Policy Statement
The Department of Justice is committed to promoting, achieving and maintaining the highest level of health, safety and wellbeing for staff, office holders, contractors, visitors and others associated with the Department’s business and workplaces. Every one of us is responsible for safety – we must work safely, protect the safety of other people and think about how our work affects the safety and wellbeing of others.
The Department will do this by undertaking the following
- Putting people’s health, safety and wellbeing first in everything we do
- Managers, staff and unions will consult on WHS matters, identify hazards and remove them if we can. Where we cannot remove a hazard we will make sure that it causes as little risk as possible
- As far as possible we will avoid creating risk. Appropriate health & safety training will be provided to all workers. Where tasks involve high risk we will examine them regularly with a view to controlling and/or minimising the risk
- Continuing to implement our plans to improve work health, safety and wellbeing and injury management. The plans will be communicated, acted upon and monitored
- Monitoring our performance targets to measure what has been achieved and report on those targets. The Department of Justice will seek to always exceed compliance requirements wherever possible
- Implementing and maintaining a Work Health and Safety Management System that complies with the Work Health & Safety Act 2012 (Tas)
Scope
The policy covers all state servants and statutory and judicial office holders within the Department as well as contractors, visitors to our workplaces, inmates managed by the Tasmania Prison Service and people undertaking Community Corrections and Community Service Orders.
SECRETARY
Ginna Webster
9 December 2019