🚀SafeWork SA to Audit South Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities

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The state's safety regulator will conduct audits of residential aged care facilities throughout South Australia in an effort to lower the risk of staff and resident injuries.This month, SafeWork SA inspectors will begin conducting compliance audits to see how staff members are transferring residents with restricted mobility from one place to another using equipment and other methods. This could include transferring residents from a bed to a chair or bath, from a wheelchair to a toilet, or repositioning them in their bed. SafeWork SA inspectors will provide education, operational guides and checklists to ensure staff follow correct procedures. Facilities found to be non-compliant may be issued with compliance notices to remedy the matter within a specified timeframe if it cannot be addressed while the inspectors are on-site. Equipment commonly used to move residents in aged care facilities include ceiling hoists, patient lifters, stretchers, wheelchairs and slide sheets. The long-term campaign will look at:

• staff having appropriate training

• equipment that is accessible and adequately maintained

• facilities adequately controlling risks associated with hazardous manual tasks.

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The campaign will cover private and state-run residential aged care facilities throughout metropolitan and regional SA. Manual handling of people continues to be a significant issue in the aged care industry. From 2019 to 2023, ReturnToWork SA received an average of 733 claims per year within residential care services, in particular aged care residential services. The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2033 identifies health care and the social assistance industry as one of the six high-risk industries that contribute to 70 per cent of fatalities and 58 per cent of serious workers’ compensation claims. 

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