Paxus is committed to ensuring our contractors have a safe working environment utilising safe work practices. We will work with both our contractors and our clients to achieve this goal.
Paxus recognises it's legal and moral obligations to take all reasonable precautions to provide and maintain, as far as practicable, an environment that is safe and without risk to the health of its contractors.
In realising its commitment, Paxus will comply with all relevant occupational health and safety legislation and aim for continuous improvement in its performance and standards in occupational health and safety management.
To view Paxus' Health and Safety Policy, click here .
As a Paxus Contractor, you have a legal responsibility to look after your own health and safety and the safety of those who may be affected by your acts or omissions. We integrate wherever possible with our client's OH&S policies and procedures but we ask you to report all accidents and hazards to both your supervisor and Paxus.
Paxus' commitment to our contractors Health and Safety includes:
- Conducting Workplace Reviews of our client sites to ensure safe systems of work and safe work practices to provide our contractors a safe working environment
- Conducting an OH&S Induction for all contractors
- Providing a range of ergonomic assessments, tools and exercises for people who work at computers for long periods of time.
- Ensuring that all work related accidents/incidents and near misses are reported using a computerised reporting database to not only comply with health and safety legislation, but to provide a method for early intervention, accident investigation and corrective action.
- Paxus will provide every practical assistance to enable any contractor who is injured whilst at work to remain at work or alternatively return to work at the earliest opportunity.
Workplace Review of Client Sites
Periodically, Paxus will review the OH&S policies and processes associated with our client sites. The review will identify: - Any specific hazards within the work environment
- The client's legal compliance with OH&S
- Client specific work practices and procedures, and
- What training and induction is provided for contractors to cover
- Emergency procedures
- Hazardous Substances
- First Aid
- Reporting of Accidents / Incidents and Near Misses
Information gained through reviews at client sites will be used by Paxus Account Managers to conduct Contractor OH&S Inductions.
Click here for a copy of the checklist that may be used to conduct a client audit.
Contractor Health and Safety Induction
Upon acceptance of a contract, and prior to starting as a contractor on a client site, a Paxus account manager will meet with the contractor. The induction covers Paxus work practices as well as ensuring that the contractor understands their OH&S responsibilities.
This Important OHS Information arms the contractor with the skills and knowledge to perform tasks safely and ensures that contractors are appropriately inducted into client sites.
For whatever reason, if an OH&S induction does not occur on the client site, the Paxus contractor can use this OHS Self Evaluation Checklist to perform a self-evaluation of their work environment on the client site.
Paxus has also developed a number of tools to identify potential hazards and provide the contractor with the best possible information on health and safety in IT.
Hints & Tips for working with IT
Guidelines and checklists to help contractors working in IT
Accidents / Incidents
Paxus will record and monitor accidents/incidents and near misses.
Contractors must ensure that all workplace accidents and illnesses that may result in lost time or a change in duties are reported immediately to their Paxus account manager who will record the details in our system. This OHS Accident / Incident Report Form can be used to record details and faxed to your local office.
Everyone has a duty of care to maintain the health and safety of those with whom they work. If you are present at the time an accident /incident occurs you should:
- Make sure any injured person is properly cared for first;
- Make the work place safe, without disturbing the scene, and without endangering yourself;
- Notify your supervisor and Paxus account manager that an accident /incident has taken place.
Contractor Return to Work Policy
Paxus is committed to the prevention of occupational injury and illness by providing a safe and healthy work environment for all Paxus contractors (Company, PAYG & Direct). In the event of a work-related injury or illness, Paxus is committed to supporting our contractors desire to return to the workplace and will negotiate possibilities with the end client on behalf of the contractor to everyone's mutual benefit. However, as you are self-employed, you need to manage your own return to work. If you are not fit to work at the client site then there is no obligation on our part, or our client's part, to accommodate you.
To review Paxus' Return to Work Policy for Contractors, click here.
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