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:...
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 ...
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...
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....
What is the “Adequate Number of Trained First Aiders”?
The WHS Regulation 2017 (42) requires every PCBU to provide workers with access to an “adequate number of trained first aiders”. Pages...
Two questions regarding WHS consultation
We often get questions from clients about what they have to do to comply with WHS consultation requirements. Two common questions are...
WHS Training for new people
The answers to this question are not always obvious. The main places to look for the answers are in the Work Health and Safety Act (WHS Act)
“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...
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...
Risks of Falls at Workplaces
Falls from height can occur in many industries. Your workplace may have one or more areas where there is a potential for falling from ...
A Tragedy Highlights the PCBU’s Responsibility to Manage WHS Risks
A tragic incident in the northern suburbs has highlighted a PCBU’s responsibility for managing work health and safety risks. A...
Why the Judge Convicted the Officer
In a Sydney District Court judgement on the 2nd of November 2017 an Officer was convicted of failing to comply with his duty to exercise ...
Industrial Manslaughter New WHS Offence in Queensland
Under the harmonised WHS system, all States and Territories (except Victoria) have a Work Health & Safety Act based on the model WHS...