Making UNSW safer: Work health and safety course

05 Sep 2019
measuring and reporting

This one-day course run by UNSW Canberra examines the measurement of work health and safety performance. 

Measuring and reporting work health and safety (WHS) performance is a one-day course that will explore how to quantify, interpret and analyse work health and safety (WHS) data through a series of interactive sessions. The course outlines how to organise data and communicate WHS information to different users via management reports, balanced scorecards and external media, such as annual reports and sustainability reports. Correctly measuring and reporting on WHS performance adds value when making meaningful decisions. 

“The best features of this course were the workshop exercises and tailoring the language of the reports to the end-user audience,” said Angela Field, Chief Minister, Treasury & Economic Development.   

The course is presented by Dr Sharron O’Neill, an Associate Professor in the School of Business at UNSW Canberra, who has served as a financial accountant in transport, healthcare and manufacturing organisations. 

Dr O’Neill has advised both government and industry in the measuring and reporting on WHS performance. She is an expert in this field, having published on WHS performance, management accounting, financial accounting, worker entitlements and genetic medicine, and is a member of CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Safety Institute of Australia (SIA). 

Who should attend? 

This course is relevant to anyone who measures, analyses or reports on work health and safety performance data and wishes to improve the quality of the information they present. It is beneficial for those who wish to better understand the quality of information they receive. WHS and HR professionals, communications officers, accountants, business analysts and managers can attend. Also, those who rely on WHS data and seek to improve their understanding of key metrics and the overall quality of the WHS performance. 

To find out more, visit measuring and reporting WHS performance.   

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