SITHIND001 - Use hygienic practice for hospitality service

Unit code: SITHIND001 | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

Footscray Nicholson

Industry

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to use personal hygiene practices to maintain the health and wellbeing of self and others. The unit applies to all hospitality service environments. Individuals at all levels use this skill in the workplace during the course of their daily activities.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
Establish a procedure to:

integrate at least eight personal hygiene practices in day-to-day preparation for work, and;
check at least two of the following for contamination and cleanliness during day-to-day work functions and adjust as required: hands, uniform, clothing, personal protective items.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

personal and professional reasons for maintaining personal hygiene in hospitality service environments;
personal hygiene practices to care for personal health and wellbeing prior to and during service periods;
meaning of: airborne diseases; infectious diseases;
ways of transferring micro-organisms and spreading airborne and infectious diseases and illness to self and others, and;
employee responsibilities in following hygienic practices and maintaining the hygiene of the workplace.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.