Note: Some fieldwork host organisations do not accept police checks obtained through Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) accredited bodies using the National Police Checking Service. While you can request a police check from an ACIC accredited organisation, a police-issued NPC (referred to above) is on secure paper and includes eligible spent convictions. You are therefore strongly advised to obtain an NPC from a police agency in the first instance to reduce the cost of potentially having to reapply for a NPC to meet host organisation requirements.

WA Health requires a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check before attending fieldwork at any of their sites. The Criminal Record Screening (CRS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) document provides further information on applying for and obtaining a WA Health criminal record screening. Curtin has been advised by WA Health that when applying for a Nationally Coordinated Criminal Record Check they will accept a valid National Police Clearance provided it has been issued within the past 12 months.

Department of Education

The Department of Education requires a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check for students undertaking fieldwork in an educational facility in Western Australia. To ensure compliance with the Department’s strict criminal screening criteria, police clearances or criminal record checks obtained through any other agency or organisation will not be accepted by the Department of Education. Curtin has been advised that student applications will be processed at the same cost as volunteer applications.

Further information is available from Curtin’s Conscientious Objection Policy and Procedures

• Hepatitis B
• Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German Measles)
• Varicella (Chicken Pox)
• Diphtheria, Polio, Tetanus and Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• Influenza
• Tuberculosis

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) clearance is also required if you have been a patient, student or have worked in any hospital or residential care facility outside Western Australia in the 12 months before beginning a placement. Exposure to the infection may also occur in other types of facilities such as
schools or child care facilities in other countries.

As well as offering protection to patients and clients, these requirements support our commitment to take all reasonable steps for the protection of students from dangerous communicable diseases during the period of their enrolment at Curtin.

If you are a carrier of a communicable disease such as Hepatitis B or C, HIV or Tuberculosis and your desired course includes clinical placements you are strongly advised to seek advice from the relevant course coordinator before applying for the course.

• possessing a driver’s licence
• attaining aquatic proficiency
• use of a radiation monitoring device
• use of protective clothing and footwear.

You will be responsible for all costs associated with any other essential requirements for a course.

Details on the other essential requirements will be provided by your school before commencing fieldwork.

You will be responsible for all costs associated with completing and maintaining manual handling competency.

Note: The Faculty of Health Sciences does not accept certificates for manual handling obtained through online courses.

You may be required to present your certificate of completion to the supervisor or relevant staff member on commencement of any fieldwork.

There are no costs associated with the completion of the hand hygiene online learning modules.

You will be responsible for all costs associated with completing and maintaining first aid currency.

Note: First aid courses must meet Australian standards and the Faculty of Health Sciences does not accept first aid certificates obtained through fully online courses.