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NAME OF DOCUMENT
TYPE OF DOCUMENT
Procedure
DOCUMENT NUMBER
SESLHDPR/271
DATE OF PUBLICATION
March 2014
RISK RATING
High
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
REVIEW DATE
March 2016
FORMER REFERENCE(S)
SESLHNPD/68
EXECUTIVE SPONSOR or
Sharon Litchfield
AUTHOR
Peter Kuszelyk
WHS Consultant, Health Safety & Wellbeing
Peggy Pollock
Manager, Health Safety & Wellbeing
Peggy.pollock@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
KEY TERMS
SUMMARY
SESLHD PROCEDURE
Work Health & Safety Statement of Commitment
1.
PR 271
POLICY STATEMENT
Our Commitment
We will continually strive to achieve the highest standards in Work Health and Safety
(WHS) and Injury Management (IM) by implementing Work Health and Safety: Better
Practice Procedures PD2013_050.
2.
BACKGROUND
This procedure outlines how we will comply with all requirements of the NSW Work
Health and Safety (WHS) Act 2011, NSW Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulation
2011, NSW Workers Compensation Act 1987, NSW Workplace Injury Management and
Workers Compensation Act 1998, Workers Compensation Regulation 2010 and relevant
codes of practice.
3.
RESPONSIBILITIES
3.1
3.2
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3.3
3.4
Chief Executive
The Chief Executive retains overall accountability for ensuring that compliance with
legislative requirements and the achievement of WHS policy goals and objectives.
As such the Chief Executive will take all reasonable steps to:
Communicate and promote the WHS Policy, plans and supporting WHS and IM
processes to managers and workers
Ensure known risks are communicated and action is taken to manage these risks.
Ensure the WHS policy objectives (and performance targets) are incorporated into our
corporate and business planning processes and that appropriate resources are made
available to achieve them
Include WHS and IM accountabilities into all senior management performance
agreements and link them to achieving the performance targets in the corporate plan
Establish and promote a consultative approach to managing WHS
Ensure WHS and IM processes are in place to achieve our WHS policy objectives
Ensure an WHS and IM training program is in place to meet our training needs
Ensure processes are in place to monitor, measure, report on and review our WHS
and IM performance and incorporate improvement strategies into the planning process
to continually improve our performance
Monitor and manage WHS and IM performance of direct reports as per Performance
Development Policy PD 131 and Performance Development Handbook Area HB 009
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3.5
3.6
4.
4.1
PROCEDURE
Our Goals
Our goals are to:
prevent work related injuries by systematically identifying, assessing and controlling
work related health and safety risks in compliance with legislative requirements
Appropriately manage injured workers to ensure their early and safe return to work in
compliance with legislative requirements.
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4.3
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4.4
5.
DOCUMENTATION
Our Commitment to Work Health & Safety Appendix 1
6.
AUDIT
The compliance with this procedure will be audited through the WHS & IM Profile every
two years.
7.
REFERENCES
7.1
External References
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 No 10
Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011
Workers Compensation Regulation 2010
Workers Compensation Act 1987
Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998
Work Health and Safety: Better Practice Procedures PD2013_050
7.2
Internal References
WHS Policy Statement
SESLHNPD/89 Injury Management Policy Statement
WHS Definitions Dictionary
WHS Record Keeping Matrix
8.
Revision No.
Jun 2008
Jan 2011
Aug 2013
Dec 2013
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