Vaccination Pre-screening Information
Aspen Corporate Health has been employed to provide vaccination services for your organisation.
It is important we obtain information from you to be able to provide this service.
You work in an industry where you will have specific Occupation-related risks of disease/s which can be vaccinated against to reduce risk. This, along with following your workplace practices, will help to minimise risk of infections which can have permanent and unwanted consequences.
By completing this Vaccination Screening form , this helps us to understand what you have been vaccinated against in the past and also contains request for us to access the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) using your Medicare details to see if there is record of vaccinations for you. It is important to understand that AIR was only broadened to include adult immunisations in 2016 (having initially been the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register from 1996) and also that whilst recommendation was to record all vaccinations on the Register, it was not mandated thus not having a record on this Register does not mean you were not vaccinated.
We set a high standard to obtain this information due to vaccination providing very good protection against infection and to recognise that a Full vaccination (ie. Having all the recommended vaccinations at set intervals) is very important to achieve this protection. Incomplete or unavailable immunisation record can necessitate further vaccination or in some cases blood testing to check immune status.
Other sources of immunisation record besides AIR can include the GP/immunisation centre at which you obtained your vaccination.
Whilst personal history – you telling us what you have been vaccinated against without documentation being available – is useful, it is considered to be the least robust of all these methods to confirm vaccination status, particularly as there may be uncertainty about all the diseases the vaccine protected you against.
If there is uncertainty you will be directed by the vaccine requirements as determined by your Employee in consultation with Aspen Medical and the Department of Health/ ATAGI guidelines. We will document this on the AIR for your future record.
Our clinical vaccination team (Nurses/Doctors) are able to be contacted to discuss your circumstances and to document this to determine which vaccine/s are appropriate for you should you wish to clarify your history.
It is also recognised that vaccination cannot be mandated but that not being vaccinated can have implications on what steps/urgency is needed should you become exposed to the infection. It is thus important for our clinical vaccination team to be aware of your circumstances so we can provide this information.
As with all request for your information, we will treat it with the utmost respect and in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988
