Safework SA has given management at the Royal Adelaide Hospital a month to comply with a new notice to improve conditions for its workers.
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00:00During a site visit to the Royal Adelaide Hospital last month, SafeWork SA inspectors
00:06found an ED struggling with patient demand and failing to minimise the risks to workers'
00:12psychological health and safety, issuing an improvement notice with the deadline of three
00:17weeks that passed today.
00:20Central Adelaide have provided the right information to SafeWork SA, they're certainly expecting
00:25that that will meet the requirements that SafeWork have set forth.
00:29Earlier today, SafeWork SA agreed, saying it is satisfied the RAH has complied with
00:34the improvement notice, it hasn't issued a fine, but has handed out another improvement
00:39notice to further assist the hospital in improving its work health and safety management systems.
00:45The RAH has a month to comply.
00:48The opposition says SA's hospital system is buckling.
00:52The hospital system is not safer since the SafeWork SA report was handed down.
00:57We know that because there have been a couple of high profile assaults on clinicians during
01:03the window since the report was provided.
01:06Last week, three staff in the RAH ED were assaulted by a mental health patient.
01:10SA Health says it recently added an extra security team to the ED, brought in more mental
01:15health staff to support patients and has made more duress alarms available.
01:20The doctors' union says more longer term solutions are needed.
01:25It's not safe in our emergency departments and we actually need to put in place appropriate
01:29systems, appropriate supports, particularly during this winter.
01:33The government says it's trying.
01:35We know that there's a long term need for us to improve the capacity of our system and
01:40that's what we've been setting out to do right from the beginning.
01:43The statewide Code Yellow internal emergency continues across the health network.