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# [Effects of Education Efforts](https://www.viroxanimalhealth.com/resources/talkcleantome/2015/10/effects-of-education-efforts.html)

 Written by [Nicole Kenny](https://www.viroxanimalhealth.com/resources/author/nicole-kenny) | Oct 21, 2015 11:45:00 PM

<http://static1.squarespace.com/static/595689fc9de4bbc892200518/t/59568ac95fd63b5f292876be/1498845285799//img.jpg.com/static/595689fc9de4bbc892200518/t/59568ac95fd63b5f292876bf/1498843849569/1000w/> Learning, teaching, coaching, training, rearing, tutoring  
 are all synonyms for educating.  Whether  
 it’s teaching our children to ride a bike or read a book, coaching or mentoring  
 a colleague, training new staff or retraining current staff, everyone everyday  
 imparts knowledge to others in some way.   
My favorite definition of education is:

*The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge,  
 developing the powers of reasoning and judgement and generally of preparing oneself  
 or others intellectually for mature life.*

* * Certainly, as an educator myself, I hope that with each webinar  
 or seminar I give I am successful in imparting the knowledge I have on the use  
 of disinfectants so that my audience can acquire the ability to reason and  
 stand firm on the decision they have made with respect to their choice of a  
 disinfectant.  This is also why I am so  
 passionate about ensuring we develop a training program that ensures our staff  
 have the knowledge and competencies to do their job.  If they do not, we all lose.  As a manager, we lose because our staff are  
 under performing.  Our staff lose because  
 they do not have the resources to effectively do their job.  Our clients (students, patients, etc) lose  
 because they are now exposed to potentially dangerous pathogens that can make  
 them sick or worse, kill them.

We CANNOT expect our staff to know how to correctly use the  
 products and tools to do their jobs unless we TEACH them how to use  
 them. Certainly in some aspects of our life, such as learning to walk or  
 talk or in my case learning to swim (my mother quite literally “threw” me in  
 the pool as was the rage for teaching babies when I was 4 months old), the  
 concept of THE SINK OR SWIM SQUAD can be an effective learning process. For  
 driving, practicing medicine, ensuring public safety through public health  - and I dare say for using cleaning and  
 disinfecting chemicals - a formal, comprehensive and reproducible education  
 system needs to be in place. Isn’t that the concept behind Young Drivers  
 of Canada or the myriad of Medical or Public Health Schools around the  
 world? Why then is there not a Healthcare Environmental Services School?

If you refer to my [I  
 golf; therefore I am a golfer](http://talkcleantome.blogspot.ca/2012/02/i-golf-therefore-i-am-golfer.html) blog from February 2012 you’ll see that I  
 spoke to this exact topic and laid out the foundation for what I think are the  
 crucial areas that all staff using cleaning and disinfectant products need to  
 be taught.  This still holds true for me  
 now.  In fact I have seen the results  
 myself when this type of training is incorporated.  When you have a staff that have been trained  
 to clean with a detailed process and then have them communicate it back to you  
 and demonstrate how to do it, you can save lives.  Knowledge is power.  Let’s impart our knowledge so our cleaning  
 staff have the power to do their jobs effectively.

* * *Bugging Off!*

*  
*

Nicole

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