Program name

Performance

Injury and Workers Compensation Management

  • Strategies have been adopted to minimise the cost impact of work injured employees through early intervention, active case and claims management.
  • DPC has consistently maintained a low rate of significant injury, as benchmarked against the South Australian Public Sector.
  • The department’s WHS performance measures align with government WHS&IM Performance Measures and have been achieved.

Wellbeing and Engagement

  • A comprehensive Wellbeing Program has been delivered, based on the concept of Healthy Body/Healthy Mind. The program also aims to help build resilience and a positive culture with a focus on psychological wellbeing.
  • Due to COVID-19 where possible, wellbeing initiatives were presented in a virtual format to include employees who were working from home.
  • The 2022 Influenza Vaccination Programme saw 51% of DPC employees take up the offer of a voluntary vaccination.
  • DPC has two Employee Assistance Program providers with a wide range of online resources made available to workers and their family in addition to a variety of delivery methods for counselling services.

Deloitte Self-Insurer Audit and Verification System (AVS) results

  • The Department’s WHS&IM system was found to be performing at the maturity level of “Safety Leader” for the domains of Wellbeing and Engagement, and Performance; “Proactive” for the domain of Safety Leadership; and “Calculative” for the domain of Risk Management.

Workplace injury claims

  Current year
2021-22

Past year
2020-21

 % Change
(+ / –)

Total new workplace injury claims

4

3

+25%

Fatalities

0

0

0

Seriously injured workers*

0

0

0

Significant injuries (where lost time exceeds a working week, expressed as frequency rate per 1000 FTE)

1

0

+100%

*number of claimants assessed during the reporting period as having a whole person impairment of 30% or more under the Return to Work Act 2014 (Part 2 Division 5)

Work health and safety regulations

  Current year
2021-22

Past year
2020-21

 % Change
(+ / –)

Number of notifiable incidents (Work Health and Safety Act 2012, Part 3)

0

3

-100%

Number of provisional improvement, improvement and prohibition notices (Work Health and Safety Act 2012 Sections 90, 191 and 195)

0

0

0

Return to work costs**

  Current year
2021-22

Past year
2020-21

 % Change
(+ / –)

Number of notifiable incidents (Work Health and Safety Act 2012, Part 3)

0

3

-100%

Number of provisional improvement, improvement and prohibition notices (Work Health and Safety Act 2012 Sections 90, 191 and 195)

0

0

0

Data for previous years is available at Data.SA DPC Work Health and Safety & Return to Work Performance

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