A manager’s guide to avoiding health and safety issues in the workplace

A manager’s guide to avoiding health and safety issues in the workplace As a manager, one of your prime responsibilities in the workplace is to provide a safe and healthy environment in which your employees can work. Health and safety issues can have a major impact on how your business operat ...
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Model Code of Practice - How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks

This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction. The duty is placed on persons conducting a business or undertaking, including employers, self-em ...
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Deaths mar holiday season at Victoria workplaces

There has been a lethal conclusion to 2014 at workplaces in Victoria, with seven deaths in seven weeks.  "Whether you're a farmer, living on a farm or even working in other industries, the pre-holiday rush can often be a very dangerous time of year. Complacency and distraction are key contribu ...
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Who’s responsible?

When a worker dies on the job, does the fault lie with the employer or the government’s oversight agency? A Wyoming newspaper and the state’s OSHA program recently debated the question in the editorial pages. The Casper Star-Tribune’s editorial board published an op-ed on Dec. ...
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Australian Workers' Compensation Statistics 2012–13

For all those interested in work place safety, liability and accidents, 2012-2013 have now been relesased by Safe Work Australia: Key findings from the report include: there were 117 815 serious workers’ compensation claims in 2012-13p males accounted for 63 per cent of serious claims in 2012 ...
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