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HOW TO USE THIS DICTIONARY FOR:THE AGED CARE INDUSTRYWelcome to the Aged Care Industry Job Dictionary. You can customise the dictionary by using your computer and/orthe disk provided. Please download the occupations relevant to your organisation from the website or CD ROM. Arange of occupations relevant to aged care are listed, however not all may be relevant to your organisation.You can either add or omit information to tailor a job description within your organisation. You may even wish toattach some additional photographs. Ensure that the work attributes section that lists the frequency of activities isupdated. The columns on ‘time spent per day’ and ‘repetitions per day’ may need to be modified accordingly for yourparticular organisation. Work mechanics/ergonomics may change from time to time and from job to job, therefore thehuman factors sections (such as heights, reaches, rest breaks, safety gadgets etc.) may need regular updates.REHABILITATION PURPOSES• Find and download the occupational description for the injured worker from the software, eg, an enrolled nurse’sjob description could be downloaded and printed.• Ensure the task matches the duties performed or else modify the script accordingly prior to printing.• Either fax or email this information to the treating medical practitioner if requested by the rehabilitation provider.• Identify suitable tasks from within the range of duties for the injured worker to commence work, with the agreementof the treating medical practitioner and, if involved, the rehabilitation provider.• Agree on how to update/increase the injured worker’s duties; or seek an occupational therapist’s orphysiotherapist’s guidance to outline the duties program. If the worker is unable to undertake their pre-injuryduties, you as an employer could offer alternative duties from within this job dictionary. This process ensuresreduction in income maintenance costs and the development of secondary conditions.• User-friendly software could be developed to assist employers inexperienced in management of workerscompensation and identification of suitable duties. Such software may assist in fast-tracking a worker’s early returnto suitable duties based on the nature of the worker’s injury/condition. This information is to be forwarded to thetreating medical practitioner.AS A PREVENTATIVE TOOL FOR PRE-EMPLOYMENT ASSESSMENTS• The assessing medical practitioner has an overview of general job demands and may be able to use it to establishsuitable medical assessments. These are then used to determine a worker’s suitability for the given job.• A Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) could be conducted where tests could be modified to match with therequired job demands. Objective measurements of the workers’ capacities and limitations are compared with thephysical demands of the job in question.• Some employers may prefer to do a more specific task analysis prior to the development of a pre-employmentassessment for their workplace.AGED CARE INDUSTRY JOB DICTIONARY4
EDUCATION PROGRAMS• The Job Dictionary can be used in education programs to:• demonstrate correct and incorrect work practices, using the photos taken during the Job Dictionary preparations• prepare a data show in conjunction with the basic anatomy/bio-mechanics and medical information, which cansubsequently be printed into a small booklet for in-house training programs.DEVELOPING POLICY INFORMATION• Feedback from workers and supervisors should be collected and analysed following the education programs. Thisfeedback should then be listed as positive and unsafe work habits. All parties must then reach an agreement as towhich work practices should be undertaken for the future. The education program would have highlighted themedical and subsequent administrative consequences of non-compliance to these agreed work practices.• This information could be regularly updated via an in-house provider or an external advisor.AN ADDITION TO OHSW AUDITS• Information collated during Job Dictionary assessments can be forwarded to the in-house OHS adviser or anexternal adviser.• The information can be used as part of a risk management process, as a basis for developing safer workprocesses.AGED CARE INDUSTRY JOB DICTIONARY5
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Page 3: CONTENTSIntroduction• Glossary of
Page 7 and 8: GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Page 9 and 10: RELEVANT LEGISLATION:THE OCCUPATION
Page 11 and 12: DIAGRAM 2. POSITIONS OF THE HAND AN
Page 13 and 14: TABLE 2. PHYSICAL DEMANDS FACTORSBA

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