Safework Inspector

**SafeWork Inspector - WHS Regional**

**Position**:SafeWork** **Inspector

**Team**:WHS Regional Central West

**Duration**: Ongoing (permanent)

**Office Location**: Goulburn

**Closing Date**:Wednesday 8th February [at 9.59am]
- Are you passionate about safety and interested to work in a regulatory agency?
- Can you solve complex regulatory problems in a professional and customer focused manner?
- Join Australia’s largest and high safety regulator helping to secure the safety of NSW workers and communities

**About us**

SafeWork NSW is the state’s workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to reduce work related fatalities, serious injuries and illnesses by ensuring compliance with work health and safety legislation and improving the safety culture in NSW workplaces. We also work in partnership with SIRA to improve the return-to-work practices of employers.

Customer Service is a new department transforming the way NSW Government agencies interact with customers. We are passionate about putting the customer at the centre of everything we do and adopting new technologies to make government work better. Customer Service is a service provider and regulator, focusing on delivering first-class customer service, digital transformation and regulatory reform to create better outcomes for the people of NSW.

Better Regulation Division (BRD) works across a broad portfolio of functions and projects to deliver better regulation in NSW. These regulators include SafeWork NSW, Liquor and Gaming NSW and NSW Fair Trading.

**About the team**

SafeWork NSW is the state’s workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to reduce work related fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety and associated legislation. We also assist the State Insurance and Regulatory Authority to achieve safe, timely and durable return to work of workers following a workplace injury, through monitoring and enforcing employer obligations with workers compensation legislation.

**About the role**

As an Inspector in WHS Regional, you will be responsible for:

- Undertaking proactive site inspections, responding to customer requests, completing preliminary incident investigations, delivering presentations, and working with major industry stakeholders to improve safety standards
- providing advice regarding safe work practices, return to work and how to comply with work health and safety and workers compensation legislation
- Producing high quality reports to confirm your actions
- Ensuring internal administrative compliance by completing travel, expense, and time keeping records
- Contributing to a positive, supportive, and fun workplace

**To be successful, you will have**:

- ** **Strong communication skills to engage and influence key stakeholders to improve regulatory outcomes
- High level written communication skills and an ability to understand comprehensive and/or technical reports
- Well established resilience skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a diverse team
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a timely manner
- Demonstrated knowledge and use of digital technology tools including proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
- Work a 38-hour working week, including some weekends and participate in the After-Hours Emergency Response Service
- Receive an attractive salary package along with the required tools of the trade, including a vehicle with access to private use (currently at a cost of approximately $200 per fortnight)
- Be able to access flexible working conditions within operational requirements

**Essential requirements**
- Ability to travel, work remotely and out of usual business hours
- Hold a NSW ‘C’ class drivers' licence with a satisfactory safe driving record and a requirement to maintain the safe driving record throughout employment
- Satisfactory criminal record check
- Satisfactory medical assessment capacity regarding physical and psychological impacts of the inherent duties of the role

**How to apply**

Please submit the following by Monday 30 January 2023 9:59am (AEST)
- Your resume (max. 4 pages)
- A Cover Letter (max. 2 pages) outlining your relevant skills
- A copy of your current online driving record from Service NSW
- A copy of your current demerit points from Service NSW
- A talent pool may be created to fill future ongoing opportunities._

**Closing Date: Wednesday 8th February [at 9.59am]**

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