Health and Safety

The Department is committed to ensuring safety, health and wellbeing through the provision of safe schools and workplaces for its employees, students and visitors. This can only be achieved if we all play our part.

Workplaces require systems for managing health and safety. Having effective health and safety practices in the workplace will assist in identifying, eliminating or at the very least mitigating risk factors which can lead to injury or illness.

Being proactive is the most effective way of preventing injury, which is why there is a need to place greater emphasis on the assessment and monitoring of operations and processes that may generate hazards in your workplace.

For information on implementing a system to manage health and safety in your workplace, see: Occupational Health & Safety Management System