Employees OHS Policy

Policy Objectives

DFP Recruitment Services supports a safe and healthy workplace for all workers within our control, whether they are internal employees, on-hired employees, contractors or volunteers.

DFP recognises its moral and legal responsibilities to secure and promote the health, safety and welfare of people at work and to ensure their place of work is protected against risks to health and safety.

DFP understands that it has a special responsibility to maintain a safe and healthy working environment for our on-hired employees because of the limitations upon our effective control of risks within client workplaces.

This policy, in conjunction with the DFP Recruitment OHS Issue Resolution Procedure (On-Hired Employment) has been created to facilitate the achievement of such a safe work environment.

Responsibilities

Our Responsibility as an Employer of On-Hired Employees

  • To work with our clients and employees to provide a work environment that is safe and without risk to health for all workers.

Insofar as it is practicable, it is the responsibility of DFP Recruitment to:

  • Provide and maintain a healthy and safe working environment with appropriate tools, equipment, systems, hours of work and appropriate breaks
  • Gain client's agreement to provide a safe and healthy workplace for all on-hired employees and contractors
  • Engage and employ workers capable of effectively and safely carrying out their duties
  • Provide information, training and instruction to workers to ensure safe working practices
  • At DFP Recruitment we expect our clients, their employees, their contractors, their visitors and their representatives to act in a manner that is consistent with this policy and applicable occupational health and safety legislation.
  • To work with DFP Recruitment to provide a work environment that is safe and without risk to health and resolve safety issues quickly, including but not limited to doing the following: 
    • Provide and maintain a healthy and safe working environment, with appropriate task specific training, tools, equipment, systems, hours of work and appropriate breaks
    • Induct new employees in the client’s work practices, processes and safety procedures,
    • Obtain our authority prior to requesting or directing our on-hired employees or contractors to perform new work or work in a new area or location,
    • Allow our workers to raise and report safety issues without fear of victimisation, and
    • Allow nominated DFP Recruitment representatives (with prior arrangement) to inspect and monitor all relevant workplaces to assess OH&S factors.

Our Client’s Responsibility as a Host of On-Hired Employees

On-Hired Employee Responsibility

As safety at work is both an individual and shared responsibility, it is the responsibility of all employees, on-hired or otherwise, to:

  • Ensure their jobs are performed safely, without risk to themselves or their colleagues
  • Comply with the security and safe work practices and emergency procedures of the client while on assignment as an on-hired employee of DFP Recruitment
  • Attend and participate in any training sessions provided
  • Report any workplace injuries, incidents, hazards or other health and safety concerns immediately to their consultant when they occur
  • Participate in rehabilitation and return to work programs after a work related injury or illness
  • Ensure that the spread of hours worked and meal or other breaks taken fall within safety guidelines.

DFP Recruitment’s Attitude to OH&S

As an employment and recruitment service provider DFP Recruitment understands the importance of maintaining workplaces and recruitment practices that offer the highest possible standard of health and safety.  Our primary objective is to ensure our internal employees, on-hired employees, contractors and visitors are safe from injury and risks to health whilst at work.  We are committed to working with our clients and other key stakeholders to achieve our objectives.

DFP Recruitment, clients of DFP Recruitment and all of our on-hired employees are to understand that safety is a top priority. 

DFP Recruitment will not supply on-hired workers to a client where either a work site inspection has been denied or where a risk assessment indicates safety concerns.

Raising and Resolving Safety Issues

DFP Recruitment on-hired employees are encouraged to use the DFP Recruitment OHS Issue Resolution Procedure (On-Hired Employment) to raise and resolve issues in the workplace relating to safety and health.

In some circumstances it will be necessary for DFP Recruitment to separately or simultaneously rely upon any suitable issue resolution procedure of a client.  This is most likely to occur in circumstances where the safety issue raised is within the principal control of the client.

Robert van Stokrom
Chief Executive Officer