Effective 7 September 2023
Purpose
The Board People and Safety Committee (BPSC) assists the Board to fulfil its governance responsibilities in relation to people, health and safety strategies, obligations, performance and culture.
Specific responsibilities
In fulfilling its purpose, the Committee will:
1. People
- Review the development and implementation of people strategies to attract, retain and develop people required by CSIRO to maintain and enhance its capabilities and capacity.
- Review and make recommendations to the Board in relation to principles underpinning the CSIRO Enterprise Agreement including broad strategic issues and options.
- Ensure the Organisation has competitive employment conditions and remuneration structure.
- Approve the CSIRO Code of Conduct and CSIRO values and review implementation of strategies to embed them in CSIRO's practices and processes.
- Continue to build a one CSIRO culture of people first, mutual trust, collaborative networks, inclusion and participation, agility and experimentation, and transparency and accountability.
2. Health and safety
- Review the development and implementation, and monitor performance, of CSIRO's Health & Safety strategy and related initiatives.
- Ensure that the organisation has appropriate and effective health and safety systems, processes and procedures in place including processes for receiving and considering information regarding incidents, hazards and risks and responding in a timely way to that information.
- Monitor HSE performance through leading and lagging indicators.
- Receive and review on behalf of the Board serious incidents reports and investigations including high potential near miss incidents.
3. Remuneration and performance
- Make recommendations to the Board on the remuneration and performance of the Chief Executive including possible key result areas and performance targets.
- Assess the annual enterprise performance and recommend to the Board a performance score for the purpose of determining the overall Chief Executive annual performance and performance bonus.
- Review with the Chief Executive proposed decisions with respect of the remuneration and performance assessment of Executive Team members and ratify these recommendations if thought appropriate.
- Oversee the executive remuneration policy and framework of CSIRO including the senior executive banding structure (focus on positions, not individuals) with reference to the market.
- Review and provide advice on remuneration benchmarking to ensure CSIRO retains and attracts talent.
Membership
The Board appoints the BPSC Chair and members. The Committee comprises at least three members of the Board, including the Chair of the Board. A quorum constitutes a majority of non-executive members of the Board on the Committee.
Meetings
The Committee meets at least four times per year and at such other times as are necessary, with all meetings convened by the Committee Chair. The Corporate Secretary attends and support Committee meetings and, where invited the Executive Director - People, and senior managers of the People function.
Directors who are not Committee Members may attend Meetings.