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Action Area description
Leadership
Health and safety is everyone’s business – government, industry and community all need to take a significant role. Similarly, leadership is not solely about how senior a person is. It is also about their commitment and drive — their dedication to ensuring that health and safety is a fundamental part of their everyday business. Leadership is important at governance and management levels, but it is just as important on the shop-floor and that necessitates the active involvement of workers at every level.
Capability
Capability involves equipping people and organisations with the necessary skills and confidence and providing the opportunity for them to contribute to improved workplace health and safety. Capability is critical when building healthy, safe and productive workplaces. This applies equally to small and large businesses and is critical to the work of professional groups and government agencies charged with developing health and safety policy.
Knowledge
Developing effective systems, processes and policy requires sound knowledge. Knowledge informs leadership and fuels the development and maintenance of capacity in the health and safety sector. Knowledge includes health and safety research, incidence data, occupational health data, international trends, workplace experiences, and the accessibility and quality of technical guidance.
Health and safety infrastructure
Workplaces do not operate in a health and safety vacuum. There is a legislative framework, there is a worker compensation and rehabilitation scheme (ACC), and there are a range of training organisations and standards. In addition, workplaces operate in a wider and dynamic labour market. There are also workplace specific systems and processes that support improved health and safety.
In combination, these constitute the infrastructure for health and safety in the workplace. This infrastructure determines the expectations of government, industry and the community, and provides the tools required for the health and safety sector to achieve higher levels of performance.
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