Important employee responsibilities
This section of the website introduces you to critical documentation relating to the University's legislative requirements. I encourage you to work your way through it as it is very important that you understand the University's obligations in these areas and how they relate to you and your role. If you have any questions relating to the information contained here please speak to your supervisor.
- Code of Ethics
- Conditions of employment
- Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Induction
- Copyright
- Intellectual Property
- Trade Practices Act
- Vice Chancellor’s Authorisations (staff access only)
- Personal information and the Privacy Act
The University of South Australia is committed to promoting equal opportunity in education and employment in recognition of the principles of equity and social justice and in conforming with the spirit and intent of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination legislation. The University accepts its responsibility in relation to these rights for people while they are engaged in activities undertaken as part of their study or their employment with the University.
The University provides staff with a number of resources to assist them to teach in an inclusive manner these can be accessed via the Learning and Teaching Unit site: supporting students
Web accessibility
The University of South Australia is committed to ensuring access to online materials for people with disabilities.
As part of this commitment, the University has developed a website that provides staff with the following information:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Checklist for accessible online content
- Useful accessibility resources
- Ten tips for creating accessible content
- Information for people with disabilities
- UniSA Online Accessibility Action Plan
If you have a responsibility for developing materials for the web or as a web author for your local area, it is important that you take the time to review this information.
The University also provides web author training to staff on using the corporate web templates. This training incorporates accessibility elements to ensure the websites created using the templates comply with W3C web accessibility guidelines. More information about this training is available in the Web Authoring Guide.