Remote Area Work Guide

This detailed nine page OH&S Guide is designed for employees who are going to remote areas, particularly in foreign countries where they are likely to be exposed to Malaria, HIV, Hepititus, Bilharzia, Tropical Diseases, Sleeping Sickness, Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Travellers Diarrhoea. This well researched policy outlines what measures employees or contractors need to take to reduce exposure. It also highlights steps to take in the event that a worker has contracted an infection. Document has been referenced from:

Handbook of HIV Medicine, Oxford University Press; Douglas Wilson, Sudeshni Naidoo, Linda-Gail Bekker, Mark Cotton, Gary Maartens

A New Short Textbook of Preventative Medicine for the Tropics, Third Edition; A O Lucas and H M Gilles

Hunter’s Tropical Medicine, Seventh Edition; G Thomas Strickland

General Practice, Third Edition; John Murtagh

CDC National Center for HIV, STD, & TB Prevention Fact Sheet on Viral Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E

CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases Schistosomiasis Fact Sheet
Supplied in MSWord format.