HLTWHS004/CHCLEG003: Legal and Ethical Compliance in the Workplace

This report provides an overview of legal and ethical compliance within a community service organization, addressing key aspects such as legal compliance defined as adherence to government regulations and laws for health and safety, ethical responsibilities focusing on societal needs and stakeholder interests, specific workplace policies and procedures including the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, and methods to monitor and maintain compliance through pre-activity approval and transaction reviews. The report emphasizes the importance of these elements in creating a healthy, safe, and ethically sound workplace environment, ensuring employee satisfaction and organizational productivity. Desklib offers a wealth of similar documents and study resources for students.

HLTWHS004 Manage work health and
safety CHCLEG003 Manage legal and
ethical compliance

Table of Content.
Table of Content............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Legal compliance.........................................................................................................................1
Ethical responsibilities.................................................................................................................1
Specific workplace policy and procedure....................................................................................2
Method to monitor and maintain compliance..............................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The work health and safety or to manage the work with the proper health and safety is the
major regulation which show their contribution with the workplace. In this, the legal and ethical
compliance are also taking part in the workplace. The legal and ethical complication which is
usually related with the privacy and confidentiality of the people towards the people. In this
report, the major discussion is based on the legal compliance, ethical responsibilities, policy and
workplace procedure, and method to monitor and maintain compliance (Bouilloud, Deslandes,
and Mercier, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Legal compliance
The legal compliance is usually defined as the set of process and the procedure within the
specific program which is help to ensure that the adherence toward the government which is
based on the regulation and laws. These law and regulation are helpful in order to provide the
quality of health when working within organisation. The proper work health safety is as an
important aspect which is followed by employer for development of work health and safety
within the workplace. Therefore, it is analysed that legal compliance provides proper structure
which is based on the work safety and also maintain the norms and values of organisation. The
legal compliance usually focuses on the development of the new set of regulation within the
organisation which focus on the employee satisfaction with the term of policy and procedure
which develop wellbeing and resilience among the employee. The legal compliance usually
provides the legal structure which help to show the aspect which productive for the organisation
as well as the employee to take benefits with such contrast (Hashmi, Casanovas and de Koker,
2018).
Ethical responsibilities
The ethical responsibilities are defined as the ability of the individual in order to recognise,
interpret, and act upon multiple of principle and the values which show their standard which is
related with the certain filed, context and so on. While taking the context of ethical
responsibilities in the term with organisation or any workplace, it used to elaborate that they
show their aspect which is based on the societal need and their interest, as a elaboration which is
taken by using the ownership of the effect which is based on activities that have key
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constituencies that majorly include customers, employee, shareholder, communities and the
environments with the all part of operations which is show their role in the organisation
(Hassoun, Sahar, Lakhal and Aït-Kaddour, 2019). The ethical responsibility is important within
the organisation because it help to enhance the outlining acceptable towards the behaviour that is
acceptable beyond the governmental control. The corporation are usually show their
establishment which is related with promotion of integration among their employee and they
used to gain trust from the key stakeholder such as the investor and the consumer. There are
number of employee who used to take ethical responsibilities among their work and workplace
which may show their preferences of the norm and values. Whereas, the responsibility is defined
as ethical concept which usually prefer to the fact that the individual and group have their moral
based obligation and their duties which is related with other and the larger ethical and moral
codes with the set of standard and tradition (Horton and et. al., 2018).
Specific workplace policy and procedure
The major workplace policy and procedure which is implemented within the organisation
show their aspect towards the health and safety. The work health and safety act 2011 usually
show the outline which is based on the requirement and the set of standard that is supportive and
reliable in order to build the effective healthy and safe workplace for the employee. It is usually
show the aspect which is related with protect health, safety and welfare of the employee and the
other people in the place of work (Yanar, Lay and Smith, 2019). It is usually show the aspect
which is based on the legal obligation or the duties which is associated with the worker or
employee. The main of the work health and safety act 2011 is to provide the framework which is
assist the health and safety of the employee within the workplace. Moreover, it also used to
protect the health and safety of the all the other people who might be affected by the task which
is assign for the employee. This specific policy and procedure are used by organisation or firm in
order to enhance the proper workplace environment that protect employee health (Nagin and
Telep, 2020).
Method to monitor and maintain compliance
The ethics and monitoring show the clear expectation but has not been well defined, leaving in
number of firm with the core of disadvantage in order to understand the effectiveness which is
incorporated with the ethics and compliance with the efforts of management (Oswald, Pritzl,
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Wetjen and Gasteiger, 2020). There are some of the method which is used in order to monitor
and the maintain the compliance are:
 Pre-activity approval
 Transaction review which is associated with the expense that spent.
 Review of in process quality and provide the data which is related with the outcome.
 Review of the staff completed checklist.
 Listening to or reviewing of the customer who is particularly involve within the services.
 Attending the presentation (Orr and Davis, 2020).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, the definition and the importance of legal compliance, ethical
responsibilities, policy and procedure and method of monitoring has been discussed which help
to show the context which is related with organisation function and show the approximate
advantage to the employee with such behaviour or context which is discussed.
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REFERENCES
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