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Audit Findings: Institution A Audit Requirement Meets Basic Standards Meets High-Risk Standards Hazard identification Meets all requirements Regular induction and staff training Meets all requirements Chemical hazard information communicated to staff Meets all requirements “Public safety” policies for visitors Meets all requirements Risk control: Carries out risk assessment Meets all requirements Minimises risk by engineering controls Ventilation controls: Mortuary at negative pressure Meets all requirements Achieves 12 air changes/hour Meets all requirements Ventilation does not recirculate Meets all requirements Guarding and extraction on saws to control aerosolisation No guarding or extraction Meets all requirements Manual handling issues Meets all requirements Minimises risk by use of personal protection: Impermeable clothes Meets all requirements Adequate footwear Meets all requirements Face splash guards routinely used Meets all requirements Double-gloved Meets all requirements Adequate respiratory protection Meets all requirements Appropriate isolated clean facilities Meets all requirements Minimises risk by means of appropriate immunisations for staff: BCG/Baseline Mantoux Meets all requirements Hepatitis B Virus Antibodies (HBV Abs) Meets all requirements Monitoring of control measures: Environmental monitoring Not performed Personal monitoring (Tb Mantoux status, HBV Abs etc.) Meets all requirements Safe disposal of high-risk wastes Meets all requirements Facility suitable for use (auditor’s summation) Meets all requirements Work practices suitable (auditor’s summation) Meets all requirements 12 Health and Safety Issues in New Zealand Mortuaries
Comments on Institution A • Meets the requirements for basic facilities. • With the addition of bone saw guarding and band saw guarding, this institution would be suitably equipped to carry out high-risk procedures. This can be achieved by fitting the saws with a small capture hood and providing suitable suction by means of an industrial-quality vacuum cleaner fitted with a HEPA filter. Similar units are used in orthopaedic plaster rooms. Health and Safety Issues in New Zealand Mortuaries 13
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Executive Summary.........
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements This project arose
Page 7 and 8: Relevance of the Health and Safety
Page 9 and 10: Standards Applied Facility and Proc
Page 11: Methods A list of mortuaries in its
Page 15 and 16: Comments on Institution B • Does
Page 17 and 18: Comments on Institution C • This
Page 19 and 20: Comments on Institution D • This
Page 21 and 22: Comments on Institution E • This
Page 23 and 24: Comments on Institution F • This
Page 25 and 26: Comments on Institution G • This
Page 27 and 28: Comments on Institution H • This
Page 29 and 30: Comments on Institution I • This
Page 31 and 32: Comments on Institution J • This
Page 33 and 34: Comments on Institution K • This
Page 35 and 36: Comments on Institution L • This
Page 37 and 38: Comments on Institution M • This
Page 39 and 40: Comments on Institution N • This
Page 41 and 42: Comments on Institution O • This
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Page 45 and 46: 6. That “risk assessment” occur
Page 47 and 48: References 1. Lunn J, Mayho V. Inci
Page 49 and 50: Minimum Standards Observed Measures
Page 51: Appendix 2: Generic Recommendations

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