Categories Insignificant Minor Moderate Critical Child/Student Insignificant impact on Moderate impact Major impact on Loss of life, impact on the the physical, on the physical, the physical, permanent Safety physical, psychological or psychological or psychological or physical, psychological or emotional emotional emotional psychological, or emotional wellbeing of a wellbeing of a wellbeing of a emotional injury wellbeing of a child/student child/student child/student or multiple child/student serious injuries Workplace Health No medical Minor injury Injury requiring Serious injury Loss of life, and Safety treatment requiring first aid medical (injuries) permanent required treatment (e.g. treatment or lost requiring disability or injury minor cuts, time of less than specialist or multiple bruises, bumps) four days medical serious injuries treatment or hospitalisation or lost time of greater than four days Legislative Breaches of a Breach resulting Breach resulting Breach resulting Breach resulting Compliance technical nature in exposure to in threats of: in ministerial in parliamentary that do not civil action but legal action (civil inquiry, warnings scrutiny, expose DET to fairly unlikely and criminal); to senior prosecution, legal action and investigation by management, imprisonment, can be managed an administrative fines or litigation or litigation through routine body; greater than greater than $1 activities registrations, $500,000, million or closure licenses or registrations, of multiple permits being licences or services revoked, or permits being adverse revoked or comments made closure of a few in audits or key services ministerial inquiries Financial <$100k $100k - $500k $500k - $1m $1m - $5m >$5m Temporary Minor disruption Restrictions or Severe delays or Non-delivery or disruption to to delivery of disruption to restrictions to key loss of critical delivery of products, delivery of products, products, products, services or products, services or services or services or systems services or systems systems systems systems Service delivery No measurable Short term Longer term Restricted ability Inability to deliver impact on interruption to interruption to the to continue services service delivery the delivery of delivery services delivering services services Reputation Some attention Limited damage Some negative Negative Significant and from minor to the publicity or publicity or sustained
Categories Insignificant Minor Moderate Critical Child/Student Safety Insignificant impact on the physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing of a child/student impact on the physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing of a child/student Moderate impact on the physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing of a child/student Major impact on the physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing of a child/student Loss of life, permanent physical, psychological, or emotional injury or multiple serious injuries Workplace Health and Safety No medical treatment required Minor injury requiring first aid treatment (e.g. minor cuts, bruises, bumps) Injury requiring medical treatment or lost time of less than four days Serious injury (injuries) requiring specialist medical treatment or hospitalisation or lost time of greater than four days Loss of life, permanent disability or injury or multiple serious injuries Legislative Compliance Breaches of a technical nature that do not expose DET to legal action and can be managed through routine activities Breach resulting in exposure to civil action but fairly unlikely Breach resulting in threats of: legal action (civil and criminal); investigation by an administrative body; registrations, licenses or permits being revoked, or adverse comments made in audits or ministerial inquiries Breach resulting in ministerial inquiry, warnings to senior management, fines or litigation greater than $500,000, registrations, licences or permits being revoked or closure of a few key services Breach resulting in parliamentary scrutiny, prosecution, imprisonment, or litigation greater than $1 million or closure of multiple services Financial <$100k Temporary disruption to delivery of products, services or systems $100k - $500k Minor disruption to delivery of products, services or systems $500k - $1m Restrictions or disruption to delivery of products, services or systems $1m - $5m Severe delays or restrictions to key products, services or systems >$5m Non-delivery or loss of critical products, services or systems Service delivery No measurable impact on service delivery Short term interruption to the delivery of services Longer term interruption to the delivery services Restricted ability to continue delivering services Inability to deliver services Reputation Some attention from minor Limited damage to the Some negative publicity or Negative publicity or Significant and sustained
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