Elements and Performance Criteria
- Contribute to planning preventative maintenance for steam and sterilisers
- Ensure maintenance schedules are met with regard to standards
- Apply practice standards to monitor processes of the sterilisation cycle
- Assess the data from monitoring of processes to ensure sterilisers functioning correctly to achieve validation of the sterilisation cycle
- Manage trouble shooting for steriliser failure (eg. wet loads), using a multidisciplinary approach and including investigation of defects and failures
- Assess data from monitoring processes
- Ensure planned maintenance schedules are met with regard to standards
- Take action where discrepancies are identified to facilitate repair
- Report any issues outside sphere of responsibility and competence to designated authority to achieve validation of the sterilisation cycle
- Liaise with engineering and technical services departments and companies
- Initiate change processes when required
- Maintain records
- Contribute to organisation and operational policies and procedures
- Provide input into organisation policies and procedures to ensure compliance with AS/NZS 4187 and AS 1410
- Monitor and if necessary, adjust work practices to reflect AS/NZS 4187 and organisation policies and procedures
- Maintain currency via literature and manufacturer's information relevant to the effectiveness of sterilisation processes
- Liaise with maintenance personnel/technicians
- Complete validation processes