Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4428 Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance

Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Portfolio: Vocational Education

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.

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OHTH5910C

City Campus

TAFE

535T Social Care and Health

Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace

 Term1 2024

OHTH5943C

Bundoora Campus

TAFE

535T Social Care and Health

Face-to-Face or Internet

 Term2 2023

Course Contact: Tino D'Angelo

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4380

Course Contact Email: tino.dangelo@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit 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 unit 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.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Nil



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Elements:

1. Follow safe work practices for direct client care

2. Follow safe work practices for manual handling

3. Follow safe work practices for infection control

4. Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace

5. Reflect on own safe work practices

Learning Outcomes


Overview of Assessment

Assessment methods may include any of the following:

  • role plays
  • case studies
  • group work
  • presentations
  • knowledge quizzes
  • practical assessments
  • reports