Occupational Health and Safety

In line with section 74 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991, IBA consulted employees to develop its health and safety management arrangements to include cooperative measures to promote health and safety at work, consultation and review processes, dispute resolution, risk management and training, to meet the September 2008 legislative deadline. The Health and Safety Committee met seven times during the year. It finalised the first series of annual workplace hazard inspections, reviewed policies on first aid, fitness for duty and rehabilitation, and audited compliance with IBA’s policies on working alone and in remote areas. Safe Work Week and Walk to Work Day were supported, and the Global Corporate Challenge 2008 included eight IBA-sponsored teams (56 employees), with 79 per cent of participants reporting an increase in energy, 83 per cent reporting an increase in fitness and 75 per cent reporting a weight loss. Twenty incident or hazard reports were submitted during 2008–09 with two resulting in Comcare claims.

Workers compensation

IBA’s 2008–09 workers compensation premium for 2008–09 was set at 0.67 per cent of salary and wages and was reduced to 0.62 per cent as a result of IBA’s performance in claims management (0.36 per cent in 2007–08, reduced from the original premium of 0.42 per cent). The Australian Public Service average was 1.36 per cent (1.55 per cent in 2007–08).

Comcare investigations

No investigations relating to IBA were carried out by Comcare in 2008–09.

Improvement notices

No provisional improvement notices were issued to IBA during 2008–09.