Infection Prevention & Control – Is your personal health and fitness a risk to others?

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Have you got an infection?

 •        Take precautions to protect patients and colleagues from infection

 •         Contact Occupational Health

 

Do you have direct patient contact?vaccination

 •        Protect against communicable diseases, ie TB, Hepatitis B and C, HIV, Flu                                                            

 •        Make sure you’re immunised and these are up to date

 

Have you come into contact with an infectious disease?oh

 •        Report it immediately

 •        Contact Occupational Health

 

Don’t feel well?

 •        Don’t attend work if it will affect your health and/or the health of others

 

Diarrhoea? Vomiting?

   •       Stay off work until you’re symptom free for 48 hours