Overview
With training in OHS Consultation, Return to Work (RTW) Coordination and Mental Health First Aid (2020), we can provide expert consultancy to help you and your team manage health and safety related obligations.
Workplace Health and Safety
Our Workplace Health and Safety advisory service can provide you with access to guidance and advice including in relation to the following:
- Consultation and communication on work health and safety matters (including Joint Consultative Committee activities)
- Work health and safety policy development and review
- Occupational Violence
- Harassment and Discrimination prevention
- Sexual Harassment (including the recently enacted ‘positive duty’)
- Health and safety committee activities
- OHS risk assessments
- OHS inspection checklists
- Psychosocial hazards – an emerging area of work health and safety compliance.
We also have a specialist HR advisory support service to assist you with complex health and safety related issues such as Workers’ Compensation (including mental injury or stress claims), extended sick leave and obtaining independent medical assessments. Where required, we can also put you in direct contact with our network of Workplace Relations legal advisors.
Contact us today and we can assist you with practical advice and solutions for your health and safety activities.
Sick Leave
Dealing with employee sick leave can be increasingly challenging in the current world of work. We have a depth of practical experience to support you with expert guidance and tactical advice on navigating sick leave including in relation to:
- Managing employees who take regular periods/days of leave
- Identifying and managing patterns or trends in relation to leave (such as persistent absence on a specific day or time)
- Extended periods of leave
- Writing to staff members in relation to leave matters and how to do this in an industrially appropriate manner
- Informal and formal counselling with regard to absence on leave
Referring an employee for an independent medical assessment.
Contact us today for guidance and advice on how to navigate sick leave in your workplace.
Workers’ Compensation
We can offer depth of experience in the management of sensitive workers’ compensation and injury management matters. Our advisory service covers:
- Mental injury (stress claims)
- The newly enacted ‘stress and burnout’ exclusion for events that are usual or typical in one’s job role and reasonably expected to occur
- Exceptions to the new ‘stress and burnout’ exclusion for workers engaged in roles that involve exposure to traumatic events
- Injury claim investigations
- Workers’ Compensation claim administration (Notification of Injury/Employer Response)
- Return to Work plans
- Suitable duties
- Liaising with insurers (Assessment Officers/Senior Review Officers/Dispute Resolution Managers).
- Conciliation before the Workplace Injury Commission (WIC).
These types of matters are often very time sensitive, so contact us today for immediate assistance.
Health and Wellness Programs
Did you know that there are a great many health and wellness initiatives that you can implement to strengthen engagement beyond out dated things like yoga, fruit baskets and birthday cakes? We can offer depth of experience in advising on the following health, wellness and wellbeing activities in contemporary workplaces:
Contact us today and let us point you in the right direction on meaningful health and wellbeing initiatives that you can measure.
- Online ‘mental health hygiene and fitness’ programs with a suite of sessions
- inclusive of gratitude, mindfulness and gentle movement (either self paced, visible or camera-off)
- Programs that enable and inform dietary guidance and advice
- Allied health related initiatives
- Budgetary allocations + time allotments to facilitate individual health, wellbeing, self care and lifestyle choices
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training and education
- Right to disconnect provisions (either policy or industrially binding).