Veterinarians and animal handlers
Why vaccination matters for Veterinarians and Vet Students, Park Rangers, Wildlife Rescue Volunteers, Pet Memorials Staff, and Animal Shelter Workers and Volunteers.
Here are some of the main reasons it’s important to keep up to date with your vaccines as someone who works or volunteers with animals.
🐾 Exposure to Zoonotic Diseases
- Regular contact with diseases that can pass from animals to humans (zoonoses)
- Risk from bites, scratches, saliva, blood, urine, and faeces
🤝 Close Physical Contact with Animals
- Handling, restraining, and examining animals requires direct contact
- Contact with fur, skin, and secretions may transmit infectious agents
- Limited ability to maintain physical distance during procedures
🧫 Contaminated Surfaces and Environments
- Clinics, farms, shelters, and kennels can harbour infectious organisms – particularly as pathogens can persist on surfaces for extended periods
- Shared equipment, cages, and treatment areas may spread disease
- Exposure to contaminated bedding, waste, and feed areas
🚜 Field Work and Farm Environments
- Contact with livestock and wildlife carrying endemic diseases
- Exposure to dust, manure, birthing fluids, and carcasses
- Increased risk during calving, lambing, or disease outbreaks
🛡 Maintaining Workforce Capacity
- Veterinary and animal care services are critical for animal welfare and public health
- Vaccination helps prevent shortages during outbreaks
⚖ Workplace Health and Safety Responsibilities
- Supports compliance with occupational health guidelines
- Reduces risk of preventable work-related illness
- Demonstrates commitment to safe practice
- Complements PPE, hygiene, and infection control measures
💪 Protecting Yourself, Your Family and Your Community
- Lowers the risk of severe illness from occupational exposure
- Reduces risk of workplace transmission among staff
- Helps workers remain fit for physically demanding tasks
- Reduces the risk of bringing infections home or spreading to the community
- Supports safe continuation of essential animal services
Vaccinations to consider:
Influenza COVID-19 Tetanus Japanese Encephalitis (certain locations) Q Fever Rabies (if in contact with bats)
Workplace risks vary. Protection should too.
Find out which vaccinations are right for your staff.
- Request a quote, and we’ll collaborate with you to identify industry-specific vaccination needs.
- We then organise onsite clinics at your workplace for your staff, where they can schedule appointments with our skilled nurse immunisers.
- During the initial appointment, our Immunisation Nurse will review each employee’s Medicare Immunisation History Statement and any additional vaccination records to assess their vaccination status. If necessary, vaccinations are administered, and all records are securely stored in our clinical software. Additionally, vaccination records are uploaded to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), ensuring employees have a reliable ongoing record.
- For vaccines requiring multiple doses, we coordinate return visits as needed and are available for new staff requiring vaccinations as they commence their roles.
We understand the health and safety of your employees are of paramount importance, and we are committed to working closely with you to ensure a successful occupational workplace vaccination program