About Work Health and Safety Branch

Through leadership and individual commitment, Defence aims to ensure no person will suffer a serious preventable work related injury or illness.  The protection of our people is paramount.  At times we require our people to operate in environments of extreme risk and hazard due to the nature of military operations. However, at all times we will manage risk to ensure that when risks are taken they are understood, accounted for, and integrated into our plans and the way we operate. 

The responsibility for work health and safety, both physical and mental, belongs to everyone. We will strive to make measurable improvement in our work health and safety performance through the implementation of the Defence Work Health and Safety Strategy.

In supporting Defence Leaders the WHS Branch will:

• Manage and guide the implementation of the Defence WHS Strategy and its Implementation Plan to realise objectives and their outcomes.
• Provide whole-of-Defence corporate WHS products and services which assist Services and Groups to minimise the incidence and severity of work-related injury, illness and disease.
• Formulate and/or coordinate the design, development, implementation, maintenance, review and evaluation of:
  • a Defence-wide WHS management system;
  • corporate WHS, injury management and rehabilitation policy, procedures, projects and products; and
  • corporate WHS and rehabilitation skilling programs
• Facilitate improved WHS management reporting and analysis;
• Provide strategic, WHS stakeholder engagement, communication coordination, representation and external liaison, and issues monitoring;
• Provide specialist WHS advisory services.

Values/ Principles

In order to achieve our goals, all members of the Branch adhere to, and are accountable for, ensuring that their individual behaviour is consistent with the Defence values of professionalism, loyalty, integrity, courage, innovation, and teamwork.

WHS Branch Organisation

Complete contact details are available from the Defence WHS Contact List. The WHS Branch is currently structured in accordance with the organisation diagram below as of 30 April 2012.

Please Note: The above chart contains descriptions about each Directorate within the WHS Branch. If you would like further information about a particular Directorate, please click on the relevant chart item or visit the links below.

• Director General, Work Health and Safety - Mr. Lindsay Kranz
  
  
• Defence Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
  
  
  • Health and Safety Advisory Services
    
    
  • Health and Safety Capability Development
  
  
• WHS Performance and Assurance
  
  
• Strategic Policy and Coordination
  
  

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