Associate Director, Safety and Health

**Position**:
**Associate**
**Director, Safety**
**and Health**

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**Our story and strategicvision Our 04**
**Students 06**
**Our learning andteaching 08**
**Our Commitment to Reconciliation 10**
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**HealthFuturesInstitute Food 13**
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**Associate Director Safety and Health position description 16**
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**Associate**
**Director, Safety**
**and Health**

**The Role of the Associate Director, Safety and Health**

The Associate Director Safety and Health provides strategic leadership and direction for the
provision of the work health and safety (WHS) program for Murdoch University.

The Associate Director Safety and Health leads the WHS Department, encompassing OSH, injury
management, workers’ compensation, and well-being. Ensures WHS services are aligned and
implemented to meet strategic organisational priorities and is consistent with relevant legislation,
standards, policies, and frameworks.

**About Murdoch University**
Murdoch University helps people discover how to make a difference, through
education and research endeavor, and remains one of the most inclusive universities
in the country, providing students with quality education and recognized academic
standing within an engaging and caring environment. We are a university for all,
irrespective of background and social standing with a focus on social equity, self
- direction and freedom of thought and belief.

With strong links to government, business and the community, Murdoch University
helps people discover how to make a difference. We are a young, innovative and
enterprising university with more than 23,000 students and 1,700 staff across Perth,
Singapore and Dubai. We are committed to high quality education, innovative
research, and strong community engagement both locally and internationally.

Our Strategic Plan and Future Horizon 2017-2027 outlines an ambitious blueprint for
development and growth, with a focus on one purpose: to be a creative force for
current and futuregenerations.

We are clear about our two core goals: to educate free thinkers who thrive in society
and are sought after by employers; and, to provide life changing solutions for the
world’s big challenges through our outstanding translational research and innovative
practice.

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**Associate**
**Director, Safety**
**and Health**

**About the workarea**

The People and Culture office is an integral part of the business strategy and decision-making
process focusing their efforts on strategic and operational programs and services that supports
staff across professional and academic areas in the university and organisational strategic
objectives.

We develop partnerships based on trust and integrity to foster excellence, engagement, and
fairness, as we work to strengthen the University’s ability to recruit and retain high quality staff and
develop a culture that encourages and supports academics and professional staff to reach their full
potential.

**Reporting Relationships**

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**Associate**
**Director, Safety**
**and Health**

**Key responsibilities & duties**
- Lead, develops, and manages the WHS - Lead, conceptualise and undertake programs, in
- Department, ensuring the implementation of depth analysis, reviews, and benchmarking to keep
appropriate, contemporary, and timely abreast of emerging issues in the area of WHS,
strategies to meet objectives, priorities and maintain knowledge currency and provide advice
mitigate risks. and thought leadership to support strategic

decision-making.
- Lead the development and implementation of a

new model of service delivery for the WHS - Initiate, lead and develop strong customer focused
function across Murdoch University. partnerships and networks with relevant business units, functional areas, and internal and external
stakeholders in collaboration with the Director
- Responsible for the development and People and Culture to understand the University’s

implementation of strategic risk management objectives and develop plans and strategies that

frameworks to manage critical WHS risks respond to these.

across the organisation. - Lead appropriate governance arrangements and
communication processes to inform Senior leaders,
- Ensure the service is aligned and compliant managers and staff of obligations and

with Murdoch University’s strategic direction responsibilities under applicable legislation and

and consistent with, regulatory framework, regulations, and all relevant codes of practice
- policies, and relevant legislation- Collaborate with regulators, government agencies,
- health agencies and communities on WHS matters.- Provide strategic and timely advice on WHS

matters to Murdoch University senior
management. - Provide direction on the development and building

of strategic capability in