Workplace Health & Safety

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ACCI Stands For:
Safer Australian Workplaces

Creating safer workplaces & safer methods of working
where employers, employees & other parties accept their
mutual & collective responsibilities

Overarching objectives:

  • Achieve improved workplace safety culture and performance
  • Achieve a nationally consistent, effective and balanced Workplace
    Health and Safety (WHS) regulatory regime
     

Policy objectives:

  • Promote a culture of communication, mutual respect, co-operation and personal
    responsibility to manage WHS
  • Assist in the development of evidence based regulation and decision making  on
    WHS issues
  • Influence government to implement a nationally consistent WHS legislation and
    regulations
  • Support the adoption of performance-based legislation in all jurisdictions
  • Promote the implementation of uniform and practical Model WHS legislation
  • Raise awareness amongst employers of the importance of improved workplace
    safety in running and managing a business
  • Increasing the capacity of employers to achieve improved Workplace Health
    & Safety performance
  • Implementation of ACCI’s policies by Safe Work Australia
  • Circulate  publications and general information to promote nationally
    consistent WHS legislation
  • Support effective education and training programs and general information programs in
    WHS
  • Maintain support for the overall objectives of the National OHS Strategy 2002-2012
  • Promote practical and useable WHS information for small businesses
  • Further develop and promote WHS goals for small businesses