Environmental Monitoring - live online, tutor-led training course (two mornings)

By attending this course you will gain knowledge and understanding of the principles behind environmental monitoring and be able to construct, appraise and manage a monitoring plan and it's subsequent results. 

The course will be delivered live online over the course of two mornings (0845 - 1300 hours), participants will be sent login details for a Microsoft Teams session.

• Reasons for sampling the environment; sources and vectors of contamination barriers
• Microorganisms to consider; area of site to consider; pinch points when sampling.
• Microbiological risk assessment; confidence in sampling site selection; relationship between EMP and cleaning schedule. 
• Tools and best practices for sampling; air sampling (ambient and compressed); production zoning. 
• Interpretation of results, managing positive results; action plans; vector swabbing.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Effectively review and audit environmental monitoring programmes. 
• Design and implement appropriate sampling strategies, considering pinch points, sampling methods, and barriers to contamination.
• Effectively set up and monitoring plan by using risk assessments. 
• Set acceptable limits for monitoring results. 
• Analyze and interpret the results of environmental monitoring, understanding what the data indicates about the safety of the processing environment. 
• Understand what action to take in the event of positive results.