Waste Prevention Training

Healthcare Risk Waste Training

Healthcare Waste Management E-learning is available to Stericycle customers who are a HSE facility.

The Stericycle Healthcare Waste Management CPD accredited e-learning course has been designed to help keep:

  • your healthcare facility compliant
  • your employees safe by raising awareness of the risks and penalties of incorrect waste management.

The course takes around an hour to complete and is broken down into bite sized modules, each with their own knowledge check, that can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.

To access training:

Please contact your Stericycle Account Manager officer or climate.action@hse.ie

Waste Reduction Training

The Green Healthcare Programme (GHCP) is an initiative of HSE Capital and Estates Climate Action & Sustainability Office. The GHCP has collated healthcare specific good practices on waste reduction and recycling from observations in healthcare facilities around Ireland.

The overall aim of the training is to provide a non-technical overview of healthcare waste management.

The Target Audience for the training is:

  • HSE staff members or budget holders in a hospital or community health setting
  • Managers responsible for waste
  • Interested members of staff
  • HSE Green Team members
To register for online training

To register for training please complete the following form

Waste Reduction Training Registration

To view training on HSELanD

Waste Reduction Training is also available on the HSE online learning portal HSELanD

To access training click the Discovery Zone tile on the HSELanD Home Page and search for ‘waste’.

Get help on the registration help page if you have difficulty creating a HSELanD account.

Food Waste Reduction Training

The Green Healthcare Programme (GHCP) is an initiative of HSE Capital and Estates Climate Action & Sustainability Office. The GHCP has collated healthcare specific good practices on food waste reduction from observations in healthcare facilities around Ireland.

We are offering food waste reduction training - both in person and on-line.

In-person training

Reducing food waste in Irish hospitals – a workshop for all catering staff.

The overall aim of the training is to provide:

  • an overview of the issue of food waste
  • good practices for food waste reduction in Irish healthcare facilities
  • an interactive session among staff to identify the main waste types

The Target Audience for the training is:

All healthcare catering staff involved in the production of food for patient services at both ward level and canteens.

To arrange training:

Please contact Green Healthcare contactus@greenhealthcare.ie and we will organise times and dates that suit the relevant personnel at each location.

Online training

Reducing food waste in Irish hospitals – guidance for catering managers

The overall aim of the training is to provide guidance on:

  • how to go about examining food waste
  • identifying potential for food waste reduction

The Target Audience for the training is:

  • HSE Acute & Non-Acute Catering Officers
  • HSE Catering Managers/Heads of Catering,
  • HSE Catering Supervisors
  • Catering contractors.
To register for online training 

To register for training please complete the following form

Food Waste Training Registration

To view training on HSELanD

Food Waste Reduction Training is also available on the HSE online learning portal HSELanD

To access training click the Discovery Zone tile on the HSELanD Home Page and search for ‘waste’.

Get help on the registration help page if you have difficulty creating a HSELanD account.