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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Apply workplace safety, security and emergency procedures.
   • Identify and apply relevant workplace policies and procedures.
   • Recognise and report workplace hazards and unsafe situations to appropriate personnel.
   • Locate and use emergency equipment.
2. Perform safe manual handling.
   • Identify and assess manual handling requirements.
   • Select and plan lifting technique according to manual handling requirements.
   • Prepare and clear work area of obstacles and hazards as required.
   • Apply correct lifting, carrying and placement techniques according to manual handling requirements.
   • Apply safety precautions when using mechanical aids.
   • Coordinate multiple person manual handling tasks as required.
3. Implement strategies to prevent infection in the workplace.
   • Apply personal hygiene practices and standard precautions.
   • Select, use and maintain personal protective equipment.
   • Handle and dispose of potentially infectious waste.
4. Handle and store hazardous substances safely.
   • Recognise hazardous substances from available workplace information.
   • Identify and apply storage requirements for hazardous substances according to relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
   • Comply with signage for hazardous substances.
   • Identify problems with signage and take corrective action when required.
   • Check and use personal protective equipment when handling hazardous chemicals according to workplace policies and procedures.
   • Use, handle and dispose of hazardous substances according to manufacturer guidelines, relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
   • Identify and comply with accident reporting procedures.
   • Check and use trolleys and take corrective action where required.
   • Examine and use emergency equipment and take corrective action where required.
5. Use strategies to prevent work overload.
   • Observe nominated rest times and breaks.
   • Identify workload and raise potential issues with appropriate staff.
   • Clarify and observe work roles.
   • Ensure debriefing opportunities as required.
6. Carry out general housekeeping.
   • Monitor cleanliness, safety and tidiness of workplace and remove general waste as required.
   • Use, maintain and store housekeeping equipment and supplies according to workplace policies and procedures and manufacturer guidelines.
   • Tag damaged items and notify appropriate personnel of maintenance requirements.
   • Report housekeeping issues to appropriate personnel according to workplace policies and procedures.
7. Comply with documentation and reporting requirements.
   • Complete work health and safety incident and accident reports according to relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
   • Report ongoing workplace hazards to appropriate personnel according to and relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
8. Apply workplace safety, security and emergency procedures.
   • Identify and apply relevant workplace policies and procedures.
   • Recognise and report workplace hazards and unsafe situations to appropriate personnel.
   • Locate and use emergency equipment.
9. Perform safe manual handling.
   • Identify and assess manual handling requirements.
   • Select and plan lifting technique according to manual handling requirements.
   • Prepare and clear work area of obstacles and hazards as required.
   • Apply correct lifting, carrying and placement techniques according to manual handling requirements.
   • Apply safety precautions when using mechanical aids.
   • Coordinate multiple person manual handling tasks as required.
10. Implement strategies to prevent infection in the workplace.
    • Apply personal hygiene practices and standard precautions.
    • Select, use and maintain personal protective equipment.
    • Handle and dispose of potentially infectious waste.
11. Handle and store hazardous substances safely.
    • Recognise hazardous substances from available workplace information.
    • Identify and apply storage requirements for hazardous substances according to relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
    • Comply with signage for hazardous substances.
    • Identify problems with signage and take corrective action when required.
    • Check and use personal protective equipment when handling hazardous chemicals according to workplace policies and procedures.
    • Use, handle and dispose of hazardous substances according to manufacturer guidelines, relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
    • Identify and comply with accident reporting procedures.
    • Check and use trolleys and take corrective action where required.
    • Examine and use emergency equipment and take corrective action where required.
12. Use strategies to prevent work overload.
    • Observe nominated rest times and breaks.
    • Identify workload and raise potential issues with appropriate staff.
    • Clarify and observe work roles.
    • Ensure debriefing opportunities as required.
13. Carry out general housekeeping.
    • Monitor cleanliness, safety and tidiness of workplace and remove general waste as required.
    • Use, maintain and store housekeeping equipment and supplies according to workplace policies and procedures and manufacturer guidelines.
    • Tag damaged items and notify appropriate personnel of maintenance requirements.
    • Report housekeeping issues to appropriate personnel according to workplace policies and procedures.
14. Comply with documentation and reporting requirements.
    • Complete work health and safety incident and accident reports according to relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.
    • Report ongoing workplace hazards to appropriate personnel according to and relevant legislation and workplace policies and procedures.

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

follow predetermined health, safety and infection control procedures

handle hazardous substances for a given mortuary operation and in line with regulatory requirements.

Evidence of performance of incorporating mortuary work health and safety procedures in workplace activities on five or more occasions is required to demonstrate consistency of performance and ability to respond to different situations.

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Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge of:

federal, state or territory, and local government legislation and regulations relating to work health and safety/occupational health and safety and infection control for a mortuary environment

purpose of the legal requirement to work according to health, safety and security procedures and inflection control in a mortuary environment, and the implications for not following those procedures

employer’s and employee’s responsibilities under work health and safety/occupational health and safety legislation

workplace policies and procedures in relation to work health and safety/occupational health and safety and inflection control for a mortuary environment

mortuary workplace hazards, including:

manual handling

toxic substances

industrial gases

body fluids and human tissue

infections

fire

infectious waste

sharps

chemical spills

dust and vapours

noise, light and energy sources

electrical equipment

vehicles

personal lifestyle

workplace stress

people

reporting hazards procedures and responsible personnel

use and purpose of emergency equipment

manual handling procedures

personal hygiene practices, including:

maintenance of cleanliness of work clothes

hand washing

food hygiene practices

use of personal protective equipment

standard precautions, including:

use of personal protective equipment

presumption that all blood and body fluids are infectious

covering exposed cuts and abrasions, particularly on workers’ hands, with waterproof coverings prior to commencing work

immediate treatment of puncture wounds or abrasions

use of protective clothing when cleaning spillage of body fluids

infectious and contaminated waste in a mortuary, including:

body parts

human tissue

human blood and body fluid

materials and equipment containing human blood and body fluid

contaminated garments

soiled dressings, sharps, swabs, catheters and bandages

properties of hazardous substances

environmentally sound disposal methods for all types of waste and in particular for hazardous substances disposal techniques in a mortuary

equipment and materials used to carry out housekeeping.

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