Disability Services Act 2006
sec.58Funded service provider must prepare annual risk management strategy
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sec.58 Funded service provider must prepare annual risk management strategy
Each year, a funded service provider that engages 1 or more persons to carry out State disability work must develop and implement a written strategy (a risk management strategy ) that complies with this section. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. A risk management strategy must include practices and procedures for engaging persons who carry out State disability work for the funded service provider in ways that— promote the wellbeing of people with disability; and protect people with disability from abuse, violence, neglect or exploitation. A regulation may prescribe other matters that must be included in a risk management strategy. s 58 prev s 58 om 2014 No. 12 s 56 pres s 58 amd 2010 No. 5 s 100 sub 2020 No. 39 s 11 (sec.58-ssec.1) Each year, a funded service provider that engages 1 or more persons to carry out State disability work must develop and implement a written strategy (a risk management strategy ) that complies with this section. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units. (sec.58-ssec.2) A risk management strategy must include practices and procedures for engaging persons who carry out State disability work for the funded service provider in ways that— promote the wellbeing of people with disability; and protect people with disability from abuse, violence, neglect or exploitation. (sec.58-ssec.3) A regulation may prescribe other matters that must be included in a risk management strategy.
- (a) promote the wellbeing of people with disability; and
- (b) protect people with disability from abuse, violence, neglect or exploitation.