May 2010
Western Health Security Services
Manager John Miles, Senior Sergeant Damien Jones, Leading Senior Constable David Keyes and Security Coordinator Jeff Young launch the Violence
Incident Resolution Pack.
Western Health combating Occupational Violence
With Footscray Police, Western
Health has developed an Occupational Violence Incident Resolution Pack with
advice for employees to reliably report an incident of occupational violence.
The resource kit contains action
forms, action checklists, useful website addresses, resolution procedures,
roles and responsibilities of key players and background
information—everything needed to help understand the process of reporting
occupational violence.
Funding for the initiative came
from the Department’s Occupational Violence Prevention Fund 2008–2011.
The fund was established in
February 2008 with $4 million over four years to support strategies to prevent
and manage occupational violence against nurses and other health care workers
in Victorian public health services.
About $400,000 from the fund was
recently allocated to 10 health services to act as demonstration
sites—Western Health is one—for a Building better partnerships
initiative.
The initiative aims to
strengthen the relationship between health services and key agencies such as
Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria and/or custodial services, facilitating
better interagency management of the factors/issues that impact on the
management and prevention of occupational violence.
• For more information on other work that has been undertaken by the Department to implement the Taskforce on Violence in Nursing recommendations visit http://www.health.vic.gov.au/nursing/promoting/noviolence.
