2017-11-07 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                      7 NOVEMBER 2017


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                         RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                        CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
                                               and Risk Reviews.                        Coordinate Councillor Risk                    for adoption.
                                                                                          Workshop for October 2017
Business as Usual activities                      Processed 19 insurance claims,      Finalise Insurance Renewal                  Further formalise team procedures
                                                    4 Administrative Action               Procedure
                                                    Complaints, and 1 Right to          Coordinate Council’s Annual
                                                    Information application               Delegations Review

People and Culture
Negotiating the new Certified Agreement      Unions have agreed to take a draft       Reach agreement on a new Certified          Certification of the Agreement and
                                               agreement to their members for             Agreement with minimum disruption             implementation
                                               consideration. Agreement has been          to operations and while continuing
                                               made on 21 claims to date.                 healthy workplace relations
Developing a 2017- 2020 People and           This was endorsed by the leadership      Implementing and communication              Implementing and communication
Culture Strategy                               team in September after extensive          the strategy to all stakeholders with         the strategy to all stakeholders
                                               stakeholder consultation                   the priorities being workforce
                                                                                          planning and change management
                                                                                          strategies.
Review of work health and safety             Completed review of safe work            Place safe work procedures on               Include approved safe work
documents.                                     procedures.                                intranet for consultation.                    procedures on intranet.
                                                                                        Following consultation amend                Consult with employees,
                                                                                          procedures where required.                    management and the unions on draft
                                                                                        Develop drug and alcohol                      drug and alcohol procedure.
                                                                                          procedure.
Review work health and safety                100% of tasks completed in               Review work health and safety               Provide copies of safety
management plan.                               accordance with monthly action             management plan and associated                management plan and associated
                                               plan.                                      monthly action plan.                          monthly action plan to Leadership
                                                                                                                                        Team for consultation.
                                                                                                                                      Amend documents where
                                                                                                                                        necessary.
                                                                                                                                      Have CEO approve and sign safety
                                                                                                                                        management plan and associated
                                                                                                                                        monthly action plan.
Work health and safety audit.                Completed work health and safety         Address deficiencies found in audit         Continue to address deficiencies
                                               system audit.                              and update audit rectification action         found in audit and update audit
                                             Developed rectification action plan        plan.                                         rectification action plan.
                                               from audit findings.                     Collect evidence for external audit to      Continue to collect evidence for
                                                                                          be conducted in March 2018 by                 external audit to be conducted in
                                                                                          LGW.                                          March 2018 by LGW.

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