Strategy 3-Enhancing the Justice interface

Incorporating Recommendations 5, 6, 7, 12

This work has been progressed by the Justice Interface working group.

Deter, detect and manage: A guide to better management of weapons in health services

 Deter, detect and manage. A guide to better management of weapons in health services (pdf, 908kb)

This guide to better management of weapons in health services provides direction about key operational, legislative and policy issues (as highlighted in recommendation 7 from the final report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Violence in Nursing) that health services need to consider when developing or reviewing their own weapons management policies and procedures.

Every day’s a Challenge

Every day’s a challenge: Responding to violence in Victorian health services was developed by the Department of Human Services (DHS) in collaboration with Victoria Police and WorkSafe Victoria to promote greater awareness and understanding about the impact of occupational violence in Victorian health services and how it can make every day a challenge for staff, visitors and clients.

This resource uses the experiences of real people such as police and health care workers, talking about real experiences and using their own words.  It will challenge viewers to think about their attitudes to, and beliefs about violence in healthcare and how their beliefs and actions affect others.

Every Day’s A Challenge is one part of a suite of initiatives to assist health services to prevent and manage occupational violence.  The DVD is available to health services.

Occupational Violence Incident Resolution Procedure

The development of an occupational violence incident resolution procedure for use by health care workers and police is currently underway. There will be a pilot of the resource in a metropolitan health service prior to dissemination to all health services.

Liaison with the Department of Justice is ongoing in relation to the review of legislation including the Crimes Act 1958 and Summary of Offences Act 1966 (Vic) and how the review of this legislation may impact on health care workers.