Category: Safety

Workplace health and safety risks such as manual handling and injuries from interactions with plant equipment and vehicles have been recognised since…

Almost all organisations have experienced the phenomenon of worker ‘presenteeism’, whereby a worker is present at the workplace but not really fulfilling…

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

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

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

Good safety management practice includes undertaking regular workplace inspections to identify hazards and confirm that workplace risks are effectively managed. Depending on…

Safety professionals, and all PCBUs, should be aware that the job of communicating critical safety information is not done until there is…

A recently released book, Ten Pathways to Death and Disaster: Learning from Fatal Incidents in Mines and Other High Hazard Workplaces by…

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