For members who are not familiar with RMAG, it is a group of local government representatives who get together to network with their peers. They share their sector’s knowledge and explore best practice risk management systems, processes and procedures.
The RMAG extends to all local government – officers, managers, directors and CEOs with interests in governance, risk and compliance.
LGIS facilitates these meetings for local government members ensuring it is at no cost and that topics of interest are chosen by the members themselves.
At its core, LGIS is all about local governments working together to achieve best outcomes for their organisations, people
and community. LGSAG is one such initiative where we have collaborated with member representatives to ensure they can create a safe and healthy work environment for their workforce when it comes into effect sometime next year.
The Workers’ Compensation & Injury Management Bill 2023, currently before Parliament in Western Australia, will enact major changes to WA’s workers’ compensation scheme
when it comes into effect sometime next year.
The importance of employers following internal policies and procedures and keeping accurate records can’t be emphasised enough when effectively managing a worker’s compensation claim. Our first case explores the need to follow one’s own internal polices in the context of a worker’s compensation work related stress claim.
We’d love to hear your thoughts. As part of our refreshment of the program, LGIS will be reaching out for your feedback, via email, to gauge your interest in attending and to hear what you would like to see at RMAG. Survey results will shape the agenda to make sure RMAG meets the sector’s needs and provides content that is both contemporary and interesting.
If you’re concerned that we may no longer have your current email address, or would like to send your preferences in advance, please write directly to [email protected]
For more information on RMAG or other information on risk mitigation strategies, please get in touch with the LGIS Risk team.
Each month we take your questions to one of our LGIS team members to answer.
If you want to submit a question for next issue, email us at [email protected]
Welcome to our last edition of Risk Matters for 2023. We always enjoy an opportunity to catch up with members, and in the last quarter of 2023 there’s been plenty.
It’s summer! That time of the year when everyone is ready to celebrate and go on holidays. Tourists all across the country and within Western Australia flock to popular spots to relax and enjoy our beautiful state.
A woman in her 50s lost her balance and fell while stepping up over a concrete mound within a popular caravan park. She fractured her ankle and held one of our regional members liable for the injury and loss suffered, alleged to have been $190k.
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.
