2nd Pandemic Influenza and Workplace Infectious Diseases

Brochure

Networking Drinks Sponsor

Satchel Sponsor

8:15

Registration opens

9:15

Summit Welcome and Outcomes
Athol Yates, Australian Homeland Security Research Centre and Conference

Foundation Knowledge

9:30

The key threats, prevalence and costs to organisations
Infections

• Influenza – Pandemic and seasonal
• Gastroenteritis
• Hepatitis

Prevalence       

• Locations
• Frequency
• Impact of climate changes on prevalence

10:20

The key workplace preventions and preparations measures

• Hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette
• Social distancing
• Personal protective equipment
  

Dr Colin Johnston, Chief Medical Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

10:40

New resources for workplace preventions and preparations measures
10:40 -Safe Use of Personal Protective Equipment Resource Package
Beth Bint , Project Officer, Emergency Management Unit, Department of Health, South Australia
10:50 - Leanne Rich, Program Manager - Standards for General Practices, Royal Australian College of General Practice

11:00

Morning break

Resources for workplace preventions and preparations measures (continued)
11:30 - Pandemic Influenza – Business Continuity Training for Non Government Organisations
Carolyn Paterson, Director, Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Branch, FaHCSIA
11:40 - Preparing your business for an influenza pandemic
Theo Antonopoulos, Associate Brand Manager, GlaxoSmithKline
11:55 - Practical issues with respiratory protection: Understanding filtration and face fit
Terry Gorman, Occupational Hygienist, 3M Australia

12:10

Lunch

1:10

1:10 - Planning your testing program
John Lynch, Commercial Manager Products, Wormald
1:20 -Use of the Porta Count Fit Tester on how a particular mask fits a person
Mary Zaljevic, Draeger Safety
1:30 PPE – Pitfalls & Issues, ExitKits Australia/Virogard
Jim Gault, Managing Director, Virogard

1:40

3:00

Afternoon tea

3:30

Afternoon Chair           
Lawrence Cox, Head of Business Continuity Management Strategy, ANZ Bank and the Banking and Finance Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group (BFAG)

3:35

Delivery of findings
Reports by workshop reporters

3:50

Drawing lessons for the future from last year’s outbreaks

Equine influenza

• Media
• Public support of restriction
• The practicality of quarantine
• Compensation
• What does this mean for the future?

Dr Reg Butler, Principal Veterinary Officer, Program Manager Veterinary Public Health, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Drawing on the experiences of equine influenza and the 2007 Seasonal influenza outbreak to predict the financial costs to government and business of pandemic influenza
Jason Thomas, Director, Sinclair Thomas and Roche Australia

5:00

Day 1 Concludes

5:15 - 6:15

Networking drinks

8:15

Registration opens

9:00

Welcome
Dr Keith Horsley, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Morning Chair

Extension Knowledge

9:05

What are the obligations for employers and employees on infectious disease and influenza?

9:05 - Comcare’s view

• How statutory OHS duty of care and other obligations apply to workplace infectious diseases?
• What steps does an employer have to take to comply with the OHS duty of care and other obligations for workplace infectious diseases?
• What are the requirements for the notification of occupationally acquired infectious diseases to the OHS regulator?
  

Michelle Whitehead, Director Prevention & Injury Management , Comcare

9:30 - The union’s view of OHS and infectious diseases in the workplace- Expectations of unions in meeting the reasonably practicable steps legislative requirement
Sue Powell, Industrial Officer with responsibility for OH&S, Community and Public Sector Union

9:55 - Views of a State occupational infectious diseases adviser

• Australian Safety and Compensation Council identification of infectious and parasitic diseases as a national priority disease
• Review of Australian workers compensation data for workplace infectious diseases - What industries are most at risk and what are the most significant occupational infectious diseases?
• Integration of occupational infectious disease with enterprise risk management; i.e. how to apply risk management concepts to occupational infectious disease risks.
  

Patricia Coward, Principal Adviser (Occupational Health), Occupational Health Unit Workplace Health & Safety, Queensland Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

10:20 Questions

10:35

Lessons from Banking and Finance Sector Pandemic Planning / Exercise(s)
Lawrence Cox, Head of Business Continuity Management Strategy, ANZ Bank and the Banking and Finance Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group (BFAG)

11:05

Morning break

11:35

‘Not if but When’ – Pandemic Influenza Planning in South Australia
Why should Pandemic Influenza be part of Emergency Management

• governance arrangements
• all Hazards approach
• health as the control agency for human disease

Overview of preparedness planning in South Australia
Specific planning in relation to:

• general practice
• community flu clinics
• management of deceased persons and mortuaries

Val Smyth, Manager, Emergency Management Services, Public Health and Clinical Coordination, South Australia and Christine Andrews, Senior Project Officer, Pandemic Influenza, Emergency Management Services, Clinical Systems, South Australia

12:45

Lunch

1:35

3:00

Afternoon tea

3:30

Afternoon Chair           
Dr Colin Johnston, Chief Medical Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

3:35

Delivery of findings
Reports by workshop reporters

3:50

H5N1 update: What we know and what we dont!

• Potential for mutation of H5N1
• Pandemic vaccine developments
• WHO learnings on containment of bird flu outbreaks
• Possible changes to WHO alert levels

Dr Ian Barr, Deputy Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Influenza

4:20

Summit Conclusions     
Dr Keith Horsley, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

4:30

Summit Close

9:15

Symposium Outcomes  
Athol Yates, Australian Homeland Security Research Centre and Program Chair

9:30

Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand
Professor Geoffrey W. Rice, Head of School, School of History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

10:10

Influenza and pneumonia mortality in the Australian Army of the First World War (1914-19), and examining the lessons which can be learned for future influenza pandemics
Professor G. Dennis Shanks, Director, Australian Army Malaria Institute

10:50

Morning break

11:15

Influenza Pandemic of 1889 - 1891 in Australia
Dr Keith Horsley, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

11:45

Past and present pandemic situation in New Zealand
Professor Geoffrey W. Rice, Head of School, School of History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

12:15

Discussion

12:30

Symposium Close

12:30

Lunch