Cultural safety is about to creating an environment where every person is not only treated well in a culturally respectful manner but also empowered to actively participate in interactions, believing they are valued, understood and taken seriously and supported to carry out culturally significant tasks as part of service delivery. For example; a worker may spend time cooking for a funeral and, instead of not allowing this to happen or assuming this is ‘time off’, the non-Aboriginal worker listens to explanations and respects the need for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worker to undertake this task as part of their
