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Prevention principles

The National OHS Strategy supports the adoption of systematic approaches for the prevention of death, injury and disease to persons in the workplace. This prevention is based on the following principals:

• A comprehensive and systematic approach to OHS risk management
• Responsibility to eliminate or control risk. Whether that responsibility be with managment, supplier, designer, or manufacturer
• Cooperation and commitment of all workplace parties.  All workplace parties must accept responsibility for identifying OHS issues and initiating prevention action
• Workplace parties to be appropriately skilled in OHS so that they can participate effectively in consultations and in the identifying and implementing of OHS improvements
• Governments in their capacity as major employers, policy makers, regulators and procurers, have considerable influence over the achievement of better OHS outcomes in Australia
• Effective national action requires major national stakeholders, including all governments, to be committed to coordinated, consistent and cooperative approaches to OHS improvement, and
• Evaluation of prevention initiatives and the sharing of solutions and evidence of what works among OHS stakeholders

 

• A comprehensive and systematic approach to OHS risk management
• Responsibility to eliminate or control risk. Whether that responsibility be with managment, supplier, designer, or manufacturer
• Cooperation and commitment of all workplace parties.  All workplace parties must accept responsibility for identifying OHS issues and initiating prevention action
• Workplace parties to be appropriately skilled in OHS so that they can participate effectively in consultations and in the identifying and implementing of OHS improvements
• Governments in their capacity as major employers, policy makers, regulators and procurers, have considerable influence over the achievement of better OHS outcomes in Australia
• Effective national action requires major national stakeholders, including all governments, to be committed to coordinated, consistent and cooperative approaches to OHS improvement, and
• Evaluation of prevention initiatives and the sharing of solutions and evidence of what works among OHS stakeholders

 

• A comprehensive and systematic approach to OHS risk management
• Responsibility to eliminate or control risk. Whether that responsibility be with managment, supplier, designer, or manufacturer
• Cooperation and commitment of all workplace parties.  All workplace parties must accept responsibility for identifying OHS issues and initiating prevention action
• Workplace parties to be appropriately skilled in OHS so that they can participate effectively in consultations and in the identifying and implementing of OHS improvements
• Governments in their capacity as major employers, policy makers, regulators and procurers, have considerable influence over the achievement of better OHS outcomes in Australia
• Effective national action requires major national stakeholders, including all governments, to be committed to coordinated, consistent and cooperative approaches to OHS improvement, and
• Evaluation of prevention initiatives and the sharing of solutions and evidence of what works among OHS stakeholders

 

• A comprehensive and systematic approach to OHS risk management
• Responsibility to eliminate or control risk. Whether that responsibility be with managment, supplier, designer, or manufacturer
• Cooperation and commitment of all workplace parties.  All workplace parties must accept responsibility for identifying OHS issues and initiating prevention action
• Workplace parties to be appropriately skilled in OHS so that they can participate effectively in consultations and in the identifying and implementing of OHS improvements
• Governments in their capacity as major employers, policy makers, regulators and procurers, have considerable influence over the achievement of better OHS outcomes in Australia
• Effective national action requires major national stakeholders, including all governments, to be committed to coordinated, consistent and cooperative approaches to OHS improvement, and
• Evaluation of prevention initiatives and the sharing of solutions and evidence of what works among OHS stakeholders