Category six – Best demonstrated healthy and safe work design (Organisation/business entry)

Describe the changes your workplace introduced to address the physical, mental and emotional demands of the work, including new systems, tools or process implemented including:

• The work
  • How healthy and safe work is performed.
  • The task duration, frequency and complexity that affects work, health, safety and wellbeing.
• The physical work environment
  • Plant, equipment, materials and substances used at work.
  • Vehicles, buildings, structures and places of work.

• The workers
  • Physical, emotional and psychological capabilities and needs.

Describe the commitment to improving physical, mental and emotional work demands, including but not limited to:

• Leadership and commitment
  Describe how decision makers and leaders have supported or influenced an integrated approach to work health, safety and wellbeing through good work design such as:
  • providing adequate resources and building capability
  • actively engaging in health, safety and wellbeing
  • encouraging a culture that supports worker participation.
• Consultation and communication
  Describe how workers have been engaged, including those in the supply chain and networks, including:
  • identifying and managing work health and safety hazards
  • involvement in solutions to improve work health, safety and wellbeing.

• Hazard identification and assessing worker needs
  Describe the processes involved to identify hazards and how the workplace assesses and controls the risks to workers in all elements of:
  • physical environment
  • biomechanical environment
  • cognitive thought
  • psychosocial environment.

Outline how these hazards have been addressed through good work design.

Describe the outcomes have you achieved from applying good work design principles in your workplace including:

• improved business efficiencies, productivity and return on investment
• other achievements such as:
  • improved health and safety
  • reduced injury rates
  • reduction in diseases
  • improved organisational culture.
• use by stakeholders including:
  • future or current use in other industries
  • supply chain improvements
  • community and/or customer satisfaction.