Give staff paid time to do the training you require of them

Infection prevention and control training in healthcare is universally
required and widely resented, and the reason is usually not the content.

The first recommendation in this section is addressed to **healthcare
organisation leaders and administrators**, and it is not about curriculum:

**5.a. Provide healthcare personnel dedicated time during their normal work
hours to complete occupational infection prevention and control education and
training.**

Why that is the first thing said

A mandate without protected time is a mandate to do the training somewhere
else: at the end of a shift, during a break, or at home. In practice it gets
done badly, late, or clicked through — and the organisation records 100%
compliance either way.

Naming it as a recommendation, to the people who control rotas and budgets,
makes the time an explicit cost of the requirement rather than something
absorbed silently by staff.

It also reflects who can actually fix it. A nurse cannot grant themselves an
hour; an administrator can.

The second recommendation, and who it is for

5.b. is addressed to occupational health services leaders and staff,
and asks them to **collaborate with the appropriate departments or
individuals** in the organisation.

The split across the two is deliberate. Occupational health knows what the
training should contain; it does not control whether anyone has time to
attend. Infection control that lives entirely inside one department is
infection control that stops at the department's door.

This sits in Part I — Infrastructure and Routine Practices of the guideline
Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel, which is the part about building
the conditions for the practices rather than the practices themselves.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.