Action

Priorities for 2006/7

Significant activities in the 2006/7 year that will contribute to the Strategy outcomes and vision include:

• establishing the new Workplace Health and Safety Council
• developing a 10 year Strategy Implementation Road Map to identify short, medium and long-term measures to achieve the Strategy’s vision
• promoting the Strategy to government agencies and key stakeholders and actively seek partnership projects that support the Strategy
• promoting and supporting government leadership through implementation of a Government Leadership Programme involving government as leaders and champions of health and safety practice and procurement
• promoting and supporting industry leadership through implementation of an Industry Leadership Programme that involves and acknowledges industry as champions and leaders in health and safety
• progressing two National Priority Areas – Airborne Substances and Vulnerable Workers
• reviewing the evaluation framework of the Strategy to provide more effective communication and reporting on progress
• promoting the links between health and safety performance and workplace productivity
• commencing research on the links between health and safety performance and employee participation
• progressing the whole of government project to align better the Health and Safety in Employment /Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation/Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Acts as part of the Ministerial review of Regulatory Frameworks (Quality Regulation)
• progressing the whole of government project to improve the surveillance of occupational disease and injury.

Progress Reports

Progress reports on the Strategy will be made annually. The first progress report has been published in November 2006.