Advisory Sessions with Evelyn Pollard, Human Resources, Work Health Safety and Workforce Planning

As a proactive community health measure in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19), a decision has been made, where possible, to switch the face-to-face advisory sessions with other forms of communication including skype, zoom and phone. Your advisor will be in touch to discuss a suitable option. The current $20 fee per session will also be waived until 30 June 2020 to help those facing hardship.

The Southern Business Mentoring Program offers one hour one-on-one business advisory sessions.

Evelyn is available to help your business to develop a strategic response to COVID–19.

Areas Evelyn can cover include:

Human Resource Management / Workplace Relations

• Managing employees and leave entitlements
• Changing or scaling down operations, including however not limited to varying work hours/rosters, redundancies, reducing operations, etc - how to do this in line with Award/Fair Work Act provisions.
• Business shut down – employer obligations
• Providing directions to employees, including fitness for work and self-isolation
• Working from home options or working remotely

Work Health Safety / Employee Wellbeing

• Keeping everyone safe – understanding workplace risks and obligations (employer and employee)
• Monitoring the mental wellbeing of your workforce
• Working from home options from a WHS obligation perspective

Workforce Planning / Business Continuity

• Establishing a workforce recovery strategy/plan addressing areas such as what type and when are positions required, what skills are needed, and what will the process (including timeframes) be to ensure minimal disruption to the business.
• Contingency planning – What are the options if the “right” staff are not available?

When booking an appointment, please state you wish to receive advice regarding COVID-19 strategies for your business, on the booking form under the question 'What would you like to receive advice on?'.

Evelyn Pollard is our Human Resources, Work Health Safety and Workforce Planning advisor.

With an extensive background in human resource management, Evelyn assists businesses to maximise their opportunities to access funding available for new and/or existing staff.

Drawing upon extensive experience in human resource management, work health safety, injury management, customer service, change management and continuous improvement.

Evelyn works closely with businesses to navigate the complex legislative environment that surrounds looking after their people. Evelyn has assisted businesses across many industry sectors including micro-business, engineering, fitness, local and state government, manufacturing, regional businesses, small-medium enterprises, state government and transport.

Please contact Evelyn directly if you would like to book a session outside of the times indicated, on evelyn@epollardconsulting.com.au