Speakers: Professors Lynn Gillam and Clare Delany, Children’s Bioethics Centre, RCH and Associate Professor Helen Irving, Clinical Lead for Children Health Ethics and Law, Queensland Children’s Hospital.

In this session, the initial consideration is safety to hospital staff in the COVID-19 pandemic, and what might constitute acceptable risk to those staff of becoming infected at work. This opens the way for a more general discussion about an ethical approach to staff safety when parents or patients threaten staff.