Knowledge guides

LG14: Policy development and workplace relations

Investigations, procedures, and clinical assessment tools

Trainees will know the scientific foundation of each investigation and procedure, including relevant anatomy and physiology. They will be able to interpret the reported results of each investigation or procedure.

Trainees will know how to explain the investigation or procedure to workers/patients, their families, and/or carers, and be able to explain procedural risk and obtain informed consent where applicable.

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Important specific issues

Trainees will identify important specialty-specific issues and the impact of these on diagnosis, management, and outcomes.

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  • Sources of information about past significant events, including written and electronic records and interpersonal information within the organisation
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis (or related) of occupational health services
  • Systematic approach to assessing and evaluating workplace health programs
  • Worksite visits
  • Awareness of trends toward casual work, employment of immigrants, employment through agency hire and contracting companies, flexible working hours, outworkers, part-time work, and working from home, and how they may affect occupational health and safety and issues such as consultation with workers, reporting of hazards, and reporting of injuries
  • Broad economic factors that influence business, and factors influencing the allocation of resources within businesses
  • Budgets
  • Commonly used or established occupational health and safety services that can be used for reference
  • Components of business plans / organisational objectives
  • Define the limitations, purpose, spectrum, and strengths of:
    • disability support organisations
    • environmental activist groups
    • government (local, state, and federal levels) and the relevance of their agencies to occupational or environmental health
    • human resource management
    • legislative compliance
    • local single-issue community action groups
    • management of change
    • policy and procedure development
    • production
    • strategic planning
    • union representatives who visit or are employed in workplaces
  • Different quality assurance processes, and their strengths and weaknesses
  • Discern what is essential from what may be ‘nice to have’
  • Factors influencing workplace culture
  • Interaction with managers and leaders
  • Issues at stake in a disagreement, and respond to the associated emotional concomitants
  • Organisational needs, based on its type and culture
  • Potential need for a staged introduction of services offered
  • Refusal to undertake inappropriate activities
  • Relevant codes of practice, industry standards, and laws
  • Set up, maintain the independence of, and evaluate the performance of an occupational health service sufficiently equipped at a suitable location
  • The workplace health and safety culture at organisations
  • Types and likelihood of risks
  • Types of organisational structures