How to safely work in heat?
The Work, Health and Safety Act WA (2020) requires local governments (PCBUs) to ensure health and safety, so far as is reasonably practicable, by eliminating hazards and risks.
Over 80 local government representatives attended the forum held on Monday 28 November at the City of Gosnells.
Commissioners of WorkSafe and Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) explored the implications of work, health and safety legislation (WHS) in the management of volunteer bushfire fighters at the forum.
Frequent natural catastrophes and changes in WHS legislation has lead local governments to focus on emergency response. Especially, the management of volunteer bushfire fighters has been an area of concern within the local government sector.
The event provided local government leaders with an opportunity for constructive conversations on the contemporary issues that concern them in this area.
Christmas trading hours
The LGIS office will be closed from Wednesday 21 December and will reopen Monday 9 January. As always we will have an emergency team available throughout the holiday period to assist our members if required. Please refer to our website for more details. From the Board and staff of LGIS we wish all of our members a safe and merry holiday season.
The Work, Health and Safety Act WA (2020) requires local governments (PCBUs) to ensure health and safety, so far as is reasonably practicable, by eliminating hazards and risks.
Local governments are subject to strict legal obligations, including those contained within the State Records Act 2000 (WA), to maintain records created or received in the exercise of their functions.
When considering high risk or high hazard assets, it is important to adopt a proactive approach while managing them. Due to resource constraints, property risks are commonly managed in a reactive manner after an incident, near miss, or workplace inspection by a regulator or LGIS.
LGIS receives approximately 1,300 claims on average each year; for the past five years, of those the vast majority are common law claims.
A decade’s long partnership between LGIS and the Royal Life Saving Society of WA (RLSSWA) has delivered benefits to the entire WA local government sector – but work still needs to be done to make sure that audit recommendations are actioned to keep aquatic centres safe.
The City of Perth engaged the LGIS injury prevention team
to evaluate workstations of a group of employees at their depot to make sure they were comfortable, safe and less likely to injure themselves.
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.
