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Rules and regulations at the workplace

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College for Law Education and TrainingPSPLEG003Assessment task 4Compliance ReportOur reference:CLET Student Your reference:CLETDate:To:College for Law Education and TrainingFrom:Subject:INTRODUCTIONCompliance means the state or fact of meeting rules, policies or standards set by anorganisation efficiently. In accordance with this context, the compliance report of Department ofhealth a government agency operating in Australia, will be made. This report will consist of all thelegislation and acts such as workplace, workplace health and safety, equal employment opportunity,equity and diversity principles that are necessary for the organisation to comply with will bedescribed. It is essential for an organisation to follow certain rules and regulations in order foreffective growth and development.Internal memorandum addressing the answers of following questions1) Importance of work practices and procedure being used to provide a consistent model ofcompliance with legislative requirements within the Department of Health is provided below:Workplace health and safety: Workplace health and safety compliance is very important forthe organisation to follow, in order to avoid any uncertainties or future risk while doingspecific work activities (Smith and Lee, 2015). The management of Department of healthhad formulated and implemented policies like employees are provided with efficientenvironment that promotes and supports the physical and psychological health and improvedtheir well-being in the organisation. Though there are few loop holes in legislations whichare required to overcome by the management of Department of health such as providingradiation protective equipments to doctors and other health care professional staff in order toprotect themselves from harmful radiation excreted by X-Ray machines, etc.Code of Conduct/Ethics: The management of Department of health in Australia developed asystematic and efficient code of conduct and established ethical work practices in theorganisation (Enticott, and et.al., 2015). It provides a suitable and precise framework andguideline to every employee on the basis of which they must conduct their particular workpractices. The codes are determined by the NSW health code of conduct in whichorganisation aim to promote a positive work environment, demonstrate honesty andintegrity, acting professionally and ethically, etc.2) Outlining current requirements under the enabling act for compliance specific to the workplaceof Grafton Base Hospital, New South Wales is provided below:Work Health and Safety Act 2011: The main object of this Act is to provide for a balancedand nationallyconsistent framework to secure the health and safety of workers andworkplaces by protecting workers from harm, providing for fair and effective workplace1Version 1.0/Aug 2016PSPLEG003 Report Template
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(Noel and Babor, 2017Pate and et.al., 2015). Department of Health in Australia needs toformulate effective policies in order to improve the work place health and safety legislationimplemented in various hospitals in the country.
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The Equal Opportunity Act 1984: The equal opportunity act 1984 proposed that everyemployee may be provided with equal opportunity in the organisation (Smiddy, O'Connelland Creedon, 2015). In short, it encouraged the identification and elimination ofdiscrimination, harassment and victimisation faced by any employee working in theorganisation. Department of Health requires complying with this act effectively in order toeradicate the issues regarding discrimination faced by employees in the organisation.3) Requirement and procedure to exercise discretion in the organisation is provided below:Administrative decisions often include the exercise of discretion. The Department of Healthshould be follow the discretion in the organisation in order to possess the power of decision makingto improve its performance and efficiency (Tong and et.al., 2015). For the agency, decision making,legislation specifically provides the lawful authority for action to be taken and decision to be made.Discretion exists when the decision-maker has the power to make a choice about whether to act ornot act, to approve or not approve, or to approve with conditions. Legislation often compels adecision-maker to act in a particular way. Where the words ‘shall’ or ‘must’ are used in legislation,there is usually no discretion available to the decision-maker. The role of the decision-maker is tomake a judgement taking into account all relevant information. The decision making power enablesthe management of the agency to make the correct and right decision at right time which aid inpreventing any future uncertainty. Process by which The Department of Health can exercise discretionary powers:Act in good faith and for appropriate motives.All the legislative procedures must be followed.Focus on relevant tasks and avoid the irrelevant ones.Acting reasonably on reasonable grounds.Decisions must be based on supporting evidences.Important matters must be considers and matters of no importance must be ignores.Giving proper consideration to the merits of cases.Exercising the discretion independently and not under the dictation of any third party.4) Ways by which one can encourage other to identify and obtain advice on apparently conflictinglegislative requirements:Must refers to impose legal obligations on readers. It means to make something mandatory. Maymeans that legal obligations are not mandatory and completely optional.By providing brief education about the laws which are applied in the organization and whichare legislated by the government of the country.By taking legal advice from lawyer or legal entity regarding laws which are meant to befollow and laws which are not meant to be follows.By conducting induction and orientation training which provide the details of rules whichare required to be followed.5) Meaning of equal employment opportunities, equity and diversityEqual opportunity: Equal opportunity means all the employees working in the Departmentof Health must be treated equally and identically (Roberts and et.al., 2014). The concept ofequal opportunities is a broadly used phrase which promotes the idea that everyone inworking in the organisation must have equal chance to apply and be selected for the post.For this Equal Opportunity Act was proposed in the legislation of Australia in 1984, which
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