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Three Categories of WHS Offences and a Table of NSW Penalty Units (2024)
The NSW WHS Act 2011 has recently been amended. These amendments have included an increase in the penalty rates for WHS breaches. ....
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Hazardous Manual Tasks and Working From Home
Weekly WHS Article 27th July 2023 Do your workers ever have these injuries? “Sprains and strains of muscles,...
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Human Consequences are the Ultimate WHS Penalty
Weekly WHS Article 25th May 2023 Work Health and Safety compliance is not, for most businesses, “penalty-driven” in reality. [1] The...
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WHS "101"
The following points are arguably the most foundational principles of work health and safety. Every person ....
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Every Body Can Suffer from Manual Task Injuries
Weekly WHS Article 22nd June 2022 Manual tasks may contain risks that: cause “sudden damage” to a person’s musculoskeletal system, or...
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How to Handle Hazardous Manual Tasks in Your Workplace
Based on the most recent workers compensation figures from SIRA NSW , manual handling is still the most common cause of workplace injury...
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Manual Handling: Hazardous Manual Tasks - Are They in Your Workplace?
This article was first published in 2018 The good news is that major manual handling injuries in NSW dropped 3%, from 29% in 2015-16 to...
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How to Identify Hazardous Manual Tasks
This article was first published in 2015 Manual handling is the cause of 29% of workplace injuries making it the most common cause of...
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Are There Unavoidable Risks in Your Workplace?
Safe Work Australia released a report called Work Health & Safety Perceptions: Manufacturing Industry in February 2015 that is...
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Manual Handling Training
What is Manual Handling? Manual handling includes any task that requires a person to lift, lower, push, pull, carry or otherwise move,...