The ARBV employed 13 staff (10.8 full time equivalent) on 30 June 2025, compared to 18 staff (12.4 full time equivalent) on 30 June 2024. Appendix 1 provides further details about the ARBV’s employment levels in June 2024 and June 2025.
Employees have been correctly classified in workforce data collections. All employees, except executive officers, are covered by the ARBV Enterprise Agreement.
Employment and conduct principles
The ARBV Enterprise Agreement 2024 is linked to the Victorian Public Service (VPS) Enterprise Agreement 2024 through a nexus agreement. As such, it is closely tied to the VPS agreement and adopts many of its provisions. The ARBV largely aligns its employee relations practices with the VPS, taking account of relevant policies, procedures, and values that reflect public sector employment principles. Employment decisions at the ARBV, including recruitment, probationary periods, and performance assessments, are consistent with these principles.
Occupational Health & Safety
The ARBV is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment which secures the health, safety and welfare of all employees, contractors and other visitors. The ARBV believes that a well-managed program which focuses on both physical and psychological health and wellbeing is an integral part of good management practice.
The ARBV is committed to the principles of health, safety and employee welfare protections set out in relevant Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) laws and the ARBV Enterprise Agreement 2024 and seeks to ensure employees work in an environment which is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to physical health and psychosocial wellbeing.
The ARBV’s target for 2024-2025 was for zero OHS incidents leading to claims which was achieved. No incidents, hazards or near misses or lost time were reported during the 2024-25 year.
The Occupational Health and Safety policy was reviewed this year and amended to provide more clarity on determining ‘what is reasonably practicable’ and to better reflect that supporting psychosocial wellbeing and eliminating hazards has the same importance as addressing physical risks in the workplace.
The ARBV offered various OHS-related activities to employees this year, which aimed to mitigate the risks associated with health, safety and wellbeing. These included:
- an influenza vaccination program
- an employee assistance program
- a focus on monitoring ongoing staff health and wellbeing.
The ARBV’s Workcover premium rate at the completion of 2024-2025 was 0.97%. This was below the applicable State Government Administration industry classification rate of 1.0240%. ARBV’s performance rating of 0.97 was 2.11% better than the industry average.
Workforce Inclusion
The ARBV strives to provide an inclusive working environment to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel respected, valued, and empowered to contribute their best. Due to the ARBV’s size the ARBV does not have formal plans or strategies in place, for example Gender Equality Action Plan for 2022–25 or an Aboriginal Employment Plan 2020–26 or targets for gender diverse staff, as adopted by larger public sector organisations.
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