitness facilities
- COVID-19 in gyms: following local pandemic recommendations
- User awareness of infection risk management
- The trainers’ role in reducing infection risks
- Limiting transmission through direct contact
- What is a safe distance?
- Handwashing guidelines
- Promoting handwashing and disinfecting
- Optimal personal hygiene
- Promoting personal hygiene
- Limiting environmental transmission: surface disinfection of commonly used spaces
- Limiting environmental transmission: surface disinfection of athletic equipment
- Disinfecting difficult-to-clean equipment
- Types of disinfectants: ensuring effective infection prevention
- Points of high infection risks: restrooms, showers
- Reducing aerosol transmission: Limiting maximal capacity
- Reducing aerosol transmission: Mask use
- Reducing aerosol transmission: Importance of indoor air quality and air circulation
- Reducing aerosol transmission: Cleaning of liquid reservoirs
- Limiting transmission through ingestion
- Limiting transmission through vectors
- Textile and laundry handling
- Waste handling
- Providing first aid: tending to open wounds
- Providing first aid to a person with suspected infection
- Providing first aid: administering CPR
- Health screening protocols
- Employee health maintenance
- Limiting fitness facility associated outbreaks: Suspension of operation and adequate sanitizing
- Limiting fitness facility-associated outbreaks: Disclosure and contact tracing
- Informing visitors about local infection control efforts
- Liability issues concerning infection control
- Business operation interventions to limit infection risks
- Infection control management: staff requirements and training
- Infection control considerations for spa services
- Infection control considerations for pools, saunas, and steam rooms
- Infection control considerations for one-on-one classes
- Infection control considerations for designing a fitness center
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