As the Principal Inspector you will work autonomously within the Psychosocial Response Unit in the Licensing and Regulatory Interventions directorate to work with industry to improve health and safety in Queensland workplaces. This position contributes to the recommendations from the Best Practice Review of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

As the Principal Inspector you will work autonomously within the Psychosocial Response Unit in the Licensing and Regulatory Interventions directorate to work with industry to improve health and safety in Queensland workplaces. This position contributes to the recommendations from the Best Practice Review of Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

Key responsibilities include:
• Utilise the powers appointed to inspectors according to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (the Act) to assist the government in meeting the objectives of the Act.
• Participate in state-wide psychosocial compliance campaigns such as safety blitzes and industry audits.
• Participate in psychosocial workplace assessments in order to determine the degree of risk existing at a workplace and compliance to workplace health and safety standards.
• Facilitate targeted assessment programs which monitor and assess compliance with workplace health and safety legislation and provide reports on team outcomes.
• Utilise departmental and regional protocols, processes and systems to prioritise complaints, incidents and other work.
• Undertake work as allocated such as investigations, complaints and assessments to inspectors in an equitable manner within a team environment to achieve targets within set timeframes.
• Produce reports and conduct reviews of technical information arising out of serious workplace incidents.
• Participate in the professional development of inspectors in a team environment by adopting a mentoring and coaching role in their work activities, providing guidance and performance management as required.
• Provide operational and specialist technical direction, support and advice to local staff in accordance with procedures, objectives and performance standards adopted by the department, and become personally involved in the more difficult or potentially contentious cases/issues.
• Liaise with local stakeholders in industry, commerce, government, education, training and the wider community to identify on-going and emerging needs and issues and provide advice to the Operations Manager and the Director on these matters.
• Implement departmental procedures and policies with respect to human resource management, in particular, equal employment opportunity, performance planning and review and workplace health and safety and,
• Actively participate in the promotion of a discrimination free workplace culture that values equity and diversity.

Our workforce needs to be agile to respond quickly to new and emerging priorities.

You may be required to undertake alternative duties or work in alternative locations on a temporary or permanent basis to support service delivery.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.