Mandating this bloodborne pathogen safety course is for the protection of you, your family and friends, your co-workers and those that use the facilities that you clean. Taking this course informs you, and your company, of the need for them to provide you with the proper PPE and to provide you with the proper procedures and solutions to be effective in the environment you clean. 

Now that you have the proper PPE, procedures and solutions, this course now gives you direction to help keep you safe on the job if you come into contact with items that could cause you to become ill or infected. And, as you go about your job cleaning and disinfecting this course also helps you understand that you are not just "cleaning" but you are making an area safer for those that use the facility.

This course provides you with early warning symptoms to watch out for and what to do if you think you are ill. It also suggests that the written control and exposure plan is available for you to read and that the company should provide you with a copy if asked.

As they said in the video, "a good defense is a thorough offense" and the more you know the safer you are.