Unit of competency

Modification History

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide information and support to community and householders on environmental health issues or hazards that may be of concern.

This unit applies to work in a public health context and workers at this level will work under supervision and within defined guidelines.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements and Performance Criteria

Foundation Skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit Mapping Information

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=ced1390f-48d9-4ab0-bd50-b015e5485705

Assessment requirements

Modification History

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

• identify and provide information and support to at least two householders about environmental health issues.

Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

• policies and procedures for providing culturally appropriate information
• alternative ways of providing information when cultural relationships prevent interaction
• germ theory and disease transmission
• environmental health hazards and risks including:

• spraying chemicals and the effects of overuse

• strategies for disease prevention
• scope of own role and responsibilities
• methods for determining information needs, including identifying how much community members and householders already know and what information still needs to be provided to assist them in making informed choices or decisions
• procedures for reporting difficulties or obstacles to disease prevention.
• factors that impact on environmental health including:

• non-durable health hardware already installed in houses that constantly break
• houses that have been poorly constructed or designed, and as a result are contributing to a range of health problems
• large numbers of family visiting the household at any one time
• lack of ongoing repairs and maintenance to health hardware
• issues in relation to ‘shame’, including community members and householders not being able to afford to buy health hardware items, or inability to read labels and direction of use
• cultural issues, including sleeping with dogs because they are a very important part of a person's culture and life
• not having access to refrigerators and freezers to store food
• not having access to washing machines to wash clothes
• animal management
• pest management.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment that reflects workplace conditions.

Where simulation is used, it must reflect real working conditions by modelling industry operating conditions and contingencies.

Assessment must ensure access to:

• suitable facilities, equipment and resources.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=ced1390f-48d9-4ab0-bd50-b015e5485705