IF-06022020-03   

HSN/2 HOURS

Cost-$25/Person

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This training session is open to Maryland's early childhood professionals. Join Andrew Roszak, Executive Director of the Institute for Childhood Preparedness for a LIVE ZOOM Training Session!

Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting Your Program

The training session will discuss cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting techniques to use at your program during the coronavirus pandemic. The training will also discuss the differences between cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting. We will examine the recommended chemicals/agents to use in these processes, discuss laundry considerations, and include information about the proper use and storage of cleaning materials. Specific information will be provided about addressing laundry, toys, and playgrounds.

Learning Goals and Objectives:

• Define the differences between cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting.
• Identify when cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting are appropriate.
• Discuss the policies/procedures that should be used to clean laundry, toys, and playgrounds.
• Identify proper labeling and storage of chemicals and cleaning products.
• Identify the numbers to call for help if there is a chemical exposure.
• Discuss special considerations related to cleaning during the coronavirus

Andrew Roszak, JD, MPA, EMT-Paramedic, serves as the executive director for the Institute for Childhood Preparedness, as Chief of Preparedness, Health and Environment for the Region II Head Start Association and as an adjunct professor in the school of community and environmental health at Old Dominion University. For the past six years, he has been working full time on emergency preparedness, response and recovery issues impacting the early childhood sector – child care and family child care programs, afterschool care, Head Start and Early Head Start. Roszak was formerly the Senior Director of Emergency Preparedness at Child Care Aware of America, Senior Public Health Advisor for the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Emergency Care Coordination Center and Senior Director of Environmental Health, Pandemic Preparedness and Catastrophic Response at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, where he worked each day to help prepare communities and the healthcare sector for pandemics and disasters. Roszak began his emergency preparedness career as a firefighter, paramedic and is certified as a hazardous materials technician and in hazardous materials operations. Roszak also served as Health Policy Fellow for the United States Senate Budget and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees during the 110th and 111th Congress. Roszak is admitted to practice law in Illinois, the District of Columbia and before the US Supreme Court.