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Welcome to Spring, what a start we have had, with the State Conference held in Toowoomba in August, the flower capital. I came away with a spring in my walk, feeling motivated by the speakers and topics presented, to take back to work. I will say no more on the conference as Elinor Radke will be writing a conference report for the news letter. Exciting times ahead with AS/NZ4187 soon to be published. Change is always a challenge. There will be change to our practice to implement and comply with the New Standards and one way we can all achieve it, is to share our knowledge. So when or if you have already implement a new process to comply, why don’t you share it. You could write something for the newsletter or present it at a workshop or conference. We are all learning together. Professional Organization FSRACA. The Committee meet face to face once a year, which was in February in Brisbane this year. David McNamara is the Treasurer and Elinor Radke the Conference Convener.

The flyer is already out for the 2016 National Conference, to be held at the Brisbane Convention Centre. It may well turn out to be a World Conference if we win the vote for Australia to host the world conference. David McNamara, Elinor Radke and Robyn Williams have put in a huge amount of time and energy in for the bid. We should know soon, in the event we win, what an opportunity to show case our CSD’s in Australia.

SRACA Qld Committee We welcome Maria Ng to the Committee Thank you to the retiring committee members, Petra Houston and Narelle Parfitt

SRACA QLD NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 2014

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The Committee President Jane Butler President Elect Elinor Radke Past President Grace Lund Treasurer Carlos Vergara Membership Secretary Robyn Hollis Newsletter / Web Jill Cumberland Committee Members Ranui Matiaha, David McNamara, Sally Ng , Wendy Paech, Simon Vander Kruik Robyn Williams Education 4 Workshops and a State Conference planned for 2014-2015 Workshops 8th November 2014 Sunshine University Private Hospital 7th February 2015 Gold Coast 16 th May 2015 Brisbane 14th November 2015 Ipswich State Conference Townsville 20th 21st 22nd August 2015 If you have any topics to be presented, please email and let us know, SRACA QLD looks forward to seeing you all at SRACA function’s, so that we can continue to build on our learning and networking. Jane Butler - President

Here are some of our wonderful speakers at our Toowoomba Conference. Thank you all for your time to join us at our conference to expand our knowledge about our changing industry. Your efforts are very much appreciated.!!

Below some of our 2014/15 committee who attended the Toowoomba Conference, please know even though some committee members did not attend they still contributed to the massive organisation to present this conference.

RNECE’


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‘CLASSIC CONFERNECE’ CONTINUALLY LEARNING ALL STERILISING STANDARDS AND INFECTION CONTRL

PICNIC POINT - TOOWOOMBA

156 delegates attended the annual SRACA State Conference this year in Toowoomba in late August. Delegates from far and wide participated. From PNG, Thursday Island and Cairns in the north, going south to NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. There was a good representation from the Dental field. We were also delighted that interstate colleagues from respective SRACA’s Inc. Committees from NSW and Victoria attended. 30 Trade Partners also supported the conference.

One of the Key Learning Outcomes:

‘To provide stimulating, motivational and diverse speakers that relate to the above disciplines. This will enhance delegate knowledge to explore and investigate to develop strategies for their working environments’

THURSDAY afternoon commenced with the Validation Interactive Workshop on ‘validation’ for washer disinfectors, packaging and sterilising and quality tools. Following, Classic Conference cocktails were served in the Trade Area. There was an outstanding response from registered delegates attending to receive the ‘2015 -2016 membership’ FREE!

FRIDAY sessions covered a variety of topics to broadly mention: Shelf life, National Standards, Keeping Bugs out! CJD, Audits, Loan transport cases and Manual cleaning and biofilms.

To follow for the conference dinner and entertainment, ‘FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE’ came to town! This truly was such a fun evening with most delegates dressing as their favourite Movie / TV actor or actress. It was a pleasure to observe how delegates really enjoyed themselves and to catch up with friends. Basil, Sybil and Manuel entertained to their true style. Dinner was booked out!

Everyone came back the next morning for the SATURDAY sessions, another day of various topics. These included, for example, dental care, sterilising changes for the last 10 years, new and refurbished facilities, draft AS/NZS 4187, assessing personality types, water quality and orthopaedic instrumentation. Included within the conference programme, benefits for being a SRACA Qld Inc. member:

AWARDS & RECOGNITION • Membership Prize: Celia Fletcher • Sr Mary Andre Short Papers: Yvonne Albertyn, Mackay. • Poster Competition: Pauline Dennis, Logan. • Early Bird Registration: Jacqueline Cartwright, Chermside.


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• SRACA Qld Inc. Recognition Plaque: Elaine Forster, Life Member.

Many thanks to delegates for the feedback and suggestions for future Workshops and Conferences. Congratulations to Narelle Parfitt, Petra Houston, Andrew Bailey and

the SRACA Committee for an outstanding conference for the location, the food, and the quality of the presentations from local, interstate and overseas presenters. A very big ‘thankyou’ to our Trade Partners who come and support the industry every year to make such a successful conference for the field of sterilising technology.

Regards, Elinor V. Radke, President-Elect.

We would like to thank our wonderful drivers !!!!

L/R - Malcolm, Simon, Malcolm Andrew & Narelle

Where would we be without our MC

ANDREW THANKS !!!!


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GGrraaccee LLuunndd.. PPrreessiiddeenntt SSRRAACCAA QQlldd.. SRACA QLD NEWSLETTER - OCTOBER 2014

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Our Logie Winners- Can you Guess who they are ??

John Travolta

Princess Fiona - SHREK

Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble

Austin Powers, Dr Evil & Vanessa

Other Contestants

Kimguard- One step 3 Musketeers & d'artagnan

I Dream of Jeannie

The Flying Nun

Fairies & Pinky & the Tuscadero's

Lady Gaga


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Your EVALUATION - SRACA QLD "Classic Conference" 2014 Picnic Point Toowoomba

Number of Attendees 156 Number of Evaluations returned 55

Not

applicable Poor Needs work Average Good Excellent The conference met my expectations 5 1 15 34 Overall satisfaction-format to relevance of course content 5 1 17 32 Location of conference 2 1 1 12 39 Venue/facilities 2 3 17 33 Visual Aids 2 1 2 24 26 Car Parking 7 2 22 24 Catering 2 4 16 33 Trade exhibits 2 19 34

PRESENTATION Not applicable Poor

Needs work Average Good Excellent

Validation: Monitoring the performance of your automated washer disinfector by Andy Gay

11 3 25 16

Validation of packaging & steriliser by Jane Butler

12 3 7 26 7

Quality tools for CSSD production by Ben Donnelly 12 1 25 17

PRESENTATION

Not applicable Poor

Needs work Average Good Excellent

Opening of 2014 'Classic Conference' Cr Sue Englart 8 3 24 20

Life on the shelf, a long termstudy on Pack Tolerance in Sterile Storage by Tim Cole. 2 1 26 26

National Standard 3 for Accreditation by Sue Greig 3 28 34

Keep the Bugs Out! by Wava Truscott 1 1 14 39

Understanding CJD- Suzanne Solvyns 1 25 29 CSSD Sterilisation Audit by Michael Wishardt 2 2 27 24

A Company's Perspective - New Road Cases by Ian Wood 3 2 10 30 10

Positives & Negatives of Loan Transport Cases in the Workplace by Carlos Vergara 12 9 26 Standards for the design and handling of surgical loan kits by Anne Hardy

9 4 31 11

Decontamination & Cleaning process concerns re manual washing & Biofilms by Annie Watt 2 2 23 28


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PRESENTATION N/A Poor Needs work Average Good Excellent

Dental care for compromised children by Dr Daniel Ford 6 7 42

Sterilising changes over the last 10 years by Elaine Forster 4 5 26 20

Facility Upgrade - Where does Theatre & CSSD go by Karen McLellan 4 5 18 28

Understanding the new 4187 draft by Terry McAuley 3 1 28 23

Gold Coast Hospital CSSD Performance Qualification by Simon VanderKruik

2 2 11 40

A new CSSD - Lessons Learnt by Sue Fuller 3 1 16 35

Assessing Personality Types by Simone Fitzsimmones 5 2 12 22 14

Working better with different personalities Simone Fitzsimon 7 1 13 19 15

RO Water - new Standards bring new concerns & challenges by Surani Sappideen

8 7 24 16

Meeting ISO & UK Standards for Water Quality by Craig Smith 8 1 22 24

Attune - Intuition Research & Instrumentation by Alison Stokes 16 2 20 17

How did you hear about this conference? News letter Website

Work Colleague Other

21 14 17 2

What attracted you most to this conference: Always informative, educational and fun. See and look at new equipment and people from other CSSD units. Keeping updated with processes and products Told to attend. The Program / speakers and topics Furthering knowledge/ always very well organized. Am new to the area and want to increase my knowledge Knowledge of new standards and their implications. Excellent Program, opportunity to liaise with other like staff. Gaining more education / learning / networking. The presentations by certain speakers that suites my work place in Port

Moresby. Professional development and networking.

Comments and general suggestions: More handouts from talks. Organization to be highly commended

What is the benefits of RO if water softeners are functional and maintained.

To many people in small area - too crampy - venue with hotel facilities please, - raffle off flowers at end.

Topics - Across disciplines, AS/NZ4187,Management and Leadership/ Novice and Experienced Speakers / Research.

Excellent conference, great selection of topics, and speakers, would suggest that a bell be rung in trade area to let people know that the next session is about to begin.

Excellent program , very informative. Thank you to drivers on Friday Night - great idea.

Sound was problem, not very loud/ need to remind people in the room to have respect for the speakers by not talking and not playing on phones. Very distracting.

Well done girls - great conference a credit to you all. More surgeons as speakers / Dr's talks are always interesting. More time to visit the trade. Speakers talked for too long : fell behind in time.


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LATEST NEWS!!!

The Australian College of Nursing [ACN] – Endorsed Course has accepted the SRACA Qld Inc. State Conference, Toowoomba, 28 – 30 August, 2014.

BENEFITS for educational activities endorsed by the ACN:

• SRACA Qld Inc. to use the ACN Endorsed Course Logo, • ACN acknowledges the quality of our Conference, • And demonstrates our commitment to the continuing professional development [CPD] of nurses.

To this end: The SRACA Qld Inc. State ‘CLASSIC’ Conference is endorsed:

‘This Conference is endorsed by ACN according to our Continuing Professional Development Endorsed Course Standards. It has been allocated the following CPD hours according to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Continuing Professional Development Standard’

28 August: 2 CPD hours



Elinor V. Radke

President-Elect, SRACA Qld Inc.

Comments and general suggestions: It was annoying that the "Toowoomba Table" talked and giggled and kept their phones on for both days, It was very distracting to have to sit next to them, not to mention rude to the speakers.

It was a long, boring wait for start of dinner. Might have been better to have mingling through the trade exhibits and drink availabilities instead of standing for 1 and 1/2 hours. The minibuses were a great idea.

Locations for future conferences - Tweed / Coolangatta border for Gold Coast.

Thanks for all your hard work, committee / condense into 2 days.

Thank you for a great conference. Managing an epidemic/outbreak in hospital and community. Water testing and standards are a bit heavy going, better in the morning.

We need to keep to time. / How to remind delegates to return to Conference Room.

The two CSSD presentations should have not run one after the other.

New Technology/ The Importance of Decision Makers.

Legal Discussions - where CSSD stands. Always very well organised. Time listed for topics


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Faulty Towers Dinner


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AND MORE........


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BBaarrrryy GGeeoorrggee CCooxx First of all I want to say what a privilege it is to speak at the celebration of the life of Barry Cox. I have worked with Barry for close on 30 years. During this time Barry and I got to know each other quite well. Barry is from an era when things like honesty, loyalty, respect and courtesy are values that were mandatory requirements back then. It is these values that have keep him in good stead, and he has carried these values through all of his life. He has a toughness and resourcefulness that is rare these days. In his role as a service technician at Getinge he not only had the respect of his peers and work colleagues but also the respect of his many customers. In his job, Barry travelled throughout Queensland, Northern NSW, PNG and the Southern Pacific, leaving a trail of satisfied and happy customers behind him. We at Getinge, had many service requests from customers saying. “Can you please send Barry?” If there was a difficult service problem, Coxey was the go-to man. He was the, "Mr Fix-it". While Barry is from a previous era, compared to some of this younger colleagues, he always stayed on top of his game. Making sure he is up to speed with his knowledge and keeping pace with modern technologies. He is the complete professional in his chosen craft.

But it isn’t all about work for Barry. We would engage in many long conversations about family – how are my kids going – what was happening with his grandkids, great grandkids etc. We would talk about his love of travel, my love of Rugby and Golf, and of course, his beloved Bowls. If you got him talking about Bowls, it was a conversation that was very difficult to try and terminate. There is no doubt that Barry has a positive effect on all people that he has contact with. He is an engaging and lovable character. I learnt a lot from Barry. Not only about what to do at work, but more importantly, about how you should behave and think as good citizen and human being. The many people that know, or who have had some sort of contact with Barry Cox, they are better people because of it. There is no doubt, the world is a better place for Him being in it. God bless you Barry. Peter Francis August 2014

AS/NZS 4187 Thank you everyone for taking the time to send in comments and contributing to the 2nd Round public comments They have been addressed. The next step is Standards Australia editorial process. Member organisations vote at ballot Publication by SAI Global could be at the end of this year and early 2015. Thank you! Robyn Williams Chair HE-023 committee (responsible for AS/NZS 4187) Grace Lund I now hold the position of Past President, I would just like to tell you about the upcoming conference for 2015. It will be held in Townsville on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of August. More details will be sent out via flyers. Jupiter’s has put aside a number of rooms for the delegates, and have reduced the prices of the rooms to $135 a night. These rooms are twin share rooms. They have also reduced the buffet breakfast from $40 to $25 per head. As there is a limited number of rooms set aside, it will be, first in first served. If you would like to reserve a room you will need to ring the events coordinator at Jupiter’s, which will be in the flyer soon, tell them that you are attending the SRACA conference on the necessary dates and you will get it at that price. The conference dinner to be held on Friday night, theme is "Tropical", so dress up and have some fun. We hope to see you at the SRACA 2015 conference in Townsville.


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SRACA (Qld) Inc –

Incredible Trade

Fantastic Prizes- Thursday Night WIN! Free memberships

Great Speakers- ANS/NZ 4187, Water, Steam, Dental, Product Families & Bugs

Jupiters - Great Room Deals

DATE- AUGUST 20TH ,21ST & 22ND LOCATION - JUPITERS CASINO More Information on web site soon www.sracaqld.org.au


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SRACA (Qld) Inc – WORKSHOP ‘EXCITING TIMES'

Date: Saturday 8th November 2014 Location: Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital Commence: 08:30 – 09:00 Registration and Tea, coffee,

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome / Housekeeping – 09:15 – 9.45.00 Scope Processing 9.50– 10:30 Dental Topic 10:30 – 1100 MORNING TEA 11.00- 11.30 Water Quality 11:30 – 12.00 TAFE QLD Update/World Conference 12.00 – 12.15 Power point on Standards 12.15- 12.45 Ultra Sonic Cleaner 12.45-13.00 Any questions/open floor RSVP: Monday 3rd November , 2014 for catering to: JANE BUTLER or JUDY SAINTY Phone: 07 3139 5627 or email: [email protected] [email protected]

COST: Financial Members: $10.00 Non Members: $20.00 Financial Student Members: $5.00 PLEASE PRINT DETAILS CLEARLY

SURNAME………………………………………………………….GIVEN NAME………………………………………………………………..

MEMBER YES / NO MEMBER NUMBER……………….

Cheque Money Order Number.…………………………………………………

PLEASE REPLY BY 3rd November 2014

PAYMENT- Cash on the Day OR CHEQUES OR POSTAL NOTES MADE OUT TO STERILIZING RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL of AUSTRALIA (QLD INC. ) The Treasurer, P.O. Box 8421, WOOLLOONGABBA. Qld. 4102 OR

WEB SITE / Credit card : Remember Members you have to go to the Members Area for the reduced Price.


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mailto:[email protected]


JANUARY COMMITTEE MEETING - 7th

PUBLIC HOLIDAY- 26th

"Australia Day"

FEBRUARY WORKSHOP- 7th

"Gold Coast"

COMMITTEE MEETING - 7th

MARCH


NEWSLETTER March/April

APRIL SCHOOL HOLIDAYS- 3rd - 21 st

EASTER WEEKEND- 3rd - 6 th

ANZAC DAY 25 th

MAY WORKSHOP - 16 th

"Brisbane Southbank"


JUNE

Public Holiday 8 th "Queen’s B'day"

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

27 th June - 12 th July

JULY


NEWSLETTER - July

AUGUST

Public Holiday 12 th

"EKKA Show Day"

SRACA CONFERENCE

"20th - 22nd " "TOWNSVILLE"

SEPTEMBER


SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

19th Sept - 5th Oct

NEWSLETTER - Sept

OCTOBER

PUBLIC HOLIDAY- 5 th

Labour Day

WFHSS - 7 th - 10 th " Lillie France"

COMMITTEE MEETING -TBA

NOVEMBER

WORKSHOP - 14 th "Ipswich"

PNG CONFERENCE - TBA

"Port Moresby"

NEWSLETTER - Nov / Dec

DECEMBER

COMMITTEE MEETING - TBA

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

12th Dec - January 2016


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Membership Report

We have lots of new members joining but we would still like past members to continue to support SRACA & enjoy the benefits that we offer. Welcome to all the new members, it's great to have the Dental Industry too.

Robyn Hollis - Membership Secretary. [email protected]

SRACA WEB SITE: REPORT

MEMBERS ONLY SECTION HAS THE- 2014 TOOWOOMBA CONFERENCE PAPERS # 10 years of Changing - Elaine Forster # Quality Tools for CSSD Production - Ben Donnelly # Ro Water- New Standards Brings New Concerns - Dr Surani Sappideen # Gold Coast Hospital CSSD - Simon Vander Kruik # Personality Types - Simone Fitzsimons # The Decontamination & Cleaning process Concerns Regarding Manual Washing & Biofilm - Annie Watts # Long reach Hospital Development- Karen McLellan # Lessons Learnt - A New CSSD - Sue Fuller # Water Quality Standard for CSSD - Craig Smith # Road Cases / Companies - Ian Woods

How to download AS/NZS 4187 from SAI GLOBAL (This is all free) From SRACA Web site -Click on link to go to SAI Gobal- You need to register with SAI Global & wait for email to confirm your registration. More instructions on the Web Site.

ISO access to assess update status for ISO/TC 198 Sterilizing Standards.

The status of International standards can each be looked up on the ISO web-site by going to the relevant Technical committee and clicking on the work programme ‘under development’ tab (click on the stage and it will provide the definition of it). A sample for TC 198 is: Click Here ( If you have a printed copy of news letter go to our web site for the link.

Happy Web Site Travelling www.sracaqld.org.au Cheers SRACA Email addresses:

Jill Cumberland [email protected],

WEB Site / Media [email protected]

[email protected]

10 Life Members 12 Committee Members 10 Associate Members 12 Dental

106 Full Members 1 Students Members

151 Total


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http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_tc_browse.htm?commid=54576&development=on




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