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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes.
2. Follow safe work practices for direct client care
   • Follow workplace policies and procedures for safe work practices
   • Identify existing and potential hazards in the workplace, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures
   • Identify any client-related risk factors or behaviours of concern, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures
   • Follow workplace policies and procedures to minimise risk
   • Identify and report incidents and injuries to designated persons according to workplace procedures
3. Follow safe work practices for manual handling
   • Follow manual handling procedures and work instructions for minimising manual handling risk
   • Identify manual handling hazards and report in line with workplace procedures
   • Apply control measures for minimising manual handling risk
4. Follow safe work practices for infection control
   • Follow standard precautions as part of own work routine to prevent the spread of infection
   • Recognise situations when additional infection control procedures are required
   • Apply additional precautions when standard precautions alone may not be sufficient to prevent transmission of infection
   • Identify risks of infection and report them according to workplace procedures
5. Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
   • Raise WHS issues with designated persons according to organisational procedures
   • Participate in workplace safety meetings, inspections and consultative activities
   • Contribute to the development and implementation of safe workplace policies and procedures in own work area
6. Reflect on own safe work practices
   • Identify ways to maintain currency of safe work practices in regards to workplace systems, equipment and processes in own work role
   • Reflect on own levels of stress and fatigue, and report to designated persons according to workplace procedures
   • Participate in workplace debriefing to address individual needs