Strategy 5-Effective Reporting and Monitoring

Incorporating Recommendations 21, 27, 28, 29

• The DHS Victorian Health Incident Management System (VHIMS) project will deliver a system for collection and review of state-wide incident information including OHS incident types (inclusive of occupational violence and including data elements identified by the Taskforce).  The full implementation of VHMIS is anticipated to be 2010.

• The department will then work with VHIMS regarding implementation of mechanisms to enable state-wide aggregation, analysis and trending of incident data.

• The VHIMS data specifications for health services occupational violence data collection is available at:

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/clinrisk/downloads/data_specification.pdf