2019-02-12 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                       12 FEBRUARY 2019


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                          RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                         CURRENT PRIORITIES                             THE NEXT QUARTER
Supervisor Development Program                Following on from the success of          Participants are preparing to start          Monitoring feedback from
                                                last year’s program, 25 participants        the program.                                   participants to ensure the program is
                                                will complete the 5-day program that                                                       relevant to their needs and the
                                                will run over 5 months and                                                                 needs of Council.
                                                commence in February.
Work health and safety audit                  The WHS audit made 19                     Completion of outstanding                    Continual improvement of the WHS
                                                recommendations requiring 26                rectification action plans (RAPS).             system and Safety Awareness.
                                                actions. All of these actions have          requiring weight certification on            The 2018-2020 WHS Management
                                                now been completed.                         racking at the Pomona and                      Plan is being delivered along with a
                                              Noosa hosted a HR and WHS                   Noosaville depots. When these are              comprehensive WHS training
                                                network event in November where it          completed Council would have                   program including:
                                                was able to provide other councils          caught up and closed out all overdue           - Manual Handling Training and
                                                with a breakdown of WHS changes             RAPS.                                             jobspecific hazard management;
                                                and improvements completed as                                                              - Driver awareness training for staff
                                                part of the WHS improvement plan.                                                             that drive Council vehicles;
                                                                                                                                           - First aid training; and
                                                                                                                                           - Risk awareness training.
People and Culture Service Review             Consultant engaged to complete this       Service Review process is in its final       Service Review due for completion
                                                Service Review.                             stages.                                        February 2019.
Council’s Code of Conduct Review              Face to face training has been          A short summary code of conduct is             Development of an online training
                                                delivered to all staff ensuring they      available online so staff can make               course so all new staff can complete
                                                know their obligations and                easy reference to key requirements.              Code of Conduct training and
                                                responsibilities under the code.                                                           refresher training can be done
                                                                                                                                           easily.
Councils Drug and Alcohol Policy and          The Executive Team endorsed the           Training for Managers and                    Random Testing will begin ensuring
Procedure                                       Drug and Alcohol Policy and                 Supervisors is being delivered now             a safe work environment.
                                                procedure after a consultative              with all staff receiving training prior
                                                process with Unions and staff.              to testing starting in the New Year.

Business as Usual activities                  21 positions were advertised this          Continued provision of a high level          Continued provision of a high level
Support the organisation with payroll,          quarter compared to 28 in the               of service and systems                         of service.
work health and safety, recruitment, on-        previous quarter. 8 appointments            enhancements.                                Complete P&C Service level
boarding and workplace relations.               were from internal applicants while                                                        catalogue.
                                                the remaining 13 appointments were
                                                from external applicants.




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