Best Practices in Health Care Construction
Professionals in Infection Prevention are in the business of saving lives. The construction professionals of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters are key partners in this mission.
Rising to the COVID-19 Challenge
Online Training Made Carpenters Ready to Meet Healthcare’s Needs
The COVID-19 crisis has amplified the need for effective Infection Prevention strategies in healthcare facilities. The increased demand for emergency renovations, surge centers, and facility upgrades illustrates the vital role that well-trained construction professionals must play in helping to create and implement those strategies.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) is at the forefront of the construction industry as an infection prevention partner. For more than a decade, trained Union Carpenters have helped many prominent healthcare providers design and build infection prevention solutions.
At the onset of the pandemic, our training program mobilized. The result? A speedy rollout of special online qualification training for construction workers to safely meet the healthcare industry’s emergency and ongoing needs.
Available through the Carpenters International Training Fund’s online Learning Management System are ICRA Best Practices in Health Care Construction (Refresher); ICRA Awareness; and two new courses to prepare for construction work during the COVID-19 pandemic: COVID-19 Preparedness Qualification and Pandemic/COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Supervisor Course. Our UBC members receive electronic verification upon successful completion of the courses, which allows efficient dispatch to healthcare jobsites.
The COVID-19 courses were distributed across the U.S. and Canada and made accessible to all UBC partner contractors. Many are providing the COVID-19 Preparedness Qualification training to every craft worker on their jobs. More than 50,000 UBC members had taken the Qualification training by Fall 2020.
Thanks to our extensive training and dispatch networks and up-to-the-minute understanding of the Infection Prevention field, UBC-ICRA was able to respond immediately to this unprecedented challenge and UBC-ICRA regional councils have been able to deploy hundreds of well-trained qualified carpenters where they are needed.
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