2019-08-06 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                6 AUGUST 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                           RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                        THE NEXT QUARTER
Work Health and Safety Audit                   The internal WHS audit has been              The Internal Audit has been             Continual improvement of the
                                                 completed. This audit follows on               completed with a score of 80/100          WHS system and Safety
                                                 from the external audit completed              which shows an improvement as a           Awareness.
                                                 last year which provided Council               result of implementing all of the       The 2018-2020 WHS Management
                                                 with a score of 73/100 and several             recommendations from the                  Plan is being delivered along with
                                                 recommendations for                            previous external Audit.                  a comprehensive WHS training
                                                 improvement.                                                                             program.
2019/2020 Training Budget                      In ensuring that the training                The 2019/20 Training budget             Work with Managers to identify “at
-The People and Culture team took                program was delivered and                      developed in consultation with the        risk” positions in Council where
over administration of the training              Council received the best outcome              Managers and Directors is                 staff critical to future operations
budget in September 2018 and has                 for our budget, the P&C team:                  currently being planned and               are supported to grow and stay
ensured it was used for maximum                   Used appropriate procurement                procurement processes run.                with Council as well as training
benefit to staff and Council.                         processes to bulk purchase                                                          others so succession plans are in
                                                      our first aid and similar training                                                  place.
                                                      which realised significant                                                        This will occur as part of the
                                                      savings                                                                             workforce planning program
                                                  Developed a training Calendar
                                                      which allowed staff to
                                                      nominate for dates and times
                                                      for training, reducing impact on
                                                      operations.

                                                    Reallocated approximately
                                                      $30,000 in savings to further
                                                      training initiatives.

                                                    Ensured that managers were
                                                      continually consulted so that
                                                      their training needs were best
                                                      met with available budget.

Single Touch Payroll Implementation            System went live in February with          Continue to support staff with            Monitoring and review if required
(As part of new Federal requirements,            no implementation issues.                    information on how to set up
Council has to implement a system                                                             MYGOV accounts and the changes
that provides fortnightly pay                                                                 that have occurred as a result of
summaries to the ATO, instead of                                                              single touch payroll
yearly in the form of group certificates)

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