Page 2808 - Week 09 - Thursday, 8 August 2013
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• Information on transport options is listed on the ACT Health website. Also, administration staff dealing with clients daily are able to assist with options for clients accessing the centre.
• There is hard copy information available on site including bus timetables and information about all services delivered from Village Creek Centre.
(7) The information in the three surveys was not made publicly available as they were undertaken internally in order to measure (a) service access prior to relocation, and (b) service access and methods of transport post relocation. This was not made publically available because:
1. The first survey was undertaken pre relocation as part of the overall Village Creek Project. The results were included as part of the project and used to measure the numbers accessing services pre move and the transport options utilised.
2. The subsequent survey had a low response rate given the number of participants who were invited to participate but chose not to partake. While this survey provided some useful data, and delivered a similar result to previous surveys, there was not sufficient data obtained to ensure high validity in the statistics collected.
3. The last survey was undertaken only to inform the response to the women’s safety audit undertaken by the Ministerial Advisory Council on Women (MACW) on 5 July 2012 and demonstrated no increase in clients utilising public transport options. The majority of clients still accessed rehabilitation and aged care services via private transport post the relocation of services to the Village Creek Centre. This survey again delivered a low response rate.
(8) As stated in Question on Notice 94 (8), an external audit was undertaken by Wardlaw and Associates in 2008 of the Canberra Hospital site and identified significant risk in regards to workplace safety. This contributed to the decision to move these services to a purpose designed facility.
A further external workplace safety audit was undertaken in August 2011 post relocation to the Village Creek Centre which found significantly improved work safety systems and environments. This was completed by Kaizen Management Services and made recommendations regarding further improvements in workplace safety, primarily from a governance, planning and education perspective.
In May 2012, the Ministerial Advisory Council on Women (MACW) invited the Minister for Women, Joy Burch, to participate in a women’s safety audit of the Village Creek Rehabilitation Centre. Minister Burch participated in an audit on 5 July 2012.
(9) The work safety audits which were undertaken did not include members of the public as they were undertaken for internal management purposes.
Six women participated in the Women’s Safety Audit including three members from Women With Disabilities ACT (WWDACT) and WWDACT representative on the MACW.
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