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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Work Health Safety and Injury Management</name>
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        <heading>Work Health Safety and Injury Management</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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          <question date="2014-10-14">
            <name>Work Health Safety and Injury Management</name>
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        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001554">In reply to <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI (Unley)</by> (18 July 2014).  (Estimates Committee B)</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="614" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M. RANKINE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
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          <question date="2014-10-14">
            <name>Work Health Safety and Injury Management</name>
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        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001555">
          <by role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development):</by>  I have been advised of the following:</text>
        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001556">In February 2013, the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) made a formal request to WorkCover to extend the formal review of the work health safety and injury management system. The additional levy was applicable for 1 April to 30 September 2013 at a total cost of $9,000.</text>
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        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001557">The extension was requested due to the time and resources required to implement the restructure of the department's health and safety unit. The fees funded the administrative costs of the partnership program between WorkCover and the department. </text>
        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001558">WorkCover no longer audits the public sector. As such, in June 2014 the department's work health safety and injury management systems were audited by Deloitte.</text>
        <text id="201410140f897148a2a0455a80001559">DECD achieved compliance in work health safety and injury management in the recent audit by Deloitte and has an injury frequency rate of 14.6 injuries per million hours worked, which compares favourably to the average rate of 16.5 across the public sector.</text>
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