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Lessons learned from the 2020 Dreamworld case
An outstanding and horrifying example of not carrying out effective risk management was revealed when the 297 pages of the Coroner’s...
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Minimise WHS Risk to Minimise Financial Loss
In your role as a WHS manager you may sometimes need to seek approval for a WHS budget or WHS expenditure that you propose. For example:...
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Maintenance and Review of WHS Risk Controls
If all WHS risks in your workplace have been eliminated or controlled (as per the Hierarchy of Control Measures described in the ...
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How to Minimise WHS Risks in Your Workplace
Minimising WHS risk so far as is reasonably practicable means that the risk is not eliminated but it is reduced to the lowest possible...
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Case study: Determining work groups for WHS consultation
On the 9th of July 2019 the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) delivered its decision on whether an employer had made....
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Changes in the Consultation Code of Practice (2019)
On 30 August 2019 SafeWork NSW released an updated Consultation, Co-ordination, and Co-operation Code of Practice. ...
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What is a Safety Champion?
A Safety Champion is a person who works with the organisation’s health and safety system to set a good example, and to encourage and ...
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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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Doing a gap analysis may save you from prosecution
In the unfortunate event of there being an WHS incident in your workplace, SafeWork NSW may come out to investigate. When SafeWork NSW...
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Officer ordered to have "Due Diligence" training
Up until this time it has been rare to see an Officer of a business or organisation prosecuted, fined and given an order to do WHS training.
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“Reasonably Practicable” ... Fried Onions at Bunnings
In 2018 several media outlets ran a story about how Bunnings had changed the way its iconic sausage and bread delicacy could be...
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Consulting with workers and worker representatives
A business must consult with workers who carry out work for the business or undertaking and who are, or are likely to be, directly ...
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What is a Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard?
As you know, a PCBU has a duty under Section 19 of the WHS Act to ensure, so far as "reasonably practicable", the health and safety of...