Occupational Exposures

[Joe-Anne Bendall]

Good morning everyone
Just curious to find out if any other healthcare facilities have ever experienced an abnormal increase in occupational exposures at any time? What were the common contributing factors and were they linked?

Also, for healthcare facilities that are performing surgery with microscopes or loupes – have you had occupational exposures when staff move sharps outside their field of vision? If you have, what strategies did you put in place to reduce the risk?

Thanks

Joe

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[Michael Wishart]

Hi Kate

Infection control here coordinates staff body fluid exposure management (initial assessment is performed by MO’s in ICU) and staff vaccinations (230 bed acute private facility). No staff health service, just 1.0FTE infection control.

In my opinion, staff who manage occupational exposures should have an understanding of blood borne virus transmission risks and have undertaken some basic training in pre-and-post blood borne viral serology counselling – there was a previous series of emails about this on this forum in March this year if you can check the archives.

Cheers
Michael

Michael Wishart
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Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital
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Dear all,
We are currently looking at our service provision and model of care and specifically what other Infection control departments provide in the way of management of occupational exposures.

Our department covers two campuses and as well as running the infection control programme we are responsible for the management of occupational exposures despite there being a staff health service for the LHD, they do not provide a occupational exposure service to our facility but they do to other facilities in the LHD.

What do people feel should be the basic level of knowledge for staff to provide a service? and do you feel we should have priorty access to other support services?

any information would be greatly appreciated and anyone that wants to share there programme that would be great.

Thankyou
Kate

Kate Reid

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