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Safety AdvisorHume City Council · Broadmeadows, VIC, au
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Safety Advisor

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-01 Broadmeadows, VIC, au Full-time Hybrid Government Defence
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$6,250–A$8,333/mo

About the Company

Hume City Council is one of Australia's fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. The Council puts the customer and its community at the centre of all that it does, ensuring its services are efficient and accessible. The Council's Safety Team is progressing through the second year of a four-year safety maturity plan and implementing a refreshed safety framework focused on stronger risk ownership, meaningful consultation, proactive support and sustainable safety improvements.

Responsibilities

  • ● Provide practical, responsive safety advice and support to leaders, employees, contractors and work groups across Council.
  • ● Build trusted relationships and spend time in Council workplaces to understand how work is performed and whether safety controls are effective in practice.
  • ● Support leaders with incident response, investigations and corrective actions, helping business areas build the capability to manage routine safety matters.
  • ● Facilitate risk assessments and support the development of practical safe work procedures and other safety documentation in consultation with the people who perform the work.
  • ● Work alongside Safety Business Partners to translate broader safety priorities into practical actions and embed sustainable improvements in operational areas.
  • ● Support the implementation and verification of critical controls identified through Council's Safety Risk Register.
  • ● Provide advice across a range of physical and psychological health and safety risks, including occupational violence and aggression, hazardous manual handling, mobile plant, traffic management, high-risk work, hazardous substances and contractor safety.
  • ● Develop and deliver practical training and safety information, participate in workplace inspections and consultation, and use incident, hazard and assurance information to identify opportunities for improvement.

Requirements

  • ● Demonstrated experience providing practical safety advice, supporting incident investigations and facilitating risk assessments in a complex or operational environment.
  • ● Sound knowledge of occupational health and safety legislation, contemporary risk management and safety management systems, with the ability to translate technical requirements into practical solutions.
  • ● Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage frontline employees, leaders, Health and Safety Representatives and other stakeholders.
  • ● Ability to work collaboratively with Safety Business Partners and operational areas to implement and embed sustainable safety improvements.
  • ● Sound judgement, curiosity and practical problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities and recognise when an issue requires escalation.
  • ● A qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, risk, allied health, human factors, psychology or a related discipline.

Benefits

  • ● 99,526 to 107,565 per annum plus superannuation, in accordance with experience and qualification.