NDIS provider fined $1.9m over death of at-risk man who choked on a toasted sandwich
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6TQX1)
Inadequately trained staff from Valmar Support Services failed to follow dietary advice when feeding the man, judge finds
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An NDIS provider has been ordered to pay the largest ever penalty of its kind over the death of an intellectually disabled man, who choked on a toasted sandwich because improperly trained staff failed to follow dietary advice.
The man died in May 2020, three days after being fed by workers at a residential home operated by Valmar Support Services in the Canberra suburb of Richardson.
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