Occupational Health and Safety Policy

Warringah Council is committed to the health and safety of all employees, contractors, labour hire employees, volunteers and visitors to the workplace, and the effective rehabilitation of injured staff.

The General Manager shall ensure that Warringah Council accepts its moral and legal responsibilities to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all employees, contractors, labour hire employees, volunteers and visitors to the workplace.

This Policy provides all Warringah Council staff with the authority to take actions required to ensure health, safety, and welfare at work.

The General Manager, Directors, Managers, Team Leaders, employees and contractors/labour hire employees shall be held accountable for fulfilling their occupational health and safety responsibilities.

Warringah Council is committed to:

• Complying with all relevant Occupational Health and Safety legislation and industry standards.
• The risk management process and ensuring consistency with the nature of workplace activities and scale of OH&S risks.
• Establishing measurable objectives and targets for OH&S to ensure continuous improvement aimed at elimination of work-related illness and injury.
• The provision of appropriate OH&S training for all employees.
• The consultation process to ensure all employees including contractors, labour hire employees and volunteers are included in the decision-making processes impacting on workplace health and safety.
• The dissemination of OH&S information to all employees, contractors, labour hire employees, volunteers and visitors to the workplace.
• The effective implementation of the OH&S Policy.
• Integrating the management of Occupational Health and Safety into Council's Management Plan and Operational Plans.
• The provision of adequate resources and management systems to monitor, control and take action on occupational health and safety issues.
• The ongoing development, implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of Council’s management of occupational health and safety.

Rik Hart, General Manager   

Roz Hughes, Chairperson OH&S Committee