Healthy at work, safe at work
Comcare’s focus is on preventing harm in the workplace, keeping workers healthy and safe at work, and reducing the number and severity of safety incidents. Our education and assurance services will focus on employers who do not get the safety message.
We will respond to safety incidents in a timely way and seek to ensure appropriate justice in response to death, serious injury or dangerous occurences. Comcare will continue to support Safe Work Australia and contribute to a seamless transition of the federal jurisdiction to new harmonised work health and safety laws.
Delivering on our strategic priorities
1. Promote worker health, well being and resilience |
2. Prevent harm in federal workplaces |
3. Stronger enforcement and |
4. Transition to national model for workplace health and safety laws |
| > create a centre of excellence in psychosocial factors to prevent and better manage psychological injury and to contribute to improved individual and organisational resilience > collaborate with government and social partners to identify and implement innovative approaches to improving worker health and wellbeing > promote better safety leadership and work health culture in federal workplaces > measure the long-term health and well being of federal workers to tackle the obstacles to a life in work > promote the health benefits of fair and decent work to help productivity and participation > strengthen workplace disability confidence through workplace culture and systems that support ‘ability to work’ > respond to the changing nature of work, an ageing workforce and emerging work health issues and new technologies. |
> co-design a service delivery model that integrates all aspects of work health and safety > support active participation of federal workers in organisational processes and safety systems for workplaces > focus education and assurance services on employers who do not get the safety message > celebrate and share best practice case studies to highlight innovation and positive outcomes > collaborate with federal, state and territory authorities to reduce red tape and the burden of regulation > utilise other federal agencies and external experts to enhance work health and safety regulatory capacity and services > local delivery of prioritised targeted work health and safety campaigns to educate and influence behaviour > continue to improve the self-insurance licensing approval and monitoring processes > expand national safety and rehabilitation audit programs to federal government employers. |
> timely investigation of safety incidents > ensure appropriate justice outcomes in response to death, serious injury or dangerous occurences > hardwire learning gains from safety incidents into workplace improvements. |
> support Safe Work Australia in its development of model work health and safety laws, regulations and codes of practice > work with state and territory regulators to ensure a nationally consistent approach to implementing model work health and safety laws > ensure seamless transition of the federal jurisdiction to new workplace health and safety arrangements > promote the importance of safety leadership in the workplace to champion the prevention of harm. |
