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- Initial assessment including interviews with executive managers, desktop document review, and sampling audits of operational sites
- Report to Board indicated that behaviour reflected a small business approach,
- there were 34 separate safety systems and no simple means for regular governance or performance reporting.
- corporate role was policy and audit, but there was no audit criteria
- no corporate overview of workers compensation
- OHS at sites well resourced but under-performing
- overall performance assessed as below average (third quartile)
- Two year consolidation and improvement program endorsed by executive.
- Strengthened resourcing of central safety and workers comp. functions.
- Early focus on data capture, recording and reporting mechanisms
- Company objectives, standards, targets and priorities agreed
- Single company wide safety system agreed
- Agreed that it was more important that a smaller number of things be done well rather than try and upgrade all areas at once
- 5 (focal areas) x5 (year) roll out program agreed and audit criteria and expected annual benchmarks for them defined
- Supported executive and advisory staff in roll out (workshops, conferences, launches, videos, documentation, training, etc)
- Identified and led targeted programs in identified higher risk or underperforming areas, including third party relationships.
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