Category: Safety

Sedentary work risks

Workplace health and safety risks such as manual handling and injuries from interactions with plant equipment and…

Workspaces and worker wellbeing

Almost all organisations have experienced the phenomenon of worker ‘presenteeism’, whereby a worker is present at the…

Obstacles to organisational resilience

Traditional business continuity is about providing a means of reducing the severity of business interruptions by identifying…

Managing workplace conflict

Worker mental health has increasingly come under the spotlight in recent years, and as links between mental…

The right safety professional

Most organisations seeking to hire a new safety professional for a role in the organisation give considerable…

Checking that safety systems work

Good safety management practice includes undertaking regular workplace inspections to identify hazards and confirm that workplace risks…

Successful safety communication

Safety professionals, and all PCBUs, should be aware that the job of communicating critical safety information is…

Patterns of WHS incidents

A recently released book, Ten Pathways to Death and Disaster: Learning from Fatal Incidents in Mines and…

Safety Highlights from the L20

The G20 meeting hosted in Brisbane in November 2014 included a Labour 20 (L20) Summit, which incorporated…