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The Australian Immunisation Handbook 10th Edition 2013

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Table 3.3.7: Recommended vaccinations for persons at increased risk of certain<br />

occupationally acquired vaccine-preventable diseases* †<br />

Occupation Vaccine<br />

Healthcare workers (HCW)<br />

All HCW<br />

Includes all workers and students directly involved in<br />

patient care or the handling of human tissues<br />

HCW who work in remote Indigenous communities<br />

or with Indigenous children in NT, Qld, SA and<br />

WA, and other specified healthcare workers in some<br />

jurisdictions<br />

HCW who may be at high risk of exposure to drugresistant<br />

cases of tuberculosis (dependent on state or<br />

territory guidelines)<br />

Persons who work with children<br />

All persons working with children, including:<br />

• staff and students working in early childhood<br />

education and care<br />

• correctional staff working where infants/<br />

children cohabitate with mothers<br />

• school teachers (including student teachers)<br />

• outside school hours carers<br />

• child counselling services workers<br />

• youth services workers<br />

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Hepatitis B<br />

Influenza<br />

MMR (if non-immune) ‡<br />

Pertussis (dTpa)<br />

Varicella (if non-immune)<br />

Vaccines listed for ‘All<br />

HCW’, plus hepatitis A<br />

Vaccines listed for ‘All<br />

HCW’, plus consider BCG<br />

Influenza<br />

MMR (if non-immune) ‡<br />

Pertussis (dTpa)<br />

Varicella (if non-immune)<br />

Staff working in early childhood education and care Vaccines listed for ‘Persons<br />

who work with children’,<br />

plus hepatitis A<br />

Carers<br />

Carers of persons with developmental disabilities § Hepatitis A<br />

Hepatitis B<br />

Influenza<br />

Staff of nursing homes and long-term care facilities for<br />

persons of any age §<br />

Influenza<br />

MMR (if non-immune) ‡<br />

Varicella (if non-immune)

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