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WorkSafe ACT is a fully independent office headed by the WHS Commissioner. WorkSafe ACT achieves its objectives through a combination of compliance and enforcement, awareness raising, education, inspection, and investigation. It is responsible for monitoring and enforcing compliance by duty holders in accordance with the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) and associated legislation for Workers’ Compensation and Labour Hire Licensing.

WorkSafe ACT is committed to cultural and organisational change to become a professional, modern, intelligence-led regulator. The work we do carries with it an obligation to act in the public interest which requires standards of professional behaviour and conduct from all employees that promote and maintain public confidence.

If you have a passion for helping others, an interest in human behaviour, have strong interpersonal skills and would you like to work in a team environment, then you could be the candidate we are looking for. WorkSafe ACT’s Psychosocial team is growing, and we have a permanent position available for a candidate with a background or focus on health and safety to fill the role of Inspector (WCO5).

Workplace psychological safety is a rapidly expanding area of work health and safety that is already having significant positive change across a broad range of workplaces. The Psychosocial Inspector has the opportunity to undertake highly rewarding work to enable workplaces to create environments where their workers feel that they can go to work and perform their roles feeling safe. Under general supervision, Psychosocial Inspector will work as a member of a specialist team, making enquiries and regulating workplaces to ensure psychological safety and compliance is maintained across ACT workplaces. Using an intelligence-led approach, the inspector will contribute to the planning of proactive compliance inspections with a preventative focus, while undertaking reactive complaint inspections to determine compliance, and assist in enforcement actions in relation to legislative requirements.

In conjunction with experience or practical knowledge of Work Health and Safety, it is important applicants are able to draw on their understanding of human behaviour when applying the practical aspects of the role. We are looking for applicants that are enthusiastic and people focused, with experience in or across various industries that including injury management, human rights, industrial relations, community/social services, allied health, health services, social science services and psychology.

WorkSafe ACT supports workforce diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally diverse people and those who identify as LGBTIQA+ are encouraged to apply. As part of the ACTPS Engineering Workforce Plan, women are also encouraged to apply.

Notes

Selection may be based on referee reports and written application only. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. This position will be moving to a new workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.

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