Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- 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
- Follow safe work practices for manual handling
- 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
- Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace
- 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