Covid-19 – Quality controls to protect our Staff and Consumers

At Future Life Care, ensuring COVID-19 in aged care is our top priority. Our biggest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our consumers and our people who care for them. That’s why we’re committed to supporting you throughout the COVID-19 health crisis.

COVID-19 in Aged Care: Protecting Our Staff and Consumer

We have put strong COVID-19 safety rules in place to stop the virus from spreading among staff and consumers. We look for risks in our services and fix them to stop COVID-19 from spreading.

We’re confident our consumers can continue to safely use our services during these challenging times. Our trained and equipped frontline staff follow all COVID-19 safety rules of doing what’s needed to:

• Prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, within the community,
• Make sure compliance with government health regulations and social distancing directives, and
• Amplify existing infection Stop the virus and control procedures and how they apply to COVID-19.

At an organisational level, we’ve also put processes in place to:

• We quickly identify anyone who may have been exposed to COVID-19 while using our services.
• We inform our team, clients, and health authorities right away., as well as government health authorities, of any COVID-19 related issues, including confirmed cases.
• Support affected employees and consumers who have been confirmed as having COVID-19 as much as possible.

Day-to-day, we continue to offer a range of important hands-on and contactless support services, supported by robust measures to ensure safety, including:

• We pre-screen every consumer before providing services to identify any risks.
• We make sure compliance with government health regulations and social distancing directives.
• Our staff strictly follow these COVID-19 safety rules in aged care.
• Our team at FLC follows advanced COVID-19 safety rules in aged care homes.
• We want to set an example with our aged care COVID-19 rules.

• We train our employees on:

  • How to use PPE properly

  • Hand hygiene

  • Infection prevention rules

• Adhering to government advice on when our employees should wear PPE and rapidly updating our practices if government advice changes.
• Providing clear directives that our employees must not come to work or visit consumers if they are unwell.
• In particular, Employees must not visit if they feel sick. This includes fever, cough, sore throat, or contact with a COVID case
• We follow government health rules. Our team also maintains proper distancing.
• Implementing special leave arrangements to support our people when needed, and
• Producing a range of additional resources to support the health and emotional wellbeing of our employees.

If you have any questions about our safety measures, or an upcoming home care services appointment, please contact us