National Disability Services - NSW
Office: Level 4, 60 Pitt St Sydney 2000
Mail: PO Box R160, Royal Exchange NSW 1225
Phone: 02 9256 3111 Fax: 02 9256 3123
Email: ndsnsw@nds.org.au

Disability Safe is a project to inform the establishment of a consistent approach to reasonably practicable risk management in the disability service environment. To do this, resources are required to assist the sector deal with significant OHS risks confronting the sector but which were beyond the scope of the Disability Services Occupational Health and Safety Project (DSOP) summarised below.

Contact Gordon Duff, Special Projects Manager on (02) 9256 3117 regarding Disability Safe.

INFORMATION, TOOLS & RESOURCES

As part of the Disability Safe Project, we are providing you a one-stop shop of information, tools and resources on Safety in the Disability Sector. This table below provides you links and documents you are free to use. The table will be regularly updated.

General OHS Information Tools and Resources	Workers Compensation & Injury Management Information Tools and Resources	Research Information on Safety and impact on the Disability Sector
General Information What is Reasonably Practicable? (pdf 66 kb) • Hazard Identification Report (pdf 140kb) • Thinking Safety Together – We’re OK (pdf 43kb) • Risk Management Flow Process (pdf 142kb) Poster – Prevent Injury_PPE A3 (pdf 95kb) • Poster – Prevent Injury_Safe Lifting A3 (pdf 110kb) Risk Management WorkCover NSW Hazpak Risk Management Guide Key Nine OHS Risks Workplace Violence • Workplace Violence SAFER (pdf 140kb) • Workplace Violence Information Guide, November 2007 (pdf 158kb) Aggression Incident Report Plant Safety • Management Safety of Plant Information Guide Version 1.0 (pdf 120kb) Manual Handling • Manual Handling part of your OHSMS (pdf 59kb) Electrical Safety Working at Heights Hazardous Materials Working Environment • Working in Isolation • Noise Management • National Code of Practice for Noise Management & Protection of Hearing at Work, 3rd Edition 2004 (pdf 480kb) • NSW Code of Practice – Noise Management 2004 (pdf 224kb) • Victoria – WorkSafe Guide Noise Management, 2005 (pdf 3mb) • Hazardous Locations Bus checklist Hazard Report Form Incident Report Form OHS Consultation Statement Example OHS Policy Induction Checklist • Slips, Trips & Falls Disability Safe – Slips, Trips & Falls Management Guide WorkCover NSW – Preventing Slips, Trips & Falls Guide WorkCover NSW – Preventing Slips, Trips & Falls Information Fact Sheet for Workers Procurement of Goods, Works & Services Contractor Agreement Hazardous Substances & Dangerous Goods	General Information WorkCover NSW – Watching out for You Poster (pdf 416kb) Workers Compensation • Workers Compensation in NSW (weblink) • Workers Compensation Changes – November 2007 (weblink) • Workers Compensation Scheme Change October 2007 (pdf 67kb) Injury Management • Injury Management Flowchart Information Guide (pdf 152kb) • Injury Management Information Guide Ver 1.0 (pdf 86kb) WorkCover NSW: Return to Work Programs Guide 2003 WorkCover NSW: Benefits Guide April 2008 WorkCover NSW: Claims Estimation Manual 2005 WorkCover NSW: Guides for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment WorkCover NSW: Provisional Liability and Claims Guidelines WorkCover NSW: Medical Certificate Form WorkCover NSW: Medical Certificate Notes on how to complete WorkCover NSW: Statement of Witness to Accident Form WorkCover NSW: Wages Definition Manual 2003 WorkCover NSW: The New Simple Way to Notify Work-Related Incidents. WorkCover NSW: Subcontractor Statement Workers Compensation Commission website Disability Safe: Guidelines for Confidentiality of Injury Management Information Disability Safe: Safe Return To Work Plan Disability Safe: Information Consent Form template Disability Safe: Pre & Post OHS Purchasing Checklist	Best Practice Guidelines for Manual Handing Risk Management in the Disability Sector – NSW Dept of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, June 2006 (pdf 357kb) Out of Harms Way, Exploring the Intersection of OHS Legislation and Disability – 2004, Larissa Burns, University of Western Sydney (pdf 121kb) NSW OHS Act 2000 v’s Disability Services Act 1993 – NSW Council of Social Services, 2005 (pdf 42kb) Manual Handling Resource 2004 – NSW WorkCover Authority (pdf 1.1mb) Victorian Homecare OHS Guidelines, Oct 2005 (pdf 1.70mb) OHS & Disability Discrimination Law Reflection, University of Western Sydney, no date (pdf 166kb) Disability Services OHS Report) Oct 2006, ACROD NSW (pdf 1.06mb)

This table was updated on 25 July 2008. This is an evolving table of documents. Please be aware that more information, tools and resources will be added at any time. Information is correct at the time of publication.

PROJECT UPDATES & NEWS

08 July 2008 - Return to Work Coordinator Training Poll

17 June 2008 - Changes to Workers Compensation Premiums – NSW (Info-e)

06 June 2008 - Workers Compensation Discussion Paper - NDS Submission (News Update)

05 June 2008 - New Resource: Pandemic Influenza Workbook from FaHCSIA (Info-e)

21 May 2008 - WorkCover Training Grants / National Manufacturing Week

16 April 2008 - Project News

19 December 2007 - Project Update - Training

18 December 2007 - Workers Compensation & Injury Management Poll

12 December 2007 - Project Update 02

13 November 2007 - Project Update 01

Disability Services OHS Project (DSOP) 2005 - 2006

The Disability Services Occupational Health and Safety Project (DSOP) began as a 12-month project being led by a Working Group made up of representatives of NDS NSW (formerly ACROD), WorkCover NSW and the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (DADHC). DSOP was jointly funded by NDS NSW and WorkCover NSW, and was established in response to industry concerns about tensions between disability services legislation and occupational health and safety legislation. Download DSOP Terms of Reference

DSOP was officially launched in August 2005 with a seminar, Occupational Health and Safety Challenges in the Disability Services Sector, which included concurrent workshops in the areas of accommodation support, community access, community support, employment and respite. The workshops were focused on issues relating to meeting the requirements of both disability services and occupational health and safety legislation. The issues identified during the workshops have provided a basis for further investigation by the DSOP working group. The DSOP Working Group has held 3 forums, and engaged consultants to undertake work with the sector on disability services specific resources in the areas of manual handling, violence and working at external locations.

ENTER DSOP WEBSITE HERE

DOWNLOAD THE DSOP REPORT

Disability Services Occupational Health and Safety Project Report, launched Friday 17 November 2006 by The Hon John Della Bosca, NSW Minister for Disability Services and Commerce. View the Minister's letter to the project group.