Safe Work Australia’s CEO Michelle Baxter discusses the need build a workforce of workers, leaders and decision-makers who have the knowledge and the skills to effectively and efficiently manage risk.
Work health and safety doesn’t exist in isolation – managing all the business risks together will support a business’s strategic direction and improve both productivity and workers’ health and safety. And it’s never finished – we need to remain alert for new risks.
Safe Work Australia will continue to strive to make our country a world leader in health and safety. We will promote the value of health and safety to the community and its links with Australia's future prosperity.
To achieve improvements in work health and safety there are challenges to meet, and we can help meet them by:
- improving Australians' work health and safety knowledge and skills, and
- helping business leaders fully understanding the complexity of their operations including key health and safety risks, so they can ensure the work environment, processes and systems support health and safety.
Who is this presentation for?
Everyone from the corner office to the shop floor.
About the presenter
Michelle Baxter has been the CEO of Safe Work Australia since November 2014.
Michelle has more than 20 years of public sector experience in employment and workplace relations and work health and safety policy, and is admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor in the ACT.
Supporting information
- Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy Action Area Leadership and culture
- Workplace health and safety, business productivity and sustainability – a report produced for Safe Work Australia by the Centre for Workplace Leadership at Melbourne University
- OHS Body of Knowledge – Risk and decision-making chapter