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With increased rates of infection among health workers during COVID-19, it’s important to know how to protect yourself from exposure and learn what you can do to make your workplace safe. This Safe Work month Webinar will look at the research around how the virus transmits, what this means for workers and how you can best protect yourself.

Register to find out: What we are learning about COVID-19 transmission in healthcare settings What this means for healthcare workers and PPE Infection control measures The importance of fit testing How the NSWNMA can help you achieve improved access to PPE and fit testing

Guest speakers: Professor Raina MacIntyre is Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. She leads a research program in control and prevention of infectious diseases, spanning pandemics and emerging infections, epidemiology, vaccinology, biosecurity, risk analysis, personal protective equipment, mathematical modelling, public health and clinical trials.

Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah is an infectious diseases and general physician at The Alfred Hospital. She is an MRFF TRIP Fellow with research interests in artificial intelligence and health services research.

OCTOBER IS SAFE WORK MONTH Get involved to help promote safer working environments and put an end to workplace violence. For more information on events and resources, visit

www.nswnma.asn.au/safer-work-safer-care Authorised by B. Holmes, General Secretary, NSWNMA

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