OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 12.1 The parties are committed to, and acknowledge the mutual benefit to, and responsibility of, the employer and employees for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with applicable legislation.
12.2 Agencies will strive to achieve best practice in preventing and minimising workplace injuries, illness and periods of absence from work in order to:
12.2.1 Improve workplace health and safety;
12.2.2 Improve return to work performance; and
12.2.3 Reduce human and workplace costs of injury and illness.
12.3 The parties will work towards achieving and maintaining applicable occupational health and safety and injury management standards and practices, including: • Ensuring understanding of the importance of systematically managing OHS in all work activities and workplaces through consultative processes. • Supporting and engendering a safety culture within agencies that promotes the adoption of safe work practices. • Achieving continuous improvement, and best practice, in occupational health and safety and injury management performance. • Introduction and maintenance of monitoring and reporting systems. • Introduction and implementation of more flexible “return to work” options aimed at improving return to work performance. • A collaborative approach to identifying hazards, assessing risks and implementing reasonable measures to eliminate or minimise those risks. • Participation in pro-active prevention strategies aimed at improving the health, safety and well-being of all employees. • Achieving improved outcomes from preventative, rehabilitation and return to work strategies.
12.4 In establishing and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment, an agency will not require an employee to have an unreasonable workload in the ordinary discharge of the employee’s duties.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 11.1 The parties are committed to, and the employees have a responsibility for, maintaining a
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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 30.1 The parties are committed to, and acknowledge the mutual benefit to, and responsibility of, the Employing Authority and Employees for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with applicable legislation.
30.2 The parties will work towards achieving and maintaining applicable occupational health and safety and injury management standards and practices, including: • supporting and engendering a safety culture within health units; • promoting the importance of safe systems of work and the adoption of safe work practices; • achieving continuous improvement, and best practice, in occupational health and safety and injury management performance; • introduction and maintenance of monitoring and reporting systems; • introduction and implementation of more flexible “return to work” options aimed at improving return to work performance; • identifying risks and reasonable measures to eliminate or minimise those risks; • participating in pro-active prevention strategies; • achieving improved outcomes from prevention, rehabilitation and return to work
30.3 In establishing and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment, the Employing Authority will not require an Employee to have an unreasonable workload in the ordinary discharge of the Employee’s duties.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE.
14.1 The parties are committed to, and acknowledge the mutual benefit to, and responsibility of, the employer and employees for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with the principles of the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 as expressed in the Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Policy adopted by the Presiding Officers and Joint Parliamentary Service Committee on 28 May 2009.
14.2 The parties will have regard to the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment’s guidelines in relation to the elimination of workplace harassment and bullying.
14.3 The employer will not require an employee to have an unreasonable workload in the ordinary discharge of the employee’s duties, notwithstanding the sitting hours of both Houses of Parliament.
14.4 The parties will strive to achieve best practice in preventing and minimising workplace injuries, illness and periods of absence from work in order to: • Improve workplace health and safety; • Improve return to work performance; and • Reduce human and workplace costs of injury or illness.
14.5 The parties will work to achieve and maintain applicable occupational health and safety and injury management standards and practices.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 12.1 The parties acknowledge the mutual benefit to and the responsibility of the employer and employees for maintaining a safe and healthy work environment in accordance with applicable legislation and the “Safety and Wellbeing in the Public Sector 2010 – 2015 Strategy”.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 10.3.1 The parties recognise that all staff have an obligation to contribute to the creation of a safe workplace.
10.3.2 All staff are bound to follow the requirements of the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Act 1986 (SA) (in particular, section 21) and the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Regulations.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. The City of Xxxxxx Harbor is committed to continuous improvement in the provision of a safe working environment for employees at all times. The employer and the Union shall give full cooperation to the achievement of high standards of Occupational Health Safety and Welfare. The parties recognise safety education and safety programs shall be fundamental in achieving this objective. On all of the employer’s projects there shall be strict compliance to all relevant Occupational Health Safety and Welfare guidelines so as to provide and maintain a safe working environment. Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Representatives An allowance will be paid to elected Occupational Health Safety and Welfare representatives of $18 per fortnight. The allowance will be paid to “proxy” representatives when undertaking the Occupational Heath Safety and Welfare representatives’ role.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. 12.1. Employees agree to work safely at all times and comply with the Company and site safety requirements including a requirement to wear any personal protective equipment as directed, provided or required.
12.2. Employees must periodically familiarise themselves with current Company and site safety policies.
12.3. Employees must report any safety breach to their immediate supervisor.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY AND WELFARE. The employer and employees recognise the importance of an effective occupational health and safety program in providing a safe work environment for all employees. It is further recognised that improved occupational health and safety will ultimately increase productivity throughout Authority by reducing the number of incidents/accidents and, therefore, lost time.
12.1. The employer and the Union shall give full cooperation to the achievement of high standards of Occupational Health Safety and Welfare. In so doing the employer and employees will strive to continually improve occupational health and safety performance in accordance with the Work Cover Exempt Employer Performance Standards and provide the highest level of rehabilitation processes for employees who sustain a work related injury or illness.
12.2. The parties recognise safety education and safety programs shall be fundamental in achieving this objective. On all projects the employer and employees shall comply with all relevant Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Guidelines and Safe Work Procedures so as to provide and maintain a safe working environment.
