Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2022
Course Code: OHTH5920C
Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care
Important Information:
This course is delivered and assessed in a cluster with Manage legal and ethical compliance (CHCLEG003).
This course is delivered in the school of Vocational Design and Social Context.
School: 535T Social Care and Health
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4365 - Certificate IV in Disability
Course Contact: Clare McGlone
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7929
Course Contact Email: clare.mcglone@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 25
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This course describes the skills and knowledge required for a worker to participate in safe work practices to ensure their own health and safety, and that of others in work environments that involve caring directly for clients. It has a focus on maintaining safety of the worker, the people being supported and other community members.
This course applies to all workers who require knowledge of workplace health and safety (WHS) to carry out their own work, in both centre-based and home-based service provision.
This course is delivered and assessed with:
CHCLEG003 - Manage legal and ethical compliance
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care |
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Element: |
1. Follow safe work practices for direct client care |
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Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Follow workplace policies and procedures for safe work practices 1.2 Identify existing and potential hazards in the workplace, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures 1.3 Identify any client-related risk factors or behaviours of concern, report them to designated persons, and record them according to workplace procedures 1.4 Follow workplace policies and procedures to minimise risk 1.5 Identify and report incidents and injuries to designated persons according to workplace procedures |
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Element: |
2. Follow safe work practices for manual handling |
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Performance Criteria: |
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Element: |
3. Follow safe work practices for infection control |
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Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Follow standard precautions as part of own work routine to prevent the spread of infection 3.2 Recognise situations when additional infection control procedures are required 3.3 Apply additional precautions when standard precautions alone may not be sufficient to prevent transmission of infection 3.4 Identify risks of infection and report them according to workplace procedures |
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4. Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace |
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Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Raise WHS issues with designated persons according to organisational procedures 4.2 Participate in workplace safety meetings, inspections and consultative activities 4.3 Contribute to the development and implementation of safe workplace policies and procedures in own work area |
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5. Reflect on own safe work practices |
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Performance Criteria: |
5.1 Identify ways to maintain currency of safe work practices in regards to workplace systems, equipment and processes in own work role 5.2 Reflect on own levels of stress and fatigue, and report to designated persons according to workplace procedures 5.3 Participate in workplace debriefing to address individual needs |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the unit you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements. By applying this knowledge and these skills, you will maintan your own safety and that of others in your work environments.
Details of Learning Activities
The program schedule includes:
- Online self-paced learning resources
- Face-to-face classroom-based learning
- Workplace based learning and assessment
Teaching Schedule
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Legal and ethical frameworks include legislation, policy and regulatory requirements and concepts of duty of care, dignity of risk and least restrictive alternatives. Over three workshops we explore this and your roles and responsibilities as support staff. We must meet individual needs of clients within the legal and ethical frameworks of our field in the available time, budgets, staff numbers and capacity. The NDIS is changing the landscape and we need to develop new ways of meeting client choices and preferences. Undertaking our work within the legal and ethical frameworks of our field includes compliance with OHS requirements including manual handling, workplace safety, fire safety, community access and individual support practices. In this cluster we consider safe work practices in the context of legal and ethical frameworks. equipment. |
Workshop flexibility
- The workshop themes link units and ideas, strategies and current beliefs, values and philosophies about disability and community sector work.
- The schedule above is planned to address those themes but we will be seeking to include guest presenters and other options to enrich your learning throughout the program.
- Guest presenters will be scheduled as they are available and this may mean changes to the topics in workshops. Students will be informed as these opportunities are finalized.
- We welcome any suggestions or requests from students that would add to the content or experiences
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
The University Library has extensive resources and provides subject specialist expertise, research advice, help with referencing and support through:
The learning Lab
www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/learning-lab
The Study Support Hub
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/study-support-hub
English for uni workshops
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/study-support/workshops/english-uni-workshops
Overview of Assessment
The assessment tasks are as follows:
Task 1: Knowledge questions of workplace safety and legal and ethical compliance
Task 2: Prepare and respond to case studies
Task 3: Practical demonstration of safe work practices
Task 4: Simulation and reflection and develop and communicate a policy and procedure
Task 5: Third party supervisors report
Assessment Tasks
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ask 1: Knowledge questions of workplace safety and legal and ethical compliance
Task 2: Prepare and respond to case studies
Task 3: Practical demonstration of safe work practices
Task 4: Simulation and reflection and develop and communicate a policy and procedure
Task 5: Third party supervisors report
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant unit of competency
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