Dr Peter Prasad, Head of WHS, Qantas
WHS is traditionally managed against regulatory compliance, with safety performance measured through recordable injury metrics – a reductionist model.
Our experience of managing safety differently through a pandemic, and the emergence of psychosocial safety requirements, has challenged us to rethink our WHS model. In building a refined WHS model, Safety is determined as an emergent property of organisation, and both complements and competes with the additional emergent organisational properties of Work and Health for constrained resources.
Safe and resilient organisations need to be able to recognise threats to Work, Health and/or Safety and pivot resources in the moment.
Global Assurance of an organisation’s performance in this regard should provide assurance at all levels of the organisation, from the frontline to the directors, and helps us to build a holistic WHS Ecology.
