Personal Hygiene at Work

As a manager, you’re probably used to dealing with tough situations: employees who insist on being late, team members who miss deadlines, and staff members who can’t get along. But conversations about an employee’s personal hygiene at work appearance are a whole different ball game. It’s something that we often avoid talking about, or worse, make light of. This course has two major themes. First, we’ll give you a framework for having those tough conversations. We’ll also give you some guidelines for customizing that framework for your organization. Then, we’ll look at some common tough conversations that come up, including body odor, flatulence, poor clothing and hair decisions, and bad breath. At the end of the course participants will have a chance to role play a tough situation. You’ll walk away well prepared for any kind of challenging conversation.

What Will Students Learn?

• Identify the advantages to having tough conversations
• Describe the components to a behavior modification conversation
• Use the organization’s resources to help them deal with hygiene issues
• Overcome barriers that employees put up when discussing hygiene problems
• Resolve hygiene issues such as bad hair days, inappropriate piercings and body art, poor clothing choices, bad breath, body odor, excessive gas, and incontinence
• Nip poor hygiene habits in the bud
• Identify ways to encourage good hygiene in the workplace

Following topics are included in personal hygiene in the workplace course;

Unit 1

Guidelines for Difficult Conversations

The unit 1 covers the following topics:

• Guidelines for Difficult Conversations
• Overcoming Objections

Unit 2

Resolving Hygiene Issues at Workplaces

The unit 2 covers the following topics:

• Addressing Piercings and Body Artwork
• Helping Employees Dress for Success
• Bad Breath
• Body Odor
• Gastrointestinal Issues
• Bad Habits

This insightful course is less about career development, more about improving your ability to deal with difficult situations.  If you oversee a team of any size or nature whatsoever, it is important to know how, when and in what manner to address issues such as these.  Failure to address problems where they occur can have an impact on the whole business – as can addressing them in the wrong way.  From team leaders to business managers to small business owners and so on, your communication skills and tact when it comes to the most sensitive of issues can and will have wider repercussions.

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme.  This means that Certifications for Professional Development Limited (CPD) has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 1 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner. 

The course itself has been designed by Certifications for Professional Development Limited (CPD) to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. ABC Awards/Certa endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met.  A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

ABC Awards and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. ABC Awards and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.

Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, ABC Awards and Certa Awards also offer regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.

• Team leaders, supervisors and anyone working in people management
• Business owners, senior management, HR and recruiters
• Entrepreneurs looking to set up their own businesses
• Anyone interested in enhancing overall workplace performance