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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 Standard Attachments Forms 1 Safety and Security Services – Emergency Management, Contingency Planning and Fire Safety List of Infectious Diseases Nil PURPOSE To provide prison General Managers with the requirements on managing and reporting an outbreak of an infectious disease. 2 REQUIREMENT Processes must be in place to report an outbreak of infectious diseases. 3 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. 4 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. 1 of 4 Commissioner’s Requirement – Infectious Disease Outbreak COMMISSIONER’S REQUIREMENTS 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. 5 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 2 of 4 Commissioner’s Requirement – Infectious Disease Outbreak COMMISSIONER’S REQUIREMENTS 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 Version Control Version V1 Date Oct-15 Description First Issue 3 of 4 Commissioner’s Requirement – Infectious Disease Outbreak COMMISSIONER’S REQUIREMENTS 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 4 of 4 Commissioner’s Requirement – Infectious Disease Outbreak