WHS Governance and Leadership
Set your organisation up for success and create a sense of urgency through:
- Framing a compelling WHS mission.
- Assigning WHS governance, leadership and managerial responsibilities that ensure demonstrated leadership focus and cross-functional cooperation.
- Adapting your systems of performance setting, actions tracking and assurance.
- Framing a WHS improvement strategy / plan that will convince and engage your workforce.
Raising Workforce Awareness of WHS Aims and Actions
Make clear the WHS aims of your organisation and the actions required to achieve them by:
- Developing awareness campaigns, with messages targeted to specific teams within your workforce, that focus on particular WHS challenges and opportunities they face.
- Methods of conducting safety meetings, presentations or toolbox talks (in-person and digitally) that will bring out the best in all participants.
- Translating the WHS Plan into specific managerial and workforce actions, documented and assured by modifying your existing procedural and management information systems.
Impart-WHS Engagement Model
A method of conducting workplace walk-throughs, involving face-to-face conversations, fostering a direct line of discussion with your workforce:
- Actively demonstrating the commitment of your leadership team to the principles of an inclusive safety culture.
- Sharing stories of how these principles personally resonate.
- Generating great (and sometimes challenging) insights into any concerns and possibilities, including those they may talking about amongst themselves.
- Giving and receiving feedback, via proven methods that maximise mutual discussion and ideas sharing.
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Supplier and Service Provider WHS Alignment
Extending your WHS improvement initiatives to include the relevant considerations within your supplier and service provider arrangements including:
- Framing the imperative when engaging with current and prospective partners in tender, contract and service level related discussions.
- Gaining assurance from designers, suppliers and installers of plant and equipment that due diligence can be demonstrated regarding safe design, installation, use and decommissioning, prior to purchase and installation.
- Reiterating the importance and jointly tracking performance during discussions throughout the outsourcing relationship.
- Identifying opportunities for inter-organisational learning and collaboration.
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Workforce WHS Values and Perceptions Surveys
Provide your team members with the opportunity to provide confidential, candid feedback:
- Based on a joint selection of criteria and associated questions according to your specific challenges and/or program maturity from the Impart-WHS inventory of survey questions.
- Generating enterprise-specific insight into the related interest, concerns and possibilities perceived by your workforce.
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WHS focus groups
Delve deeper into the meaning and implications of on-site discussions and survey findings. Seek feedback on proposed responses and initiatives, and how best to implement them.
Developing or enhancing a WHS self-assessment program
Incorporate criteria that assures widespread adoption of safety leadership behaviours and safe work; as well as the more established WHS compliance criteria.
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