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Health and Aged Care

Aged Care Providers

Our audit and review process is designed to accord with the ACSAA Standard 4.4 Living Environment and Assessment Module 6.

Undertaking audit and review process is to action the aged care standard, (Standard 4.4) demonstrating and documenting your commitment to Continual Improvement of the built environment.

Employees and Employers in the Aged Care sector will be aware of the repetition and inconsistencies of the many acts and standards applying to Aged Care facilities such as:

  • Federal & State OHS standards,
  • The Disability Discrimination Act 1992
  • The Building Code of Australia and referenced standards

For administrators and Architects every additional level of compliance further compounds the level of inherent risk within the project and the likelihood of error.

Our audit and review process combines the common elements of each standard and replaces the audit repetition with a single comprehensive risk management and quality improvement process.

Employers and Designers in Health Facilities

The term “Design” in the Victorian and Federal OHS contexts refers to a chain of decisions and actions that in some way shape a project outcome and includes decisions made by the entire project team including builders, clients and specialist third party advisors e.g. Occupational Therapists.

It is therefore beholden on the Client and the Architect to ensure that design decisions are well founded in evidence based practice and that the design team is appropriately qualified to undertake the design task.

Arqua Australis provide qualified support to facility managers and designers throughout the construction process and on completion with follow up post occupancy reviews as required by the Aged Care Act.

NEWS / Update: Extracts from State and Federal OHS Acts:

Employees
An employer must ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all the employees of the employer. That duty extends (without limitation) to the following:
(a) ensuring that any premises controlled by the employer where the employees work (and the means of access to or exit from the premises) are safe and without risks to health,
(b) providing adequate facilities for the welfare of the employees at work. (1)

Others at workplace
An employer must ensure that people (other than the employees of the employer) are not exposed to risks to their health or safety arising from the conduct of the employer’s undertaking while they are at the employer’s place of work. (2)

Designers of workplace
A person who designs a building has a duty to ensure that it is designed to be safe and without risk to health when the building or structure is used for the purpose for which it was designed. (2)
(1) Report on the review of the occupational health and safety 2006. Cited September 2008
(2) ASCC General Duties of Care for OHS 2007 S19.

Health and Aged Care Projects

BUPA Australia, New Farm, QLD
To Kenya Forever, Kenya Africa
Waratah Medical Centre, Morisset

ACA Australia
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