Victorian WorkCover Minister Tim Holding has defended WorkSafe,
despite an ombudsman's report slamming its handling of claims that Police
Association secretary Paul Mullet bullied other union staff.
The damning ombudsman's report tabled in Parliament found Victoria Police
had bounced the bullying claims to WorkSafe and WorkSafe had failed
to properly investigate.
The allegations arose after two police officers used the Whistleblowers
Protection Act to raise concerns about Mr Mullet's actions and other
complaints followed.
The ombudsman found WorkSafe's handling of the complaint was inadequate
and ignored important evidence.
The ombudsman has recommended police and WorkSafe renew their investigations.
Mr Holding concedes there were some short comings in the handling of the
claims and says WorkSafe will adopt the recommendations.
"The ombudsman clearly found that they hadn't acted improperly, it's just that
they hadn't conducted a full and thorough investigation," Mr Holding said.
"He's made some pretty clear recommendations as to how they can sharpen
up their processes and WorkSafe have indicated that they're willing to take
on board those recommendations." Both WorkSafe and Victoria Police have
agreed to the ombudsman's recommendations.
WCV's: How many times have worksafe not investigated properly Mr Holding?
and how can the ombudsman's office believe that worksafe had not acted improperly?
If you ignore important evidence and not do a full and complete investigation
then, you have acted improperly!
The lack of proper and thorough investigations is putting injured workers at
risk. Worksafe do ignore important information on many cases that they assess
and I for one have had this experience personally.
The fact that you admit to worksafe being incompetent and inadequate speaks
for itself, and this case should make you pay attention to the complaints you
receive about worksafe and not ignore them as you are.
What have you done about this?.
1 comment:
SAME OCCURED IN A MAJOR HOSPITAL, BUT THIS TIME EVEN THE VICTORIAN STATE OMBUSDMAN FAILED TO INVESTIGATE EXACTLY WHAT HE COMPLAINED OF IN THIS ARTICLE, AS WELL AS FAILING TO INVESTIGATE WORKSAFE'S NEGLECT OF CORE DUTY. THIS IS ALL VERIFIED ON PUBLIC AND OMBUDSMAN RECORDS, AND THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO PROTECT US ONCE THE OMBUDSMAN NEGLECTS SERIOUS DEADLY ISSUES. MY CASE INVOLVED REPORTING SERIOUS INFECTION CONTROL BREACHES AT A MAJOR HOSPITAL BY MY DEPARTMENT, SO SERIOUS IT KILLS AND INJURES MANY PATIENTS PER YEAR AND IS OHS DANGER TO STAFF, AND AN F.O.I. FOUND WORKSAFE FAILED TO INVESTIGATE THE MOST SERIOUS CONCERNS, THEREFORE THE PRACTICE CONTINUES SO TOO THE HARMS VIA MRSA SUPERBUG DEATHS AND INJURIES IN WHICH AN AUDITOR GENERAL CALLED PREVENTABLE DEATHS. ALL WAS ABLE TO BE EVIDENCED, BUT THEY ALL SHIRKED THE CASE, AND WORKSAFE DELIBERATELY PROTECTED THE HOSPITAL, THAT WAS MADE CLEAR ON DAY ONE, SO WHO CAN YOU TRUST IF YOU CANT TRUST WORKSAFE ? AND WHEN YOU CANT TRUST THE OMBUDSMAN, MORESO BEING CONTRADICTORY TO THE STORY I REPLY TO HEREWITH.
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