DNV GL India recently launched a Certificate Course for Infection Control Champion: a unique virtual course which brought participants face to face with doctors and experts in the field.
After over 3 months of lockdown, industries have begun to restart business, some despite considerable risks, with due preparedness & by establishing infection risk management processes. This necessitates having key personnel with significant knowledge of the virus itself, various risks, it's impact and safeguarding measures, in order to re-open in a safe and sustainable manner ensuring confidence of all stakeholders.
To address this need of the hour, DNV GL Business Assurance India launched and successfully conducted the first training on "Infection Control Champion" on 25-26 July aiming to provide credible and reliable information to professionals from various backgrounds who could play a pivotal role in shaping their organization's infection risk policy and tackle infection risks in any type and size of institution.
Participants were trained by an eminent panel of virology experts, doctors, infectious disease specialists, microbiologists, experts in PPE, experts in disinfection solutions and management system experts like Dr. Devendra Mourya (Former Director, National Institute of Virology); Dr. Ameet Dravid (Jehangir Hospital), Dr. Dileep Andhare (Occupational Health Physician); Dr. Mrudul Dravid (Prof of Microbiology), Dr. Nishad Dravid (Flint Innovations), Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Gupta (Intrust-Consulting and Hygiea), Suman Ghosal (DNV GL) and Jevanand Rajaram (DNV GL).
The speakers, topics and course methodology were highly praised by the participants:
“I express my profound thanks to DNV GL for the Excellent training sessions on Infection Control Champions. It was well organized online training and all the experts in the field gave their knowledge to common people like me. It will help us to stop not only COVID 19 but also any emerging infections in future. The sessions started on time and ended on time and the connectivity too was very good. Along with me there were 4 others from my organization and they too felt the same. Looking forward to more such sessions in future.”-Seshadri Varadrajan,Usha Fire Safety Equipment.
“Depth is what missing these days and I feel this course has given lot of right knowledge and clarity on usage of PPEs, case studies and especially testing methods. As I play 2 roles as a trainer & auditor, I feel completely enlightened and need to work on more. Hats off for the team who organized this and special regards to the team of awesome speakers. Thanks for the wonderful opportunity.”, Dr. K. Saravanan, Usha Fire Safety Equipment.
There’s a whole lot of informal information floating around on WhatsApp and the internet; however, the way this course was structured, it gave us a very clear perspective of the Virus, the way it behaves, what it does to the human body and how we can best keep prevent, control and treat it. From an organizational perspective, it has given us a lot of clarity of how to set protocols and guidelines. Thanks! -Sangeeta Robinson, PVR Limited.
“Infection control training conducted by DNV GL is very enlightening & informative, certainly it would be helpful to fight against the severe infective dieses like Covid-19, all training chapters were covered very well, specifically the clinical & systems parts. It will be helpful for me to share the information amongst my colleagues.”,Hitesh Kumar Jani, Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd.
Elaborating on the purpose and need of the course, Prakash Tikare, Country Head, DNV GL Business Assurance India said, “Industries require correct guidance, advice and support in this pandemic to restart safely. Plenty of information is available on various public and social media which can be perplexing due contradicting and confusing messages. Our purpose behind this training was to provide factual, reliable and valuable information from those who are in the field and dealing with the virus in close capacity. All doctors and experts selected are authorities in the subject to provide the best possible information based on their knowledge and experience. This training is unique in nature and lives by DNV GL's value of “We Care”, “We Dare” and We Share”."
“DNV GL’s purpose of safeguarding life, property and environment a driving force behind this training. It will help companies build capabilities to fight not only COVID-19 infection but other emerging and re-emerging pathogens. Industry experts pulled together to deliver various modules to cover information which is not available in the public domain. I am sure industries will greatly benefit from this program.”, added DNV GL Business Assurance India Sales Head, Navnath Pendurkar.