Australian work health and safety enforcement regarding service provision to people with disabilities: lessons for service providers*

Hough, Alan; Bigby, Christine; Marsh, Dru

doi:10.26181/23233511.v1

Australian work health and safety enforcement regarding service provision to people with disabilities: lessons for service providers*

journal contribution

posted on 2023-06-05, 07:54 authored by Alan HoughAlan Hough, Christine BigbyChristine Bigby, Dru Marsh

In Australia, work health and safety legislation applies to all work-places, including those where disability-related supports and serv-ices are provided. It is thus relevant to people with disabilities(including people with intellectual disabilities) and the workers sup-porting them. The legislation allows work health and safety regula-tors to take enforcement action against people and organisationsthat breach their legal duties, including through prosecution andagreeing to enforceable undertakings. Using legal databases andregisters of enforcement actions, this article examines the extentand circumstances of prosecutions and enforceable undertakings inAustralian disability-related services and supports and identifiesnine lessons for providers of services to people with disabilities.

History

Publication Date

2023-05-25

Journal

Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Pagination

22p.

Publisher

Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

ISSN

2329-7018

Rights Statement

© 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.