Category: Safety

Challenging Human Nature …

The competitive character trait in human nature can start at a young age, and become especially evident when there is an older…

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Well it must be the season for the release of government reviews in Queensland …

Two major reviews impacting the legislative expectations for safety management in Queensland have recently been released: the review of the Work Health…

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Psychosocial Safety at work - what do employers need to do?

With the recent changes to managing psychosocial hazards in April 2023, including the amendments to the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011…

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Australia’s New WHS Strategy

Safe Work Australia (the Australian Government’s statutory agency representing the interests of workers and employers to improve work health and safety [WHS])…

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Sorry, I can’t answer your email right now as I am having a work-life balance crisis…

International research has recently confirmed that after-hours contact from Management heightens employee stress levels. Now this probably isn’t ground-breaking news, but it is…

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Are you prepared for the new Psychosocial Code of Practice? Part 2

In the February edition of Insight, we explored the issues that PCBUs (persons conducting a business or undertaking) are now required to…

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Incident Investigations – Opportunities for Improvement and Learning

Without meaning to sound callous, workplace incidents can and should be seen as opportunities for system improvement and implementing a more robust…

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Who has access?

The issue of ‘access’ and ‘accessibility’ comes up in a number of the ISO Management Standards, and within a series of audit…

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Are you prepared for the new Psychosocial Code of Practice? Part 1

Employers in Australia have had quite a few years to get used to expectations around managing the physical aspects of workplace health…

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