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Risk Management – making it part of your corporate culture

Tweet By Leon Harris Published in INsite, February/March 2005 Standards Australia has released a new version of AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk Management that will assist aged care service operators and planners manage safety compliance, security, crime prevention and emergency planning issues. An updated companion handbook, HB 436:2004 Risk Management Guidelines, has also been released, which provides commentary, guidance and examples on how to implement…read more →

Approaches to security

Tweet By Leon Harris Published in INsite, December 2004-January 2005 Aged care operators are increasingly becoming aware that ignoring or delaying credible security risk assessments sometimes results in costly and unfortunate experiences. The range of experiences arising from a criminal incident may include injury to staff, residents and visitors; financial losses (e.g. civil [legal] remedy for personal injury, fines from [WorkCover]…read more →

Flaws in Doors!

Tweet By Leon Harris Published in INsite, April 2004 – May 2004 As security risk management consultants, part of our methodology when undertaking Security Reviews is assessing perimeter security which includes the potential for unauthorised access after hours. A number of operators have external doors electronically locked (with emergency egress capabilities) at a programmed time. This greatly assists in restricting unauthorised…read more →

NSW WorkCover Code of Practice for Cash-in-Transit (CIT) may impact on many aged care operators

Tweet By Leon Harris CPP Published in INsite, February/March 2004 The NSW Code of Practice for the Transport and Delivery of Cash-in-Transit (‘CIT’) has come into effect. The Code has serious legal obligations and ramifications for all organisations that handle cash, including aged care facilities, and clearly establishes responsibility on management (and others).Although the Code relates to NSW, operators in other states…read more →

To light or not to light

Tweet By Jerry Retford Published in INsite, December 2003 – January 2004 “Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” -[Chinese Proverb] Human beings are creatures of light and like moths to a light bulb we tend to gravitate towards light in darkness; indeed our Chinese proverb summarises popular thought on our response to the treatment of darkness, but…read more →

Poor design can be a legal hazard

Tweet By Leon Harris CPP Published in INsite, August-September 2003 Health service fined $180,000 in landmark assault ruling. The following is an extract from the June 2002 news report from the Australian Institute of Criminology (A.I.C) under the title “Crime and Violence Prevention”. “The recent case of WorkCover Authority of NSW v Central Sydney Area Health Service (18 March 2002) clearly showed that…read more →