by claire | Jul 16, 2018 | News, Work Health and Safety
Harmonisation, or a streamlining and revamping of health and safety legislation in Australia, has been talked about for around 10 years. It has long since been implemented in all states, excluding Victoria and Western Australia. The change of state government and...
by claire | Oct 11, 2015 | News, Work Health and Safety
On 4th September 2015 WorkSafe WA announced an inspection program to look at manual task incidents in hospitals and residential care. “Inspectors will visit hospitals and residential care services to see how well incidents and injuries involving manual tasks and...
by claire | Sep 10, 2015 | News
WorkSafe WA have announced a proactive inspection campaign to focus on manual tasks in the health care sector. See: http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/announcements/worksafe-inspection-program-look-manual-task-incidents-hospitals-and-residential-care Crest Training can...
by claire | Aug 25, 2015 | News
Many organisations in Australia build and implement their WHS management systems in alignment with AS/NZS 4801 or OHSAS 18001. ISO (The International Organisation for Standardisation) is developing a new standard, ISO 45001 Occupational health and safety management...
by claire | Jul 12, 2015 | News
On the 27th April 2015 ‘Chain of Responsibility’ legislation was introduced in to Western Australian legislation. The provisions of ‘Chain of Responsibility’ are detailed in the Road Traffic (Vehicles) Act 2012 and the Road Traffic...
by claire | May 3, 2015 | News
In March changes were made to a number of qualifications in the Business Services Training Package. From a Work Health and Safety perspective the most significant change is to the unit of competency – BSBWHS402. This unit of competency, ‘Assist with...
