Communicable diseases
A common point of entry for bloodborne pathogens
What is a cut or sharps injury?
The number of times the pool volume moves through filtration in 24 hours.
What is the turnover rate?
Waste generated from a hospital or medical research facility.
What is biomedical waste?
From 60℃ to 20℃ within 2 hours or less and
from 20℃ to 4℃ within 4 hours or less.
What is the safe temperature and timeframe for cooling foods?
The 7 Cs are credibility, context, content, clarity, channels, audience capabilities, continuity and consistency.
What is Risk Communication?
Vaccine using a weakened form of the germ to cause a similar reaction to natural infection.
What is a live attenuated vaccine?
The application of strategies such as source control, removal and dilution of air.
What is indoor air quality management?
Liquid waste and run-off collected at the bottom of a cell.
What is leachate?
The steps include:
Conduct a hazard analysis
Determine critical control points (CCPs)
Establish critical limits
Determine procedures to monitor CCPs
Establish corrective action
Establish procedures for verification
Record keeping
What are the 7 principles of HACCP?
The following procedure forces a person /owner/ landlord/ or establishment to allow for access, vacate premises, utilities and repair, compliance for a dog bite or disease, and establishment closures.
What is the Court of Queen's Bench Orders?
The three parts of the epidemiological triangle.
What is the agent, host and environment?
Includes a site, floor, structural and mechanical plan.
What is a Pool Permit?
Principle legislation governing waste management.
What is the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act?
Blood from thawing ground turkey dripping onto fresh produce stored on the shelf below.
Raw chicken prepared with a knife and cutting board. The surface and utensils are not thoroughly cleaned and sanitized after use and are subsequently used to prepare a salad.
What are examples of direct and indirect cross-contamination?
This pathogen causes meningitis, encephalitis, mimics the flu and can cause abortions in pregnant women. It has an incubation period of three to seventy days. The sources of this pathogen includes soil, water, damp environments, both domestic and wild animals. It is found in waterfowl most commonly. Foods impacted included ice cream, ready to eat lunch meats and unpasteurized milk.
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
Number of people needed for short term toxicity testing in vaccine development.
What is 20-80?
These criteria set limits on microbiological, radiological, chemical and physical parameters to protect human health over a lifetime.
What is the Maximum Acceptable Concentration (MAC)?
Provides eco-station collection sites to allow materials such as paint, used oil, electronics and tires to be refurbished, reused, or remade in other processes and products. Works in conjunction with other stakeholders and industries to reduce waste and make connections.
What is the Alberta Recycling Management Authority (ARMA)?
The purpose is to reduce violations that cause foodborne illness, educate operators, establish a working relationship with the operator, and identify trends. The purpose is to fulfill legislative requirements and track activities for program indicators, public disclosure, accountability and surveillance purposes.
What is the importance of food establishment inspections?
The following method is applied when dealing with the following cases; several persons with diarrhea, a person with bloody diarrhea or a confirmed case of a pathogen. Public health must be informed if there are a minimum of two people infected.
What is Gastrointestinal Outbreak Management?
Two most common sites for hospital-acquired infections.
What are surgical site infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia?
A method used in conjunction with Escherichia coli, total coliform, turbidity and disinfection residual monitoring to ensure safe drinking water. The primary focus is on monitoring bacteria growth in the water treatment and distribution system. It can indicate a failure of the disinfection process in pool environments.
What is a Heterotrophic Plate Count?
A part of one of the steps to ensure water is safe to return to the environment; the addition of alum and a polymer, flocculation, plate settling, sludge and scum collection, and air scouring.
What is Enhanced Primary Treatment?
This method is often used when ignorance is the cause. Not only does this method improve the knowledge of the operator but also fosters a cooperative relationship. This method is often used before further enforcement actions are taken.
What is the importance of educating operators?
This substance is found in housing products, building materials, and unvented appliances that burn fuel, such as kerosenes and gas stoves. The properties of the substance are flammable, colourless and a strong-odour.
What is Formaldehyde?