Health and Safety Responsibilities for Sensitive Claims Providers
As an ACC-funded Provider subcontracted by a Supplier for Sensitive Claims, practise your health and safety responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and in relation to your clients and your Supplier. In this practice, we cover Providers' health and safety duties, management of risks and incidents and documentation requirements.
What You'll Learn
This PracticeLab quiz helps you revisit the essential concepts that guide safe, quality practice. Answer the questions, read the explanations, and build confidence in the knowledge you bring to your role.
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Your Health and Safety Duties as an Independent Contractor
Understand how the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 applies to you as a sole practitioner, including what duties you hold for your own safety and the limits of what your Supplier is responsible for.
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Safe Service Locations and Working Alone
Apply the Service Schedule requirements for safe premises to your day-to-day practice, including how to assess and manage risks when delivering services in dispersed or isolated locations without direct organisational oversight.
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Managing risks and incidents
Providers as contractors are expected to identify and manage workplace risks that they can't eliminate and incidents that occur. Risks and controls must be regularly monitored and addressed as they change.
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Evidence of Health and safety management
It is important that Provider can evidence that risks associated with the contracted services have been identified and assessed and can detail controls implemented to eliminate or minimise risks.