by claire | Nov 29, 2015 | Work Health and Safety
Many organisations are concerned about the potential implications for ‘Officers’ under the proposed WHS legislation. These concerns particularly involve the fact that an individual can be held directly liable and prosecuted for not exercising ‘due diligence’ – a...
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 | Aug 5, 2015 | Work Health and Safety
Often when delivering health and safety training to people working in the HR field I hear ‘What’s in it for me?’ In this day and age, the link between these two professions could not be more firmly bonded. In essence, HR involves people and systems to manage people....
by claire | May 13, 2015 | Work Health and Safety
A policy is an overarching document that details the organisations’ objectives and the broad strategies for achieving these. The primary policy should be the organisation’s WHS policy. If the organisation is seeking compliance with AS/NZS 4801...
by claire | Jan 31, 2015 | Work Health and Safety
ISO 3100 provides us with principles and guidelines on risk management. It is a framework that can be applied to all organisations. The first step in this framework is ‘establishing the context’ This important step is often missed, resulting in an...
by claire | Jan 18, 2015 | Work Health and Safety
What is harmonisation? Harmonisation is an endeavour to create consistent WHS (Work Health and Safety) legislation across the states, territories and Commonwealth in Australia. Why is it taking place? WHS legislation is periodically reviewed. Whilst we have had minor...
