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Disability at Work Conference 2024

Event start date: 23/07/2024

National Disability Services (NDS) calls on employment service providers and other professional employment specialists, to help shape and drive the program for NDS's Disability at Work Conference.

Right on Board – Practice Governance for Disability Service Providers: Governing and Managing for Human Rights, Quality and Safeguarding - Online Series

Event start date: 1/08/2024

Right on Board answers the need as highlighted by the Disability Royal Commission for greater awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

National Quality and Safeguarding Community of Practice

Event start date: 13/08/2024

NDS invites members to join the National Quality and Safeguarding CoP, a peer-led forum covering all areas of providing quality safe services for people with a disability.

Near Miss: An Opportunity to Reduce Risk

A senior person's hand over a walking cane.

Location: National (online)

Date: 31/12/2099

Available now - secure your booking for 2024.

This workshop is in partnership with and facilitated by Preventing Harm Initiative (PHI).

Often before a serious incident occurs, there has been a previous Near Miss that was not reported on. Near Misses are are an opportunity to prevent future harm.

This course will show you what near misses are and walk you through the benefits of reporting them to reduce harm to person receiving services, staff and organisations and create a culture of continuous improvement

Instructor Led Training (ILT) via Zoom

Duration: One hour

Course outcomes:

Value the importance of reporting near misses and know how it successfully reduces risk and improve safety
Know what is a near miss and why are people reluctant to report them
Gain case study experience in identify near miss and strategies which could be put in place to prevent them

Who should attend?

NDS recommends that all staff within disability service organisations are most suited to attend.

Cost

Member: $1225 plus GST
Non-member: $1620 plus GST

Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact L and D Team, Learn and Develop Team, learnanddevelop@nds.org.au, 03 8341 4307

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