EduSafe @ Curtin

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICY STATEMENT

The University is committed to providing and maintaining high standards of safety and health in the workplace. This will be achieved by maintaining a safe and healthy working environment in consultation with staff and safety and health representatives and through continually improving systems for managing safety and health. Accordingly, the University shall:

• Promote and nurture an organisational culture that adopts safety and health as an integral component of its management philosophy
• Develop comprehensive annual plans for safety and health
• Establish an effective mechanism for consultation
• Maintain a process for resolving safety and health issues and responsibly managing hazards
• Identify safety and health training needs and develop a complementary annual training program

In addition, the University shall ensure that adequate time and resources are provided in the development and preservation of an effective occupational safety and health program.

All persons charged on behalf of the University with the management of others, are responsible for the safety and health standards of the working environment, operations, and all staff, students, contractors and visitors under their control.

Staff and students shall accept their joint responsibility and cooperate in ensuring that the highest possible safety and health standards are maintained in all University activities.

Professor Lance Twomey
Vice Chancellor