Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
All documents describing, discussing or reviewing any formal management directions
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The release contains four email documents, with Documents 1, 2 and 4 being copies of the same internal workplace health and safety exchange, dated 16 to 17 October 2025, from the People Safety, Support and Wellbeing Branch. A Branch Head issued a formal management direction, effective immediately and described as temporary pending a standard operating procedure, requiring that WHS Officers not contact SES officers about SIRUS incident reports without prior EL2+ authorisation. The stated reasons were complaints from SES officers about WHS advice on incident reports containing sensitive allegations. A WHS Director acknowledged the direction and confirmed it had been actioned. The material contains no environmental, species, site, or EPBC Act content, and no quantified environmental data or scientific advice.
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