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Ethical Law Essay

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Reporting issues or breaches of ethical or legal practice to relevant people
A breach is a failure to do what is required by a law, an agreement or a duty. It is a failure to act in a required or desired way. This means that breaches occur when legislative requirements are not complied with. © TAFE WSI - OTEN
Examples of breaches of legislation and standard procedures in the workplace may include the following:
1. accessing and reading unnecessary patients medical history and records
2. accessing information that is not required and needed to their job
3. accessing information on family, friends stored in electronic or hard copy files
4. using unauthorised shared passwords
5. signing for another person's signature
6. lost keys
7. first …show more content…

It may also state how the matter should be rectified.
It is an offence not to comply with a PIN, however the person or PCBU can request the regulator to appoint an inspector to review the notice. The inspector can confirm, amend or cancel the PIN

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Reporting of breaches
Any breaches of legislation to standard procedures must be reported to relevant personnel or immediate supervisor/manager in the first instance as breaches can have effect clients, work health and safety of the workforce or can have effect on organisational reputation in anyway.
Other than breaches, any unsafe work practices must be reported to health and safety representatives. When you recognise another worker’s unethical act, your first option is to confront the worker yourself and discuss the issue. If that is not successful you may need to report the unethical conduct to someone in higher authority. You will certainly need to report the conduct if the rights of others, as outlined in the code of ethics, are not being respected. When reporting unethical conduct, you need to be clear:
• who was involved
• when the incident(s) occurred and who else was present
• the grounds on which you believe the conduct to be unethical, and
• what other actions you have taken eg spoken to the person.
When considering reporting unethical conduct, you need to access your agency’s policy and procedures to know who to direct the report to.
Managers are required to encourage

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