Our priorities
The department demonstrates its priorities and accountability to government and the community through a number of corporate documents including the annual report, service delivery statements and budget highlights.
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Documents specific to industrial relations, electrical safety and workplace health and safety are currently on the former Department of Employment and Industrial Relations website.
Planning and reporting framework
The department’s output structure details how our business and service plans are based on the government’s priorities.
The annual report discusses the department’s performance under nine outputs:
- Court and Tribunal Services
- Human Rights Protection Services
- Policy, Legislation and Legal Services
- Community Justice Services
- Electrical Safety Services
- Private Sector Industrial Relations Services
- Public Sector Industrial and Employee Relations Services
- Administration of the Industrial Court and Commission System
- Workplace Health and Safety Services (including Workers’ Compensation Policy).
Our services are focused on the following strategic goals:
- Equity - ensuring our institutions, laws and services ensure equity and fairness in the justice system and contribute to a safer community.
- Reform - maintaining contemporary, relevant and innovative laws and services that reflect the community’s needs and expectations.
- Performance - managing our performance to deliver better services to Queenslanders.
- A fair and equitable industrial relations framework.
- Safe and healthy work environments.
- Electrically safe homes, workplaces and other environments.
- Fair and equitable public sector wages policy.
The strategic goals are based on the strategic plans of the Department of Justice and Attorney-General and the former Department of Employment and Industrial Relations prior to machinery of government changes in March 2009.
Toward Q2: Tomorrow’s Queensland
In September 2008, the Premier launched Toward Q2: Tomorrow's Queensland. This policy articulates a new vision for the future of Queensland, including five ambitions and 10 targets for Queensland to achieve by 2020. It replaces the government priorities which were the basis for the development of the department’s strategic plan.
Services are aligned to two of the Government’s Toward Q2: Tomorrow’s Queensland Ambitions:
- Fair - Supporting safe and caring communities: the department makes a significant contribution to the 2020 Target: Increase by 50 per cent the proportion of Queenslanders involved in their communities as volunteers. Approximately 85,000 Justices of the Peace (JPs) provide assistance to Queenslanders accessing justice services, including those operating at 127 JPs in the Community sites across the state.
- Healthy - Making Queenslanders Australia’s healthiest people: the department is committed to implementing strategies for healthier workplaces through the initiatives of Workplace Health and Safety Services, and healthier communities through the Magistrates Court’s Queensland Indigenous Alcohol Diversion program and Illicit Drug Court Diversion program.
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