Job Satisfaction at Safe Work Australia

My day to day responsibilities include general office administration (such as emails, appropriate filing etc.), helping to develop policy, tracking relevant WHS laws or public health orders relevant to work, project managing work with internal and external stakeholders.

Currently I am in the legal team, and my roles includes, drafting responses to general enquiries, copyright enquiries, drafting FOI responses and decisions, providing legal review and advice to teams within SWA on a range of topics and statutory interpretation. My tasks are generally short-term, with only a few long-term tasks. I have diversity in the tasks I work on.

Collect, compile, analyse and report on workers' compensation statistics and other data using Excel, SAS and Microsoft Power BI.

Monitoring policy and legislative updates received via media monitoring, news articles and IR/WHS decisions, responding to emails, drafting correspondence, reviewing feedback received, undertaking research tasks and drafting factsheets/guidance materials.

As a graduate I may be asked to answer email enquiries we receive from the public, write up briefs and reports, attend meetings with different stakeholders and conduct research.

As a Government Lawyer, I work with my team to provide in-house legal services to the Agency across multiple practice areas. My day-to-day responsibilities vary, but may include reviewing policy materials for legal accuracy, compiling drafting instructions for legislative amendments, responding to copyright requests, and drafting advice for policy teams.