Health and safety management system
The legal requirements for health and safety management come from health and safety legislation.
As the result of reviews of the failures of previous legislation; current legislation moves:
- away from a prescriptive approach - telling employers / employees what they must do,
- towards performance or outcome-based law - employers managing risks, in consultation with staff.
Principal to current health and safety legislation are the concepts of:
- risk management, and
- consultation.
Health and safety management system at UTS
Everyone at UTS need to understand their health and safety responsibilities resulting from health and safety legislation.
The UTS health and safety policies reflects the UTS commitment to both:
- risk management, and
- consultation.
The Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor's safety and wellbeing advisory committee's role is to ensure a coordinated, strategic and consultative approach to health and safety management at UTS.
The UTS health and safety management system has been developed to meet the key requirements of the two Australian/New Zealand Standards:
- AS/NZS 4801:2001 Occupational health and safety management systems, and
- AS/NZS 4360:2004 Risk management.
It addresses imperatives on two levels:
- strategic - UTS-wide, and
- operational - for faculties, units and workgroups.
A diagram of the UTS health and safety management system is available.
Strategic health and safety management
The UTS safety and wellbeing plan focuses on the issues and risks concerning the UTS community and aims to address any deficiencies in the UTS health and safety management system itself.
UTS-wide health and safety audits, external audits of the UTS health and safety management system are conducted every five years.
Operational health and safety management
At the operational level, UTS has established a flexible approach the health and safety management, allowing faculties, units and workgroups to determine the procedures that best suit their circumstances in close consultation with staff members.
Find out more about operational health and safety management at UTS.
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Find out more about health and safety management, refer to the health and safety external resources.
