The UBC ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) programs are a result of years of research, collaboration, and development with healthcare professionals and contractors throughout the United States and Canada. With one shared vision, we are helping to protect patients from secondary infections and illnesses during construction and renovation projects in healthcare facilities. Creating a common goal, and a plan to be more efficient, stay on budget and ensure the safest possible work environment.
Through training we help ensure the health and safety of every patient,
facility personnel, and tradesperson. It is our number one priority.
Our programs educate through collaboration, participation in discussions, as well as small group activities. Learning is side by side with carpenters, other trades, and facility personnel. Classes are instructed by carpenters who understand and have experience in healthcare projects and ICRA Best Practices.
ICRA 24 Hour: Best Practices in Health-care Facilities
Our flagship 24-hour intensive worker qualification course, including classroom and hands-on modules in facility-simulated environments.
The course trains carpenters in containing pathogens, protecting patients and working efficiently without disrupting operations in occupied facilities. Training is conducted at more than 200 regional training centers across the U.S. and Canada
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ICRA 8 Hour Awareness
An eight-hour course geared for members of signatory contractors or subcontractors that perform work on the healthcare jobsite. The course is valuable for healthcare facility employees and others who may visit jobsites.
ICRA 8 Hour Awareness has reached over 30,000 healthcare professionals and building trades workers throughout the United States and Canada.
As a healthcare professional there is no cost to you or your facility, and our programs educate through collaboration, participation in discussions, as well as small group activities. Classes are instructed by carpenters who understand and have experience in healthcare projects and ICRA Best Practices.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC), an APIC Strategic Partner, has always been at the forefront of education and training in the area of infection control and the building trades. Not only does the UBC train our own members, but we also have educational programs that train other workers from other trades as well as site professionals. This training creates transparency and develops partnership. This initiative allows everyone involved in the construction process to be on the same page and have the same goals through a common ground – training and patient safety.
Take charge of your health care facility’s contamination protocol. Require your contractor to have trained and tested carpenters skilled in life-saving Best Practices in Health Care Construction in Occupied Facilities.
