Improve Your Business

In today’s competitive business environment, there are plenty of resources available that provide advice or assistance that will enable you to grow your business. ROGER BUCKLEY provides an overview of Government programs.

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY

WorkHealth

WorkHealth supports Victorian workplaces by offering voluntary programs to promote health and well-being in the workplace.

WorkHealth is brought to you by WorkSafe Victoria and provides the opportunity to participate in one of two opportunities:

1. Worker health checks – offering workers a confidential health check which helps them understand their risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. This is FREE if the organisation’s annual remuneration is less than $10 million.
2. Workplace health promotion grants – employers who have offered health checks to the majority of their workers in the past two years can access a grant to expand health and well-being activities to support healthy behaviours in the workplace.

WorkHealth is being rolled out progressively across Victoria on a region by region basis and is currently available around Melbourne and south west and north central Victoria. A network of endorsed service providers deliver the worker health checks in the workplace.

More information is available at www.workhealth.vic.gov.au

Free OHS Consultancies

The CMPA has again entered into an arrangement with WorkSafe to secure a number of free OHS consultancies for extractive industries until the end of June 2010.

These consist of a 3 hour session with an OHS consultant who will develop an action plan for your business to move forward at no cost to you. This information is only provided in summary form to the CMPA or WorkSafe.

Any business with less than 50 employees is encouraged to apply – CMPA Member or not. As this is being funded by the State Government, this is an opportunity not to be missed.To book a session, contact the CMPA Secretariat.

SKILLS AND TRAINING

Skills for Growth – This FREE program provides the business with an independent specialist to work with management and staff to review staff skills, plan for the business’s future and identify training opportunities for the employees. To be eligible, firms need employ less than 200 staff , have been in operation for at least 1 year and to be financially viable.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Enterprise Connect – the program provides business reviews at no financial cost to firms, and then provides matching government assistance of up to $20,000 to engage experts to implement the recommendations from those reviews. To be eligible, firms will need to have an Australian Company Number, turnover of $2 – $100 million and have been trading solvently for at least 3 years.

Further information is available by visiting www.enterpriseconnect.gov.au and clicking on the Mining Technology Innovation Centre tab, by calling the Enterprise Connect Hotline on Ph: 131 791 or contacting Mining Technology Business Adviser Dale Thompson on Ph: 03 9215 2612.

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