Work health, safety and return to work programs

Program name	Performance
Injury and Workers Compensation Management	Effective strategies have been implemented to minimise the financial impact of work injured employees through early injury management intervention, psychosocial hazard awareness, and collaborative claims management. The Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) has consistently maintained a low rate of significant injury, as benchmarked against the South Australian public sector. DPC’s Work Health Safety & Injury Management (WHS&IM) performance measures align with government WHS&IM Performance Measures and have been achieved.
Wellbeing and Engagement	A revised wellbeing program has been developed, based on the concept of the four foundational pillars of wellbeing: physical wellbeing, financial wellbeing, psychological wellbeing and social connection. This has included a complete refresh of the Wellbeing intranet site. In-person wellbeing experiences continued including Influenza vaccinations, skin cancer checks and the popular one-stop health station. DPC has two Employee Assistance Program providers, and both have a wide range of online resources available to workers and their families in addition to a variety of delivery methods for counselling services.

Program name

Performance

Injury and Workers Compensation Management

Effective strategies have been implemented to minimise the financial impact of work injured employees through early injury management intervention, psychosocial hazard awareness, and collaborative claims management.

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) has consistently maintained a low rate of significant injury, as benchmarked against the South Australian public sector.

DPC’s Work Health Safety & Injury Management (WHS&IM) performance measures align with government WHS&IM Performance Measures and have been achieved.

Wellbeing and Engagement

A revised wellbeing program has been developed, based on the concept of the four foundational pillars of wellbeing: physical wellbeing, financial wellbeing, psychological wellbeing and social connection. This has included a complete refresh of the Wellbeing intranet site.

In-person wellbeing experiences continued including Influenza vaccinations, skin cancer checks and the popular one-stop health station.

DPC has two Employee Assistance Program providers, and both have a wide range of online resources available to workers and their families in addition to a variety of delivery methods for counselling services.

Workplace injury claims	Current year 2024-25	Past year 2023-24	% Change (+ / -)
Total new workplace injury claims	4	1	+300%
Fatalities	0	0	0%
Seriously injured workers*	0	1	-100%
Significant injuries (where lost time exceeds a working week, expressed as frequency rate per 1000 FTE)	2	1	+100%

*number of claimants assessed during the reporting period as having a whole person impairment meeting the relevant threshold under the Return to Work Act 2014 (Part 2 Division 5)

Work health and safety regulations	Current year 2024-25	Past year 2023-24	% Change (+ / -)
Number of notifiable incidents (Work Health and Safety Act 2012, Part 3)	1	2	-100%
Number of provisional improvement, improvement and prohibition notices (Work Health and Safety Act 2012 Sections 90, 191 and 195)	2	2	0%

Return to work costs**	Current year 2024-25	Past year 2023-24	% Change (+ / -)
Total gross workers compensation expenditure ($)	$172,269.32	**$610,132.14	-72%
Income support payments – gross ($)	$37,351.72	$35,657.73	+4.57%

**before third party recovery

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

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