Zoonotic Disease Prevention
Prevent humans and pets from getting sick with safe hygiene and handling practices.
Zoonotic diseases are illnesses that can be transmitted between and among humans and animals. This course explains how zoonotic diseases can spread, human and animal symptoms and the steps to take to prevent employees, customers and pets from getting them.
Audience: Employees
Subject: Safety and Animal Care
Course Topics:
Required topics:
Hygiene and Handling, Report & Follow Up, Customer Education
If these animals are in your store, take optional topics
Zoonotic Diseases in:
- Dogs
- Cats
- Small Animals
- Fish
- Birds
- Reptiles and Amphibians
After completing this course, employees should be able to:
- Demonstrate how to properly wash hands and safely handle pets.
- Identify stressful environments that can reduce pets’ resistance to disease.
- Describe signs of disease to look for when visually inspecting pets.
- Identify changes in pet behavior that could indicate health issues.
- Explain diseases that can be transmitted between and among humans and animals.
- List the tasks involved to clean and sanitize different types of animal habitats.
- Describe store policies for reporting employee or animal illness to the store manager.
- Required course topics 1 hour
- All course topics 3.5 hours
- Course test: 10 minutes
Desktop, laptop, or tablet
