Allergen Awareness Training

Good day,  I am needing to do allergen awareness training throughout our facility, and need training material that is suitable for two different sections of the workforce, firstly basic information for the floor workers who are not all literate, and secondly, for the more senior staff members.   i would appreciate assistance in this regard please.  Thank you .  Sharon .  South Africa

Hi Shareone ,

For workers I prefer localized presentation with photos from the facility illustrating what is the allergen present in the facility and what is required from them , like do and do not .

for senor team , the below links may be helpful ,

http://allergenburea.../span>_0107.pdf

http://allergenburea...16</span>_2.pdf

Free online training

http://allergytraini...nteractive.aspx

http://allergytraini...gov.uk/english/

Best regards,

Ehab

Thank you very much Ehab, your advice is very valuable, and I will have a look on the links.

Hi Shareone ,

 

For workers I prefer localized presentation with photos from the facility illustrating what is the allergen present in the facility and what is required from them , like do and do not .

 

for senor team , the below links may be helpful ,

 

 

http://allergenburea.../span>_0107.pdf

http://allergenburea...16</span>_2.pdf

 

 

 

Free online training

 

http://allergytraini...nteractive.aspx

http://allergytraini...gov.uk/english/

 

Best regards,

 

Ehab

Very nice slides, except for one piece of information in the presentation.  Allergies are not autoimmune disorders.  Autoimmune disorders are when the body attacks something that is part of itself.  Examples of autoimmune disorders are rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and Grave's Disease, among many others.

http://www.healthlin...rders#Overview1

Allergies are when the body mounts a specific type of response (usually by producing IgE antibodies to a protein or other type of molecule) to a component of something external that should be benign, such as pollen, food, animal dander, latex, certain plant oils, or many others.

A good example of the difference is celiac sprue disease, which is an autoimmune disorder involving a reaction to gluten that targets intestinal cells but it is not an allergy.

You can produce an allergic response using a non-protein molecule (like the metal nickel) because it binds to the body's proteins and thus the body recognizes the combination as foreign.  The immune system does not attack the body's proteins by themselves, only when the material (called a hapten) is bound to it.  The US plant called Poison Ivy works like that; the oil on the leaves binds to skin proteins as it passes through and people become allergic to it.  On its own, it is benign.  It makes us realize that we must always remember the lesson of poison ivy, because we never know what will hapten.  That's a very bad Immunology pun, lol!

The distinction between allergy and autoimmunity is important, and is often confusing to most people.  Immunology is a complex and fascinating field, and we still don't know a lot about it.  I loved working in Immunology research for many years, and I still keep up with it.  Lots of fun!

Martha