​Your local government has many different functions and work roles, all of which play an important part in keeping your local government running effectively.

A job dictionary documents the physical demands of all duties within a particular work role. Each of these duties is broken down to postural (such as height of bending, reaching) and manual handling (such as lifting, push, pulling, walking) demands, including the frequency in which these demands occur. They are used to highlight a role's inherent physical risk exposure.

A job dictionary for a parks and gardens general hand, for example, may include duties like mowing, weeding, planting, spraying and operating machinery. These duties would then be broken down into their physical demands, such as the following for 'spraying':

• Constant standing/walking, potentially on uneven ground
• Constant carrying of 5-10kg knapsack
• Frequent repetitive use of left arm to operate pump, etc.
  

Job dictionaries are an important part of an effective injury prevention and management program, and are most frequently used to:

• Assist in the prevention of injuries by identifying key manual task risks
• Develop targeted pre-employment medical examinations
• Formulate a graduated return to work program for injured workers
• Reduce the requirement for individual worksite assessments associated with workers compensation claims
• Develop appropriate treatment programs for injured workers

LGIS can provide job dictionary assessments for your workforce. 

Templates and resources

LGIS has developed a range of Job Dictionary templates and resources for members.

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You can find the Job Dictionaries under Risk Management > Health & Wellbeing Program > Injury Prevention > Job Dictionaries.