Kia ora koutou!

I'm a Design Lead at WorkSafe and am leading a project on understanding HSRs in Aotearoa. A lack of a role description has arisen in our findings too. We ran a workshop in Hamilton yesterday, with a mix of HSRs from different industries, and we worked through some activities which helped us flesh one out.

What was really interesting was asking HSRs to list their duties and then theme them into essential to the role, complimentary to the role, and 'other'. HSRs doing 'audit's came up as incredibly common, but we ascertained that they should be involved (to represent workers and almost to 'audit the audit') but not leading them - as this leads to tensions around enforcing compliance and being seen to 'police' H&S. We also heard that some HSRs get told to train others, and we decided as a group that it was the HSR role to 'mentor, but not train'.

Loads of other interesting findings too. Would be wicked to test some of what we're hearing by a few of you? If you're keen - flick me an email alidotwhittonatworksafedotgovtdotnz

Also, interested to read other HSR job descriptions if people are happy to share!

Thanks,

Ali

Thanks both! And thanks to all who've passed it on.