Download 5.1.4 Infectious Disease Outbreak

COMMISSIONER’S REQUIREMENTS
Infectious Disease Outbreak
Section
CR Number
Section 5. Healthcare Services
5.1.4
Current Issue Date
October 2015
Corrections Act 1986
Legislation & Policy
Corrections Regulations 2009
Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008
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Safety and Security Services – Emergency Management,
Contingency Planning and Fire Safety
List of Infectious Diseases
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PURPOSE
To provide prison General Managers with the requirements on managing and reporting an
outbreak of an infectious disease.
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REQUIREMENT
Processes must be in place to report an outbreak of infectious diseases.
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GUIDING PRINCIPLE
3.1
An infectious disease may spread in a prison more rapidly than in the community. The
containment and response to an infectious disease in a prison, requires an immediate
response.
3.2
The Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008, requires the Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS) to be informed when a person is identified with one of the prescribed
notifiable conditions referred to in the Act.
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CONTEXT
4.1
To ensure the accurate, coordinated and timely provision of information to relevant
stakeholders, the prison’s Health Service Provider (HSP) must inform the prison General
Manager immediately, of a suspected or confirmed case of infectious disease.
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4.2
The prison General Manager must have arrangements in place to ensure that the prison’s
HSP and Justice Health (JH) advise him/her of necessary steps to isolate and contain the
situation.
4.3
The HSP should support local prison staff with infection control measures, including
quarantine and isolation, social distancing, cleaning and disinfection requirements, and
appropriate personal protective equipment.
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INSTRUCTION
5.1
Protocol
5.1.1
The prison General Manager, or delegate, is responsible for the prison’s day-to-day
operations and is to notify the Deputy Commissioner, Operations or Duty Director and
where relevant, the Regional or Deputy Director, of a suspected or confirmed case of
infectious disease.
5.1.2
The prison General Manager, or delegate, must notify staff and other prisons of prisoners
who may have been affected and recently transferred.
5.1.3
On receipt of pathology results, the HSP should inform the prison General Manager and
contact JH immediately.
5.1.4
JH will coordinate communication regarding the infectious disease and its management,
between the prison(s) affected, HSP staff, DHHS and other relevant health bodies.
5.1.5
The incident must be reported as a notifiable incident and in accordance with
Commissioner’s Requirement – Incident Reporting.
Jan Shuard PSM
Commissioner
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Information below this point is administrative supporting detail
only and not subject to Commissioner’s review or approval.
Acronyms
DHHS
Department of Health and Human Services
HSP
Health Service Provider
JH
Justice Health
Definitions
Nil
Associated Commissioner’s Requirements
1.3.1 - Incident Reporting
1.3.3 - Reporting and Review of Prisoner Deaths
Document Detail
Title:
Infectious Disease Outbreak
Owner:
Manager, Operations Directorate
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List of Infectious Diseases
List of the conditions contained in Schedule 4 of the Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2009:
GROUP A – immediate
notification by telephone of an
initial diagnosis, followed by
written notification within 5 days
GROUP B – written notification
within 5 days
GROUP C – written notification
within 5 days
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Cholera
- Chikungunya virus infection
- Diphtheria
- Food-borne and water-borne illness
(two or more related cases)
- Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Legionellosis
- Measles
- Murray Valley encephalitis virus
infection
- Haemophilus influenzae, type B
(meningitis, epiglottitis, other invasive
infections)
- Hepatitis A
- Meningococcal infection (invasive)
- Paratyphoid
- Poliomyelitis
- Plague
- Rabies
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS)
- Smallpox
- Tularaemia
- Typhoid
- Viral haemorrhagic fevers
- Yellow fever
- Barmah Forest virus infection
- Arbovirus infections – other arbovirus
infections
- Blood lead greater than 10mcg/dL
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacter infection
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Dengue virus infection
- Hepatitis B (newly acquired)
- Hepatitis B (unspecified)
- Hepatitis C (newly acquired)
- Hepatitis C (unspecified)
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Hepatitis viral (not further specified)
- Herpes zoster
- Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
- Kunjin virus infection
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyssavirus – Australian Bat lyssavirus
- Lyssavirus – other (specify)
- Malaria
- Mumps
- Mycobacterium ulcerans
- Pneumococcal infection (invasive)
- Psittacosis (ornithosis)
- Pertussis
- Q Fever
- Ross River virus infection
- Rubella
- Congenital Rubella
- Salmonellosis
- Shiga toxin and Verotoxin producing
Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC)
- Shigellosis
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(vCJD)
- Varicella
- Chlamydia trachomatis infection
- Donovanosis
- Gonococcal infection
- Syphilis (less than 2 years duration)
- Syphilis (2 years or more duration or
unspecified)
- Congenital syphilis
Group D written notification
within 5 days
- Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome (AIDS)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
infection
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