Compliance Report: Legislation, Ethics, and Procedures Analysis

This compliance report examines the Department of Health in Australia, outlining essential aspects of organizational adherence to regulations. It emphasizes the significance of workplace health and safety, ethical conduct, and adherence to legislation like the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the Equal Opportunity Act 1984. The report details the procedures for exercising discretion within the organization, promoting compliance through education and legal advice. It also defines equal employment opportunities, equity, and diversity, alongside environmental and occupational health and safety procedures. The report identifies potential inadequacies that could lead to non-compliance, such as ineffective counseling and disciplinary actions, while highlighting ethical conduct within the department. Finally, it presents consequences of non-compliance, such as transfers, fines, demotions, dismissals, and legal liabilities. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the importance of following rules and regulations within a workplace.

Compliance Report

INTRODUCTION
Compliance means the state or fact of meeting rules, policies or standards set
by an organisation efficiently. In accordance with this context, the compliance
report of Department of health a government agency operating in Australia,
will be made. This report will consist of all the legislation 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 be described. It is essential for an organisation to follow certain rules and
regulations in order for effective growth and development.

1) Importance of work practices and
procedure
• Workplace health and safety: Workplace health and safety compliance is
very important for the organisation to follow, in order to avoid any
uncertainties or future risk while doing specific work activities.
• Code of Conduct/Ethics: The management of Department of health in
Australia developed a systematic and efficient code of conduct and
established ethical work practices in the organisation

2) Outlining current requirements under the
enabling act
• Work Health and Safety Act 2011: The main object of this Act is to
provide for a balanced and nationally consistent framework to secure the
health and safety of workers and workplaces by protecting workers from
harm, providing for fair and effective workplace.
• The Equal Opportunity Act 1984: The equal opportunity act 1984
proposed that every employee must be provided with equal opportunity in
the organisation

3) Requirement and procedure to exercise
discretion in the organisation
• 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.

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• 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 conflicting legislative
requirements
• Must refers to impose legal obligations on readers. It means to make something
mandatory. May means that legal obligations are not mandatory and completely
optional.
• By providing brief education about the laws which are applied in the organisation
and which are legislated by the government of the country.
• By taking legal advice from lawyer or legal entity regarding laws which are meant
to be follow and laws which are not meant to be follows.
• By conducting induction and orientation training which provide the details of
rules which are required to be followed.

5) Meaning of equal employment
opportunities, equity and diversity
• Equal opportunity: Equal opportunity means all the employees working in
the Department of Health must be treated equally and identically.
• Equity and Diversity: Workforce diversity means different types, culture,
civilisation, religion of people working in the organisation for one
common purpose, i.e. to accomplish the organisational goals and
objectives

6) Ways by which Environmental and occupational
health and safety procedures applied in the
Department of Health
• Resolving issues related with work health and safety.
• Taking advice from workers and involving them in order to improve the
standard of environmental health and safety.
• Supervision of health of workers and conditions of workplace in order to
acquire information regarding the health and safety of employees and
workplace conditions

7) Three possible inadequacies of procedure
which may contribute to non-compliance
• Counselling: Inadequacies of procedure in providing effective counselling
to employees leads to non compliance of legislation in The Department of
Health.
• Disciplinary actions: Employees not following rules and policies as per
prescribed legislation is the major issue faced by the Department of
Health which leads to non compliance of laws.

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• Demotion: Employee found in any activity which is not related with the
organisation business and which violets the rules and regulations are
imminently demoted from their current post without any notice. Thus, it
leads to contribution towards non compliance of legislation.

8) Identification of relevant of conducts/ethics
in The Department of Health
• Promote a positive work environment:
• Demonstrating honesty and integrity.
• Using official resources lawfully
• Equally treatment of patient: