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Work, Health & Safety and Workers Compensation

 

The Rank & File team has made safety core PSA business.

There is no more fundamental right than the right to have a safe workplace. 

  

Rank & File team achievements:

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  • Held the first ever PSA Mental Health Conference

  • Getting the Government to agree that mental health should be a key focus of the

  • Government Work Health and Safety plan

  • Reinstating a WHS Unit with WHS professionals after the former leadership (2012-2016) deleted the WHS Unit.

  • Working in partnership with Department of Communities and Justice to create a position of Welfare Officer to support the mental health of all workers in Justice

  • Organised for the development of a mental health program in Community Services

  • Assisted delegates negotiate flexible work and safe workplaces during the COVID-19 shutdowns

  • Utilised WHS to ensure job cuts during restructures were minimised

  • Reintroduced Work Health and Safety training including Mental health Care and

  • Resilience, HSR training, Workplace Bullying and WHS intro courses

  • Contributed to Parliamentary Inquiries reviewing workplace bullying in agencies

  • Contributed to multiple bushfire Inquiries including the Royal Commission into the bushfires highlighting safety consequences of poor systems, poor staffing and equipment.

  • Contributed to the SafeWork Guidelines on Sexual Harassment, the ACTU sexual harassment survey, and the CPSU submission to the Human Rights Commission on Sexual harassment

 

Rank & File Commits to:

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  • Continue our campaign to have a public sector mental health strategy in all employers

  • Continue to support our School Support staff campaign for safe workplaces free from workplace violence

  • To ensure that members’ safety rights are at the forefront of government restructure decisions

  • To hold a biannual Mental Health Safety Conference

  • Continue to fight to make our workplaces safer

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