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Forum on violence

Assistant Commissioner Andrew Crisp and other representatives from Victoria Police, WorkSafe and public health services took part in a best practice forum on occupational violence prevention in Victorian health services. 

The Department of Health’s Nursing and Midwifery Policy Unit hosted the forum, held at St Vincent’s Melbourne. 

It celebrated work done across the state to implement the 29 recommendations of the Victorian Taskforce On Violence In Nursing.

Highlighting the benefits of partnerships, it provided an opportunity for representatives from nurses, occupational health and safety managers, educators and security staff from health services across Victoria, as well as experts in the field, to share initiatives and local approaches to creating a safer workplace.

Topics included:

•             Taskforce and implementation from a rural perspective;

•             A design perspective on preventing occupational violence;

•             Building and promoting partnerships to manage and prevent occupational violence;

•             The importance of training and education in managing and preventing occupational violence;

•             Deterring, detecting and managing weapons in health services.

‘Implementing the recommendations over the past five years has been a worthwhile endeavour,’ said Nursing and Midwifery Policy Senior Policy Advisor (OHS) MaryAnn Lindsay. 

‘The commitment of health services and taskforce members enabled us to use this process to set the framework and put mechanisms in place to support the continued effort needed to provide and maintain safe and healthy workplaces free of occupational violence.’

•             For presentations and the revised policy framework – including principles for managing weapons in Victorian Health services – visit http://www.health.vic.gov.au/nursing/promoting/noviolence.