Workplace Health and Safety Advisor

1 month ago


Logan City, Australia Queensland Government Full time

About the Department of Education

The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About the Role

The successful applicant will have relevant experience and/or training. Additional training to be provided as required.

Responsibilities of the role include:
Provide advice to management on all matters pertaining to the prevention of accidents, a wide range of hazard identification and control, promotion of health and safety, environmental and risk issues as they relate to students, staff and contractors.
Conduct proactive risk assessments and inspections to identify any hazards and unsafe or unsatisfactory workplace health and safety conditions and practices.
Develop, promote and coordinate appropriate training on various health and safety topics that will develop awareness and compliance with legislative and departmental health and safety.
Develop, revise and maintain effective communication links with the Workplace Health and Safety Committee by providing regular reports and feedback on activities including prevention of accidents, promotion of health and safety, risk issues and emergency procedures.
Facilitate the school's Workplace Health and Safety network through the following processes:
Organise four Workplace Health and Safety Committee meetings per year
Perform Secretariat duties for the Committee meetings
Organise professional development opportunities within the meetings
Provide advice and support on departmental Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing procedures, guidelines and other resources.
Carry out and report on inspections to ensure safe work practices and environments are maintained, undertake the evaluation of the use of safety equipment and chemicals and develop and implement emergency procedures.
Collate data related to Workplace Health and Safety for Internal School Reviews.
Develop and implement procedures and processes for Workplace Health and Safety, including risk assessments, to coordinate and ensure ongoing compliance with the Workplace Health and Safety Program.
Investigate, manage and report on the investigation of all serious work injuries, work caused illnesses and dangerous events that occur at the school.
Liaise with the management team, officers of WorkCover and the department's Organisational Safety and Wellbeing unit relating to the status of individual Rehabilitation and Return to Work Programs.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply:
Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
Attach a 1-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License._



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