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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Provide support to environmental health planning
  2. Provide environmental health advice
  3. Implement environmental health measures
  4. Monitor environmental health measures

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

applying relevant legislation, and organisational policies and procedures and determining the most appropriate method of control for each

assessing a range of common health threats in the field environment

communicating effectively and engaging with a broad range of stakeholders to gain support for environmental health activities

contributing to health operations including:

exposure to common health threats in a field setting

coordinating a range of environmental health measures in a practical field setting

ensuring collection and disposal of field waste

identifying hazards, assessing risks and implementing control measures

identifying health risks and disease transmission

implementing control measures of disease transmission

implementing water quality assurance measures

participating in planning briefs

prioritising tasking

promoting a safe working environment

working effectively with relevant administrative systems.


Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

disease types which must include one or more of the following:

airborne disease such as influenza

contact disease such as impetigo or tinea

food and water-borne disease such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid

vector-borne disease such as malaria or dengue fever

causes of disease transmission

food storage and distribution standards including the hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) approach to food control

health surveillance system

methods of establishing field hygiene and waste facilities

pathophysiology of common communicable diseases

process of disease

relevant legislation, and organisational policies and procedures

relevant planning and control systems

risk management principles

role and capabilities of other health care providers including environmental health team

water quality assurance measures.