PART ONE
Explain federal, state or territory, and local standards, regulations and guidelines that apply to beauty treatments and name and briefly explain the two pieces of legislation that apply to skin penetration procedures:
- Aim of Work Health & Safety and its Act
- Aim of Anti-discrimination, including equal opportunity, racial vilification, disability discrimination
- Aim of the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act)
- Aim of Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003
- Two pieces of legislation and that business that operate a commercial skin penetration salon must comply with
- Types of business that need licence to operate skin penetration procedures and types of business that do not need a licence and what council guidelines do they need to comply with
PART 2
Locate and review organisational infection control policy and procedures for compliance and state whether the procedures are included in the Academy’s Policy, and where are they located:
This review must be done in conjunction with Infection Control Guidelines for Personal Appearance Services 2012 that can be located on the following link: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ph/documents/cdb/infectcontrolguide.pdf and/or other resources that you are required to identify for this part of the research.
The procedures you need to review are listed below:
- Hand washing procedure: included in policies and procedures and is correct
- Cleaning, disinfecting, sterilisation procedures: included in policies and procedures and are correct
- Needle stick injury and disposal of sharps procedures: included in policies and procedures and are correct
PART 3
Explain the aim of Australian standards AS/NZS4815 and 4187 relating to infection control in office based health care facilities:
- AS/NZS4815
- AS/NZS4187
PART 4
Explain standard and additional precautions as defined by the National Health and Medical Research Council:
- When should the standard precautions be used
- List what do the standard precautions consist of
- What are additional precautions
- List what do the standard precautions consist of
PART 5
Explain Industry Code of Practice for Skin Penetration Procedures:
- Reason behind the development of Industry Code of Practice for Skin Penetration Procedures
- To whom the Industry Code of Practice for Skin Penetration Procedures applies
PART 6
Explain aetiology of infection, sources of infection and means of transmission:
- Describe: bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, parasites, mites
- Ways of germs transmission and how do germs spread
PART 7
Explain risk management for infection control:
- Aim of risk management in relation to infection control
- Steps provided by Australian/New Zealand Standard on Risk Management AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009
PART 8
List the steps of procedure for needle stick or sharps injury procedures for notification and response:
- Steps of procedure
PART 9
Explain the impact of premises layout and workflow on infection control risk:
- Considerations for a medical office layout (Please use the following link: http://work.chron.com/considerations-medical-office-layout-26465.html)
- Correct workflow of cleaning area on infection control risks (you can use a simple diagram to explain the direction of workflow in the cleaning area)