Employee health, safety and wellbeing

Wesfarmers is focused on team member safety and wellbeing. We maintained our commitment to providing a safe and fulfilling work environment for team members and improvements in safety results were recorded across most businesses.

This year, while Wesfarmers reported 1,974 workers' compensation claims, compared to 1,744 last year, at a Group level, total recordable injury frequency rate (TRIFR) has reduced to 11.0, with improvements recorded across most businesses. The increase in workers' compensation claims was most notably due to higher claims at Bunnings Group, and to a lesser extent, Kmart Group.

The divisions have programs in place for identifying and managing psychosocial risks, which are focused on creating mentally healthy workplaces so our team members can be at their best.

All divisions have established Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) management systems. The systems assist divisions in fulfilling their legislative requirements as well as meeting the requirements of our self-insurance licences. There are resources made available within each of the divisions to manage these systems and provide technical safety support and services to the business. External expertise is sought where required.

The systems cover all team members who work under the division's management control and are audited regularly by independent auditors to meet requirements of our self-insurance licences.

Each OHS system includes processes for:

• the reporting of risks, hazards and incidents as well as risk assessment, incident investigation and subsequent continuous improvement 
• team member participation and consultation.