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Occupational Health and Safety: Continuing Care

Infectious Disease Prevention Management (IDPM) provides guidance and support to prevent workplace illness/disease amongst staff within Long-term or Home Care.

Purpose

Continuing care aims to control infectious airborne contaminants encountered by staff through accepted engineering and administrative control measures. When effective engineering controls are not feasible or adequate, appropriate respiratory protection is to be used as a mitigation strategy. The respiratory protection program provides elemental components to support your respiratory protection needs from infectious diseases.

Respiratory Protection Libguide

Information on the Respiratory Protection Program can be found at About - Respiratory Protection Program - LibGuides at Nova Scotia Health (nshealth.ca)

Respiratory Protection Policy Template for Continuing Care