Working in certain occupations can increase your exposure and risk of contracting a vaccine preventable disease.

 

Many vaccine preventable diseases are serious with the ability to cause lifelong complications. For example, hepatitis B can cause chronic infection that leads to ongoing complications whereas rubella can infect an unborn baby in the case a pregnant employee is infected. Infections such as these are highly contagious and have the ability to transmit between employees, their family, and the wider community.

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Through the implementation of an occupational immunisation program, employers can reduce this risk to ensure employees are appropriately protected.

 

Occupational vaccination is recommended for employees who:

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• Are exposed to sewage, human tissue, body fluids or blood

• Work in the healthcare industry, with animals or animal products, with children or in a laboratory

• Are carers or emergency and essential service personnel

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Recommended Vaccines:

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• Q Fever

• Hepatitis  A

• Hepatitis  B

• Measles, Mumps and Rubella - MMR

• Tetanus, Diptheria, Pertussis (Whooping cough) - DTPa

• Chicken Pox - Varicella

• Japanese Encephalitis

• Whooping Cough  Pertussis Booster

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We are also available to visit your place of business to reduce down time for employees needing to be vaccinated.