4-hour ICRA Certification Course

ICRA Certificationfor Healthcare Construction

Classify the work, pick the containment, write the permit, keep the paperwork a surveyor will ask for. Take it online at your own pace, or we teach it in person with your crew. There is an exam at the end. Pass it and your signed certification comes by email.

Taught by the team who wrote the current standard. Accepted by health systems, general contractors, and owners as proof of ICRA training before work in the healthcare environment can begin.

$375per seat · group rates from 10 seats
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Taught by Robert Booth, MPH, CIH · Olivia Stemke, MPH, PMP · John Martinez, MPH, CIH
4 hours
Approximately four hours of course time, at your own pace
$375 / seat
Group rates from 10 seats
Online or on site
Self-paced, or in person with your crew
Final Exam
Scenario based final exercises and questions to prepare you for real projects
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Overview

What this course is

ICRA is the process of preparing for construction work in healthcare, one of the most sensitive environments for renovation. Dust, water, and air moving out of your work area carry what makes people sick to the people least able to fight it. About 5,000 secondary infections a year in US healthcare facilities trace back to construction, renovation, and maintenance work.

This is the four-hour Infection Control Risk Assessment ICRA certification. It covers how to classify the work, choose containment that fits it, write the permit, and hold documentation that stands up when a surveyor walks the job.

Most hospitals and general contractors want proof of ICRA training before construction begins. This certification is built to prepare your teams to safely work in the healthcare environment.

Occupied hospital corridor with temporary containment barriers and a negative air machine
Occupied hospital corridor under containment. This is the environment the course is built around.
Course Outline

Learn ICRA from start to finish and feel confident operating in healthcare environments

01

Why ICRA exists

  • How dust, water, and air movement out of a work area reach patients
  • Documented infections traced back to construction and maintenance work
  • Who carries the responsibility on a job in an occupied building
02

Classifying the work

  • Patient risk groups and what puts a unit in each one
  • Construction activity types, from a ceiling tile to a full gut
  • Putting the two together to land on the right ICRA class
  • Worked examples using real scopes of work
03

Containment and controls

  • Temporary barriers, hard panel and soft
  • Anterooms and how people and material get in and out
  • Negative pressure, what it takes to hold it, and how to verify it
  • HEPA filtration and air scrubbers
  • Traffic routes, debris removal, and cleaning
04

Permits and documentation

  • Writing an ICRA permit for a real scope
  • Daily checks, who signs, and what gets logged
  • What surveyors and accreditors ask to see
  • Closeout, final cleaning, and demobilization
05

Case studies

  • Review three real world healthcare construction scenarios, determine ICRA class, precautions, and strategies
  • Complete interactive exercises to prepare your team for real world projects
  • See through the eyes of facilities management, infection preventionists, and contractors to understand the full picture
06

Exam

  • The course ends with an exam covering the full process
  • Consists of interactive scenario based exercises you will likely encounter in the field
  • Pass, and your certification is emailed to you, signed by Robert Booth, your lead instructor and the co-author of the ICRA 2.0 standard
In the Room

What a class looks like

We teach contractors, trades, and facilities teams every month, in person and online.

Robert Booth teaching an ICRA class to a room of contractors and trade workers
Robert Booth walking a contractor crew through the ICRA process.
Trade workers at a table filling out ICRA permit paperwork during a class exercise
Table exercise: crews classify a real scope of work and fill out the permit.
Class watching a presentation slide about construction dust
Dust is the whole problem. The course starts with where it goes.
Robert Booth speaking at the PDC Summit
Robert presenting at the PDC Summit.
Formats

Two ways to take it

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Online, self-paced

Enroll and start the same hour. Four hours of instruction, an exam at the end, and your signed certification by email.

  • No scheduled start date
  • Four hours of instruction
  • Exam at the end
  • Certification signed by the standard's co-authors
  • Monthly live office hours included
$375 / seat
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In person, at your site

We come to your facility or job trailer and teach your crew together. The exercises use the work your people are actually doing. Tell us how many you need trained and when.

  • On site at your facility or office
  • Private session for your team
  • Scheduled around your project calendar
  • Same exam and same certification
  • Group pricing
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Who It’s For

Who takes this course

  • Superintendents, project managers, and estimators
  • Foremen and trade crews working in occupied facilities
  • Facilities managers, maintenance techs, and in-house shops
  • Safety and EHS managers
  • Infection preventionists and infection control practitioners
  • Architects and designers on healthcare projects

No prior ICRA experience needed.

Healthcare construction project under way
If your work happens inside a running hospital, someone is going to ask for your ICRA card.
The Certification

Final Scenarios and Exercises

The course ends with an exam.

  • Covers the full process, from classifying the work through permits, containment, and closeout
  • Pass it and your certification is emailed to you
  • Send that certificate to any facility, general contractor, or owner that asks for proof of ICRA training before work starts
  • Sites set their own refresher intervals, so check what yours requires and call us if you need help sorting it out
Robert Booth presenting an ICRA exercise slide during a training session
After the Course

Monthly office hours, free

Everyone who takes the course can join our live Zoom office hours, once a month. Bring a question off your own job: how to classify an odd activity, what a surveyor will look for, which containment fits a tight space. Past sessions stay posted on the site.

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Your Instructors

Who teaches it

The instructors helped write ICRA 2.0 and work healthcare construction projects every week, hospitals and surgery centers around the country. The case studies come out of that work.

Robert Booth, MPH, CIH · ICRA 2.0 Co-Author
Olivia Stemke, MPH, PMP
John Martinez, MPH, CIH
Robert Booth
Robert Booth, MPH, CIH
Lead Instructor and Co-Author of ICRA 2.0
Robert helped write the updated ICRA standard and has taught ICRA for three decades. He teaches it the way he applies it on hospital projects, including the calls it leaves to your judgment.
Questions

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Get ICRA Certified for Healthcare Construction

$375 per seat, four hours, exam at the end. Start as soon as you enroll. Training a crew? Ask for group rates or have us come to you.

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