[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] October 2021 Issue 41 Safe Work Month Events & Training No job should be unsafe and no death or injury is acceptable. October every year is a time that Safe Work Australia encourages people to work together to commit to safe and healthy workplaces for all Australians. To coincide with Safe Work…
Think Safe. Work Safe. Be Safe.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] October is National Safe Work Month, and this year’s theme is think safe. work safe. be safe. Being healthy and safe means being free from physical and psychological harm. No job should be unsafe and no death or injury is acceptable. A safe and healthy workplace benefits everyone.
Hotel Quarantine Breach – A Warning to Keep Workers Safe from COVID
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Worksafe’s hotel quarantine breach penalties are a warning for other employers to keep workers safe from COVID.
SWA Research Reports on Stigma & Psychological Response to Injury
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Injured or ill workers should be empowered to play an active role in their own recovery and return to work through both practical and psychological support, according to two new research reports by Griffith University. The reports encourage employers to provide their injured workers with greater access to workplace arrangements like flexible schedules, task modifications,…
What are the major legal trends impacting WHS professionals?
With the 10-year anniversary of harmonised WHS legislation in many jurisdictions approaching, there are a number of significant legal trends impacting WHS professionals and their organisations, according to one of South Australia’s leading workplace lawyers.
How safety management activities can decouple imagined beliefs from real practices
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gaps often exist between “work as imagined” and “work as performed” and some of these gaps may subtly nudge organisations in believing that operations are safer than they are, according to new in-progress research.
Clean Air Clean Lungs
Occupational lung disease continues to be a major work health and safety concern in Australia. To help raise awareness Safe Work Australia has launched an occupational lung disease awareness campaign which will run until December 2021.
Mental stress and harassment/bullying claims on the rise
Workers’ compensation claims related to mental stress and harassment and/or bullying have both risen in recent years, according to a recent Safe Work Australia analysis. It found the frequency rate (claims per 100 million hours worked) of mental stress claims declined from 2002–03 to 2015–16, before rising again in recent years.
Welding safety at the forefront of new research
To create a better understanding of workers’ exposure to welding fumes in Australia, the NSW Government’s Centre for Work Health and Safety is conducting new research. Together with the University of Sydney and Curtin University, the Centre is focusing on broadening the knowledge of Australian welding industries and occupations, current controls being used and the…
Beware of human error as a viable safety concept
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The biggest challenge when it comes to systems thinking is a fixation on ‘human error’ and the behaviour of workers at the so-called sharp end when trying to understand and manage safety, according to the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Safety Australia Group