ABOUT

Workplace Health and Safety

Advisory Committee

• Retailers face strategic, operational and compliance obligations in the sphere of workplace health and safety.
• As a directly consumer-facing industry, retailers face challenges to ensure staff as well as customer wellbeing.
• The ARA’s WHS Advisory Committee committee ensures retailers remain at the cutting edge of compliance requirements and remain abreast of emerging trends and initiatives in this area.
• In the post-Covid world, the committee will continue to provide retail specific input to regulators both Federal and State.

WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHARTER

Achievements

• Representation at Safe Work NSW and WorkSafe Victoria
• Regulatory engagement ; providing policy feedback to regulators.
• Playing a key role in facilitating a safe retail re-opening
• Contributing to the development of state and federal WHS guidelines
• Industry case law reviews
• Developing ARA member communications on current issues

Key Recent Issues

• Update from Worksafe Victoria, Safe Work NSW
• COVID-Safe reopening of retail premises
• Managing team expectations and customers
• Key triggers for customer aggression

For more information, please contact the secretariat for this committee:
Rosemary Jacob committees@retail.org.au