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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Maintain personal hygiene.
   • Maintain cleanliness of work clothes according to workplace policies and procedures.
   • Apply hand washing procedures according to infection control practices.
   • Use and maintain personal protective equipment.
2. Clean and sanitise equipment and surfaces.
   • Identify appropriate cleaning and sanitising requirements.
   • Select, prepare and use appropriate cleaning chemicals and equipment.
   • Apply workplace cleaning schedule to maintain cleanliness of equipment and surfaces.
   • Store cleaning chemicals and equipment according to material safety data sheets.
3. Handle materials and deceased persons in a manner that prevents contamination and spread of infectious disease.
   • Apply standard precautions to deceased persons and to materials that have come into contact with deceased persons.
   • Identify and address work health and safety/occupational health and safety issues involved in handling materials and deceased persons.
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment when handling deceased persons or materials that have come into contact with deceased persons.
4. Dispose of infectious or contaminated material.
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment when disposing of infectious or contaminated material.
   • Sort and separate infectious waste.
   • Dispose of infectious waste according to infection control practices.
5. Identify and act on hazards and spillage.
   • Determine potential hazards and take remedial action.
   • Assess actual hazards and spillages and implement appropriate responses.
   • Respond to situations of risk.
   • Place hazard notification notices as required.
6. Maintain personal hygiene.
   • Maintain cleanliness of work clothes according to workplace policies and procedures.
   • Apply hand washing procedures according to infection control practices.
   • Use and maintain personal protective equipment.
7. Clean and sanitise equipment and surfaces.
   • Identify appropriate cleaning and sanitising requirements.
   • Select, prepare and use appropriate cleaning chemicals and equipment.
   • Apply workplace cleaning schedule to maintain cleanliness of equipment and surfaces.
   • Store cleaning chemicals and equipment according to material safety data sheets.
8. Handle materials and deceased persons in a manner that prevents contamination and spread of infectious disease.
   • Apply standard precautions to deceased persons and to materials that have come into contact with deceased persons.
   • Identify and address work health and safety/occupational health and safety issues involved in handling materials and deceased persons.
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment when handling deceased persons or materials that have come into contact with deceased persons.
9. Dispose of infectious or contaminated material.
   • Use appropriate personal protective equipment when disposing of infectious or contaminated material.
   • Sort and separate infectious waste.
   • Dispose of infectious waste according to infection control practices.
10. Identify and act on hazards and spillage.
    • Determine potential hazards and take remedial action.
    • Assess actual hazards and spillages and implement appropriate responses.
    • Respond to situations of risk.
    • Place hazard notification notices as required.

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

access and interpret hygiene, infection and contamination control procedures

Evidence of performance of incorporating inflection and contamination control 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:

importance of following hygiene, infection and contamination control procedures and of the potential implications of disregarding those procedures

infection control practices, including:

checking for infectious and transmittable disease

using personal protective equipment

sterilising apparatus and instruments

providing sterile storage areas for instruments

using disinfectants

safe removal and disposal of soiled and contaminated garments

safe ventilation

avoiding invasive procedures on bodies

immunisation

periodic Xrays

seeking medical advice

recording injury and incidence

reporting injury and incidence

providing first aid kit

performing first aid as necessary

labelling clothing

federal, state or territory, and local government legislation and regulations relating to work health and safety/occupational health and safety, infection control, and handling human remains

use, care and maintenance of personal protective equipment

preparation, use and storage of workplace cleaning chemicals

infectious or contaminated material in handling deceased persons

work health and safety/occupational health and safety issues involved in handling materials and deceased persons, including:

toxic gases

cancer producing agents

blood borne viruses

droplet infections

bacterial infections

sharps

aerosol exposure from lungs of body

radioactivity

environmentally sound disposal methods for all types of waste and in particular for hazardous substances in relation to infection control

identification of potential hazards and remedial action in responding or reporting hazard risks.

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