Safe and Caring “Safe and Caring” is one of our fundamental values – we actively promote working safely because we deeply care; we are taking responsibility for protecting our people, our community and the environment. Because we work in a high-risk environment, if its not safe, we don’t do it. Our expectation is that every Western Power employee and contractor has the right to be safe and feel safe when participating in Western Power work. This aspiration is underpinned by an ongoing and unwavering commitment to systems simplification and improvement, the strategies and objectives targeted for the next year will assist in managing our critical risks. Insights and learning from incidents will enable us to improve how we support our workforce to go home safe, well and healthy every day. By embedding values-led leadership and a robust safety management system, we are ensuring Critical Risk Management becomes an integral part of the way we work – so that all our workers live, breathe, and advocate for the success of our fatality Continued from the previous year, we continue to focus and strengthen on maturing our Critical Risk Management program by enhancing the risk management toolkit available to the workforce, psychosocial risk is still front of mind as we build on the foundational elements of this program. In October 2024 Critical Risk Management was our renewed approach to fatality prevention – officially going live as we evolved from the Golden Safety Rules. prevention program. Maturing Safety
This evolution of CRM allows us to manage our critical risks and actively seek opportunities for improvement every day. We also commissioned the People at Work psychological risk assessment survey to assist the business to identify, assess and control risks with a gap analysis exercise, and an opportunity to identify areas of improvement comparing us to industry standards. We continue to tailor our health and wellbeing program to meet the needs of our employees, one recent success was the free flu vaccination program which was utilised by nearly 30 per cent of Western Power employees. In addition, it has been recognised that a greater level of mental health support should be available to those in need. As part of improving our mental health strategy we ran a number of workshops tailored to our people including psychosocial risk identification and mitigation, mental health awareness, how to support your colleagues and preventing burnout. Western Power now has 40 mental health first aiders to guide our employees to appropriate services to support them. Other health and wellbeing programs continue to be promoted across Western Power like R U OK? Day, nutrition workshops, mindfulness and resilience seminars, heat illness and skin cancer awareness. Western Power continues to focus on reducing the highest consequence events whilst equally managing the high frequency events, maintaining a safe and healthy workforce and enabling our leaders to have and drive leader-led safety behaviours.
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Western Power Annual Report 2025
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