A range of inhouse pandemic workplace training courses can be delivered within your organisation. These courses can be customised to suit the size and requirements of your workplace.

These courses are delivered by recognised and experienced facilitators within the pandemic planning sector, including Dr Barry Gilbert of Public Health Management, and Athol Yates of the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre. These courses have been delivered to Commonwealth and State government agencies as well as major corporations and non-government organisations.

1. In-house course options
• In-depth Practical Pandemic Staff Training Course
• Front-line Staff Training Course including counter, reception and security staff
• CEO and Board level briefing
2. Presenters
3. Contact details

Course options

1. In-depth Practical Pandemic Staff Training Course
2. Front-line Staff Training Course including counter, reception and security staff
3. CEO and Board level briefing
   

In-depth Practical Pandemic Staff Training Course

Duration: 7 hours

The day is designed to provide the essential knowledge, theory and practical skills to effectively minimise the spread of pandemic influenza in the workplace. It has the following five key blocks of learning:

1. Underpinning knowledge
2. Organisational preparations
3. Workplace infection prevention theory
4. Personal infection prevention practice
5. Organisation infection prevention practice

Who should attend?

• Pandemic workplace officers
• OHS Advisors
• Supervisors
• Front-line staff
• Business continuity managers planning for a pandemic

Front-line Staff Training Course including counter, reception and security staff

Duration: 5 hours

This course is designed to provide the skills necessary to interact with the public safely. The course covers:

1. Reorganising the public-private interface areas
2. Ways to maintain safe separation distance
3. Personal protective equipment
4. Cleaning routines
5. Queuing management

Who should attend?

• Front-line staff
• Supervisors of front-line staff
• Counter staff
• Retail staff
• Receptionists
• Security staff
• OHS Advisors

CEO and Board Level Briefing

Duration: 1 hour

The briefing is aimed at ensuring senior executives and company board members understand the impact different pandemic scenarios will have on the economy, business, stakeholders, regulators, employees, suppliers and clients.

The briefing will be customised to the organisation and be cognizant of any overseas operations, international suppliers and customers, type of operation (eg retail, transport), and other factors that will determine the impact on the organisation.

The briefing covers:

1. Underpinning knowledge of influenza
2. Knowledge of likely pandemic scenarios overseas and in Australia
3. Probable consequences for the economy, business, stakeholders, regulators, employees, suppliers and clients
4. Duty of care implications of pandemics
5. Measures introduced by similar organisations

Who should attend?

• Senior executives
• Company board members
• CEOs

Presenters

Dr Barry Gilbert is a principal of Public Health Management. He has designed and implemented mass vaccination programs in Australia, together with ‘best-practice’ infection control strategies and programs. In late 2004 Dr Gilbert was responsible for pre-departure health programs for some Victorian emergency service workers attending Tsunami affected regions of SE Asia and the Maldives. He provides education and prevention regarding infectious diseases in the workplace, particularly blood-borne infections, and emerging diseases such as pandemic influenza. This includes assistance in sentinal activity regarding avian flu in Indonesia, particularly North Sulawesi, together with vector-borne disease management and control.

Athol Yates is the Executive Director of the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre, and editor of Pandemic E-News. He is the series editor of two pandemic history books on Australia’s 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.

Contact details

Keanne Stephenson
Business Development Manager
International Affairs House
Level 2, 32 Thesiger Crs, Deakin ACT 2605
Homeland Security Communications Group
Mob: 0412 472 766
keanne.stephenson@homelandsecuritygroup.com.au

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Lessons from the past for today's Pandemic Planners and Officers
Canberra: 13 June 2007
Course aims: This seminar provided a unique indepth understanding of the consequences of the 1918-1919 infelunza pandemic in Australia. The preparation and response measures employed nearly a century ago are the same ones that would be used today. Consequently the lessons of the past are highly relevant today.

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Conference CD - Audio and Powerpoint files
A CD of the presentations has been produced which includes MP3 audio files of all sessions plus the powerpoint files of presentations.

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