The answer will be different for every person, but local government is always at the heart of what turns a group of people into a community. It’s the gathering places of open spaces, playgrounds and sports facilities; it’s the library, community and recreation centres.
It’s passionate, local government people who welcome and support refugees, coordinate books-on-wheels, deliver community workshops, teach children how to swim or keep the parks, roads and gardens in good repair.
The community is at the heart of WA local government, and at LGIS we’re passionate about supporting our members in doing what they do best.
For more than 25 years we’ve worked with our members to protect their organisations, their people and their communities.
Every local government initiative is supported by LGIS whether it’s through risk assessments to create safe public amenities, training staff to keep them safe, tailoring injury management to get them back to work, or protecting infrastructure that is vital to building thriving towns and cities.
The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder took strong steps forward in supporting the mental wellbeing of its workforce by expanding the one-day RU OK? Day initiative into a week of presentations, workshops and activities to help staff develop skills and techniques to improve their mental resilience.
When it comes to sun protection things are a little more complicated than SLIP, SLOP, SLAP, SLIDE, SEEK for outdoor workers.
With summer on its way, it’s important to focus on appropriate personal protective equipment
to shield workers from the harmful effects of UV rays while maintaining wearer comfort.
Six Regional Risk Coordinators (RRC) work with members across six regions, developing and implementing programs to keep staff and communities safe.
For many small regional local governments there’s no budget for an occupational health and safety expert – but when neighbouring LGIS members’ pool their money together they’re able to share risk and safety experts through the RRC program.
Regional services manager, Jordan Reid said regional towns are often under-resourced.
“The regional program is designed to give an arm and a leg, so these towns don’t have to hire a full time employee,” he said.
“In the country people aren’t as risk averse as they are in the city.” This is where our risk coordinators step in to the benefit of the community.
The answer will be different for every person, but local government is always at the heart of what turns a group of people into a community. It’s the gathering places of open spaces, playgrounds and sports facilities; it’s the library, community and recreation centres.
More than 140,000 people turned out for the pinnacle event of Perth Festival earlier this year. Fans lined Canning Highway to mark 40 years since AC/DC’s front man Bon Scott was laid to rest at Fremantle Cemetery.
Great Eastern Wheatbelt RRC Chris Gilmour tells a story about a local grader operator who had a near miss with a small child. “The (grader) driver was a grandfather and it really shook him up,” he said.
LGIS is the unifying name for the dedicated suite of risk financing and management services for WA local governments, established by the WA Local Government Association in conjunction with JLT Public Sector (part of the Marsh group of companies). LGIS is managed by JLT Public Sector (ABN 69 009 098 864 AFS Licence 226827).
Risk Matters, via this website, is designed to keep members, their staff and elected members informed on topical risk management and insurance issues and LGIS programs and services.
