ACAS (2024)

CHCLEG001 Work legally and ethically

This unit is about identifying the legal and ethical frameworks that apply to your role and working within them. This unit applies to community services and health workers.

How you will be assessed

You will be assessed through:

• Assessor observation on the job
• Supervisor reference (if the assessor is not the supervisor)
• Assignments set below.

Practical

RE CA

You will be assessed in the workplace that has problem solving activities and suitable facilities, equipment and resources. These include current legislation, regulations. and codes of practiceas well as your organization's policies, procedures and protocols. Show your assessor your workplace and the forms, policies, and procedures. Explain how it works as you go. Your assessor may ask you any questions on how it works.

Assignment 1

Specify at least three different situations where your work requires you to follow specific legal and ethical requirements. For each one, describe the situation and the legal or ethical requiement.

Assignment 2

Describe at least three different legal or ethical issues relevant to your work role and develop appropriate responses.

Assignment 3

Describe at least two potential work practice improvements that would improve workplace responsiveness to legal and ethical requirements. Write them in a report for your supervisor, and submit the report.

Assignment 4

Identify at least two improvements to workplace responsiveness to legal and ethical requirements, and write them in a report for your supervisor, and submit the report.

Interview/assignment questions

remaining RK

1. For each topic below, what legal and ethical factors apply to your work in the community services? (Consider international, national, state/territory, local laws.)
1. children in the workplace,
2. codes of conduct / codes of practice,
3. complaints management,
4. continuing professional education,
5. discrimination,
6. dignity of risk,
7. duty of care,
8. primary client,
9. informed consent,
10. mandatory reporting,
11. practice standards,
12. practitioner/client boundaries,
13. privacy, confidentiality and disclosure,
14. policy frameworks,
15. records management,
16. rights and responsibilities of workers, employers and clients,
17. industrial relations legislation relevant to employment conditions of role,
18. specific legislation in your area of work – objectives and key components,
19. work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations,
20. work health and safety.
2. For each of those topics:
1. How are they are applied in your organization?
2. How do they impact individual workers?
3. What are the consequences of breaches?
3. What other human rights frameworks, approaches and instruments are used in your workplace? How do they differ from those requirements listed above?
4. Human rights:
1. Under the Universal declaration of human rights, what rights to clients have?
2. What is the relationship between human needs and human rights?
3. What frameworks, approaches and instruments for human rights are used in your workplace?
5. Compare and contrast a legal and an ethical framework.
6. What are the interrelationships between legal and ethical frameworks?
7. What kinds of legal issues come up in your work role? How do you respond to each one?
8. What kinds of ethical issues come up in your work role? How do you respond to each one?
9. Policy review:
1. How are workplace policies, procedures and protocols developed? How should they be developed?
2. How are they reviewed? How should they be reviewed?
3. What are the processes for consultation and getting input?

Note: Your assessor may also ask you a variety of what if questions.

Detailed requirements

1. Identify and respond to legal requirements.^{L, R}

El/PC 1

1. Identify sources of information about the legal requirements that apply to your work role. Access them and interpret them.
2. Identify the scope and nature of your own legal rights and responsibilities.
3. Adhere to legal requirements in your work, according to workplace policies and procedures and the scope of your role.
4. Recognize potential or actual breaches and report them according to your organization’s procedures.

2. Identify your ethical responsibilities.^{L, R}

El/PC 2

1. Identify, access and interpret sources of information about the ethical responsibilities that apply to your role.
2. Identify the scope and nature of your ethical responsibilities.
3. Recognize potential ethical issues and dilemmas, and discuss them with an appropriate person.

3. Meet your ethical responsibilities.

El/PC 3

1. Meet ethical responsibilities according to workplace policies and protocols, and the scope of your role.
2. Recognize your personal values and attitudes and take them into account to make sure your practices are non-judgemental.
3. Solve problems effectively when you are exposed to competing value systems.
4. Recognize unethical conduct and report it to an appropriate person.
5. Recognize potential and actual conflicts of interest and take appropriate action.

4. Contribute to workplace improvements.^{O In}

El/PC 4

1. Identify situations where work practices could be improved to meet legal and ethical responsibilities.
2. Pro-actively share feedback with colleagues and supervisors.
3. Identify and take opportunities to contribute to the review and development of policies and protocols.

5. Other.

CA, other

1. Manage tasks and contingencies on the job
2. Follow Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards, and industry codes of practice.