Universal Precautions are a set of principles designed to keep individuals (both providers and

recipients of services) safe from exposure to infectious organisms and to educate those same

individuals what the appropriate response is should an exposure occur.

This course was specifically designed to review the application of these principles to the settings

in which SLPs practice and will include examples from the school, home health, long-term care

and hospital settings.

We will review the modes of transmission, donning and removing PPE (Personal Protective

Equipment), scene safety, hand hygiene (like those of us who lived though COVID will ever

forget), effective methods of cleaning, and reporting exposures. Time will be provided at the

end of the presentation for participants to ask questions.