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SafeWork SA Grants
In reply to Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (22 July 2015). (Estimates Committee A)
The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide): I have been provided the following advice:
Of the $1,996,607 committed to fund grants in 2014-15:
nine union or union-based organisations received $1,038,300;
one employer organisation received $44,300;
four community organisations received $510,000; and
four educational institutions received $404,007.
Union or union-based
| SA Unions—Young Workers Legal Service | $80,000 | This service assists young workers under the age of 30 with employment relations issues, such as unfair dismissal, underpayment of wages, bullying and harassment. Qualified staff will assist young workers to resolve disputes at the workplace through the legal process if required. |
| Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union | $102,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership ProgramThe program helps to raise employee awareness of work health and safety (WHS) through the improvement of training, resources and information available to workers, and to encourage participative programs to raise skill levels and ensure constructive involvement in WHS arrangements. |
| National Union of Workers | $155,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Australian Services Union SA & NT Branch | $157,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union | $135,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| SA Unions | $35,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Independent Education Union of South Australia | $102,300 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Australian Workers Union SA Branch | $121,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association SA Branch | $151,000 | Health and Safety Workplace Partnership Program |
| Total | $1,038,300 |
Employer-based
| Wildcatch Fisheries South Australia | $44,300 | Innovative Practice GrantFunding to develop eight drug and alcohol policies for different sectors by engaging all relevant sector bodies, and all key stakeholder groups across all South Australian regions in the grains, livestock, dairy, poultry, pork, horticulture, wine and seafood sectors. The policies are to be widely distributed to all enterprises and secure a commitment to effectively manage drug and alcohol issues within primary industry workplaces in line with state legislation. |
| Total | $44,300 |
Community
| South Australian Council of Social Service | $50,000 | Innovative Practice GrantThe Healthy Minds, Healthy Workers project provides direct support to six workplaces in the community sector to pilot an organisation-wide approach to developing mentally healthy and resilient workplaces. |
| Asbestos Diseases Society of South Australia | $25,000 + $5,000 in-kind support | The funding is used to inform students of the dangers of asbestos in their homes and workplaces through the delivery of workshops at schools in South Australia. |
| Asbestos Victims Association | $25,000 + $5,000 in-kind support | The funding is used to promote awareness of asbestos in the community, in particular during home renovations. Promotional activities are also conducted in regional South Australia. |
| Working Women's Centre SA Incorporated | $410,000 | The funding provides information, advisory and support services to vulnerable women workers in South Australia. The Working Women's Centre also delivers education and training sessions on work health and safety and industrial relations matters to women with reference to state and relevant commonwealth legislation. |
| Total | $510,000 |
Educational institutions
| University of South Australia—two grants | $66,324 | WHS Commissioned Research GrantCoping with Shiftwork: Understanding and Communicating Resilience Strategies for Performance, Safety and Health is a project which examines individual and team strategies for coping with shiftwork to assist in improving worker health and wellbeing. |
| $124,967 | WHS Commissioned Research GrantDesigned with care: Improving job design in the SA Aged Care Industry is a project which works with an industry partner to co-design and pilot practical small-scale workplace interventions that improve psychosocial working conditions and reduce the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. | |
| University of Adelaide | $113,740 | WHS Commissioned Research GrantReducing MSD risk in the aged care sector using multi-factorial evidence-based interventions aims to implement an evidence-based risk management toolkit for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, customise it for use by non-expert workplace users in aged-care facilities, and evaluate its effectiveness. |
| Central Queensland University (Adelaide campus) | $98,976 | WHS Commissioned Research GrantThe YAWN program: developing and evaluating a web- and app-based fatigue intervention for young employees evaluates a sample of young workers to study the effects of fatigue. The participants access an educational website with information about sleep and fatigue, and across four weeks record details of their sleep and work hours and receive personal advice regarding their levels of fatigue, how it affects them and what to do about it. |
| Total | $404,007 |