Focus area 3: worker engagement and participation
We want to understand how businesses and organisations engage with workers, how workers participate in health and safety, and the impact this has on health and safety.
On this page
All businesses and organisations are required to have ways of engaging with their workers and allowing them to participate in work health and safety regardless of their size, level of risk, or type of work. The HSW Act gives businesses and organisations flexibility in how they achieve this.
Worker engagement and participation can take many forms, from regular discussions and ‘toolbox talks’ to more formal approaches like health and safety meetings and health and safety representatives. Workers also have a duty to take reasonable care with their health and safety. We want to understand what forms of worker engagement and participation you find most effective.
Questions
17. Does your business or organisation have:
Elected health and safety representatives
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
Informal health and safety representatives or champions
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
A health and safety committee
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
A system for regular health and safety communications
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
Regular meetings where health and safety is discussed
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
Regular health and safety briefings, eg ‘toolbox’ meetings
-
Yes
-
No
-
Don’t know
Other worker engagement and participation practices (please specify)
18. From your experience, either for a business or as a worker, how effective do you think the worker engagement activities that your business or organisation uses are? Please explain your answer, including providing any examples if you have them.
-
very effective
-
quite effective
-
not that effective
-
not at all effective
19. From your experience, either for a business or as a worker, do you think workers are doing enough to keep themselves and their colleagues safe?
< Focus area 2 | Focus area 4 >