2023 LGAQ ANNUAL CONFERENCE MOTIONS · Attachment 4 - MOTION D - Cr Finzel- Psychosocial Risk Reduction Training

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                            with the aim of fostering culturally safe
                            workplaces and addressing the
                            reasonable risks of psychosocial harms in
                            the 15 Local Councils participating in the
                            Pilot.
                            Progressing from Pilot to a State wide
                            capacity across 77 Local Government
                            Councils with State Funded Resources
                            into the future to prioritise the proactive
                            management of psychosocial risks and
                            hazards including links to vicarious
                            trauma and employee burnout in Local
                            Council workplaces.
Background                  LGAQ has capacity to co-ordinate a Pilot
(required) 350 word limit   program with the provision by way of
                            resourcing from the State Government and
                            creating the opportunity to collect data
                            and establish key findings as supported
                            evidence.
                            To upscale the Pilot Program to a State
                            Wide initiative in the future.
                            Councils as duty holders are obligated to
                            ensure that adequate information, training
                            and instruction is provided to workers
                            about the nature of these psychosocial
                            risks and control measures.
                            Promoting a culture of reporting
                            psychosocial hazards.
                            Facilitating Managers alongside workers
                            to model these behaviours requires
                            education and training including but not
                            limited to Trauma Informed Care given
                            Council workers are increasingly on the
                            front line responding to unprecedented
                            natural disasters in the past five years.
                            The associated costs back to Government,
                            private sectors and communities when it
                            comes to reasonably ensuring the mental
                            health and wellbeing of our people is
                            borne by us all.
                            Improving health outcomes through
                            education and prevention with a focus on
                            early intervention with contributions made
                            by a wide range of partners to include all
                            levels of government in addressing the
                            health of women and girls is identified in
                            the principle objectives and actions of



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