Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2023

Course Code: OHTH5943C

Course Title: Follow safe work practices for direct client care

School: 535T Social Care and Health

Campus: Bundoora Campus

Program: C4428 - Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance

Course Contact: Jade Cusworth

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 8382

Course Contact Email: jade.cusworth@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

Nil

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.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct client care

Element:

1. Follow safe work practices for direct client care

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

Element:

2. Follow safe work practices for manual handling

Performance Criteria:

2.1       Follow manual handling procedures and work instructions for minimising manual handling risk

2.2       Identify manual handling hazards and report in line with workplace procedures

2.3  Apply control measures for minimising manual     handling risk

Element:

3. Follow safe work practices for infection control

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

Element:

4. Contribute to safe work practices in the workplace

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

Element:

5. Reflect on own safe work practices

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



Details of Learning Activities

Classes will be face to face in a classroom environment, you will participate in practical sessions as well as role plays and teacher led discussions.


Teaching Schedule

 WeekDateTopicAssessment / Learning activities
Week 4 Session 1 Topic 1-Follow safe work practices 

 
Week 5 Session 2 Topic 2- Follow Safe work practices Manual Handling and Infection Control  
Week 6 Session 3 Topic 3 - Contribute to safe work practices / Safety Symbols and Home-based environment Assessment Task 1 Due
Week 7 Session 4 Topic 4- Reflect on own safe work practices  
Week 8 Session 5 AT2: Risk Assessment  / Revision Assessment Task 2 and 3 Due


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

Assessment methods may include any of the following:

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


Assessment Tasks

Assessment task 1 - Product assessment

Assessment Task 2 - Practical assessment 

Assessment task 3 - Online knowledge quiz


You will be provided with an assessment overview for the course and a descriptor for each assessment task in Canvas.
Feedback is provided on each assessment.


Assessment Matrix

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