Enforcement of work health and safety laws
This article identifies systemic work health and safety issues that are beyond the control of individual organisations. It highlights seven issues for policymakers and regulators to consider in stewarding the evolution of work health and safety law and practice.
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Published in 2024
Director Pathways Project
Purpose at Work, in conjunction with the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University, was commissioned to interview board directors with disabilities, to understand their pathways to directorships and their experience on boards once appointed. We also completed a literature review. Here is the public version of our report in pdf, machine-readable and Easy Read formats.
Published in 2023.
Accountable Governance
We have produced a handy summary of what the Disability Royal Commission said about boards of disability service providers.
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Published in 2023
Governing for quality and safety
The Australian disability and aged care Royal Commissions have raised important questions about the role of aged care and disability support organisation Boards in ensuring quality, safe services.
This article by Purpose at Work Director Alan Hough interrogates contemporary expectations of social care Directors and considers what this means for governance in practice.
Published in 2022,
What Disability boards can learn from others
Given there is little literature on how disability boards should govern for quality and safety, Purpose at Work Director Alan Hough has studied research on board influence elsewhere.
The article analyses how health and hospital boards govern for quality, and board influence on workplace health and safety, to identify lessons that are relevant to the disability sector.
Author Original Manuscript, published in 2022.
Work health and safety cases concerning disabled people
To promote awareness of the expanding role of the work, health and safety (WHS) jurisdiction in regulating harmful workplace practices, Purpose at Work’s Alan Hough has brought together a compendium of recent disability-related cases.
The Work Health and Safety Cases Digest relate to both workers and people with disability, who are workplace participants under WHS law.
Published August 2022.