Infectious Diseases Occupational Exposure Guideline

Version 1.0 approved 27 March 2025

The Infectious Diseases Occupational Exposure Guideline (PDF  525KB) assists SA Health workplaces to appropriately assess and manage risks associated with occupational exposure to prevent infectious disease transmission to our workers.

Applicability

This guideline applies to all workers of SA Health; that is all workers of the Department for Health and Wellbeing, Local Health Networks including state-wide services aligned with those Networks (LHNs) and SA Ambulance Service (SAAS).

For the purposes of this guideline:

  • ‘workers’ refers to employees, contractors or subcontractors, students, and volunteers undertaking work on behalf of the above entities.

Predominately, this guideline applies to all staff directly involved in Clinical Worker Health or Infection Prevention Control (or local equivalent) to assist with the management of workers’ exposures to infectious diseases.

This guideline does not apply to patient-to-patient infectious disease exposures. These incident types should be reported as per patient incident requirements. Refer to Clinical Incident Management Policy for further information.