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On this page you will find all of our WHS articles and issues of ‘Your Safety Matters’ organised in a blog format. You can search for an entry by looking through the archives or selecting a subject tag.

The Focus of WHS Training For Supervisors

October 16, 2018

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Our WHS article last week listed the responsibilities and functions that a Supervisor might perform in most workplaces. If you missed seeing that the...

Your Wish List About Supervisor WHS Responsibilities & Functions

October 9, 2018

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This article considers the responsibilities of a Supervisor and the functions a Supervisor could perform. These will be different from one workplace...

October – The Benefits of Safe Work Month

October 1, 2018

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October 2018 is almost here and October is National Safe Work Month. Perhaps you have already prepared to reinforce your safe work efforts by joining...

Changes to the SIRA Training Requirement for Return to Work Coordinators

September 18, 2018

As you probably know the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) inherited the NSW workers compensation functions from WorkCover NSW. Those funct...

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 2

September 12, 2018

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This WHS article is a continuation of the first article, What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard?. In Part 2 we have set out a number of actions tha...

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 1

September 5, 2018

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As you know, a PCBU has a duty under Section 19 of the WHS Act to ensure, so far as "reasonably practicable", the health and safety of workers and ot...

What or Who is a PCBU?

August 13, 2018

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We talk with people about WHS every day and it is clear that a significant number of people have an uncertain or incomplete concept of what or who is...

A WHS Tool to Help Identify Areas of Concern

August 6, 2018

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Our recent WHS articles have contained tools that you could use to step back from the daily work traffic in your workplace and take an exterior viewp...

Industrial Manslaughter - a New WHS Offence

November 14, 2017

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Under the harmonised WHS system, all States and Territories (except Victoria and West Australia) have a Work Health & Safety Act based on the model W...

Are Your Workers Consulted When ..?

January 25, 2016

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A safe and healthy workplace is easier to achieve when workers are consulted and involved. And the WHS Act (section 49) says workers must be consulte...

Achieving Effective Consultation in 2016

January 18, 2016

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Our article last week, WHS Consultation in NSW in 2016, dealt with the methods of WHS Consultation that are being used in the 106 workplaces in NSW t...

WHS Consultation in NSW in 2016

January 10, 2016

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Four years have now passed since the revised methods of consultation came into force in the NSW WHS Act. How have workplaces responded to these chang...

The Process of WHS Consultation in 2015

September 7, 2015

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The Background

Prior to 2012, in our experience of workplaces with 50 or more employees, workplace consultation with workers was mainly carried out b...

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The Key Points of “Must Do” Risk Management

February 5, 2020

Minimise WHS Risk to Minimise Financial Loss

November 19, 2019

How to Maintain and Review WHS Risk Controls

November 5, 2019

How to Minimise WHS Risks in Your Workplace

October 29, 2019

Which is Best? Onsite or Public WHS Training?

October 22, 2019

Using Realistic WHS Targets & Consultation for a Safe & Heal...

October 8, 2019

How to Help Prevent Injuries in Your Workplace

September 24, 2019

The Best Way to Set Up Work Groups for Consultation with Wor...

September 17, 2019

Changes in Two Important WHS Codes of Practice Updated by Sa...

September 10, 2019

The Benefits of Training the Chairperson of a Health & Safet...

August 26, 2019

Preventing Workplace Injuries

August 19, 2019

What is a Safety Champion?

August 14, 2019

Successful Health & Safety Committee Chairpersons

July 29, 2019

A Lack of Adequate Supervision Cost $588,000

July 16, 2019

What is the “Adequate Number of Trained First Aiders”?

July 9, 2019

Manual Handling: Hazardous Manual Tasks - Are They in Your...

July 1, 2019

Does Your Workplace Have Gaps in WHS Compliance?

June 4, 2019

The Values of HSRs and Health & Safety Committee Members

May 27, 2019

SIRA’s Competency Requirements for RTW Coordinators

May 21, 2019

Will There Be a 50% Increase in WHS Penalty Levels?

May 14, 2019

Where Do Manual Task Injuries Come From?

May 7, 2019

DYS Issue 65 - May 2019

April 30, 2019

Officer Ordered to Have Due Diligence Training

April 16, 2019

How to Review WHS Risk Controls

March 25, 2019

How to Comply with WHS Consultation Requirements

March 4, 2019

WHS Training: What Training?

February 19, 2019

Working with a SafeWork NSW Inspector

February 12, 2019

How to Ensure that WHS Risk Controls Remain Effective

January 14, 2019

Courtenell’s Public 1-day Effective Health and Safety Commi...

December 8, 2018

“Reasonably Practicable” Fried Onions at Bunnings

November 22, 2018

How to Avoid a WHS Disaster Do Everything “Reasonably Practi...

November 15, 2018

Return to Work National Survey Outcomes Summary

November 8, 2018

DYS Issue 64 - November 2018

October 30, 2018

The Focus of WHS Training For Supervisors

October 16, 2018

Your Wish List About Supervisor WHS Responsibilities & Funct...

October 9, 2018

DYS Issue 63 - October 2018

October 4, 2018

October – The Benefits of Safe Work Month

October 1, 2018

Changes to the SIRA Training Requirement for Return to Work...

September 18, 2018

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 2

September 12, 2018

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 1

September 5, 2018

What or Who is a PCBU?

August 13, 2018

A WHS Tool to Help Identify Areas of Concern

August 6, 2018

DYS Issue 62 - August 2018

August 2, 2018

PCBU Interaction with HSRs and Health & Safety Committee

July 30, 2018

How to Increase the Benefits of WHS Consultation Part 2

July 24, 2018

YSM 136 - A WHS Risks Check

July 18, 2018

How to Increase the Benefits of WHS Consultation Part 1

July 16, 2018

Tragic Lessons in Work Health & Safety

July 9, 2018

Do PCBUs have to Train their Managers & Supervisors in WHS?

June 25, 2018

Has Your HSRs’ or Committee Members’ Term of Office Expired?

June 19, 2018

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Work Health and Safety Articles

The Focus of WHS Training For Supervisors

Your Wish List About Supervisor WHS Responsibilities & Functions

October – The Benefits of Safe Work Month

Changes to the SIRA Training Requirement for Return to Work Coordinators

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 2

What is a “Reasonably Foreseeable Hazard”? - Part 1

What or Who is a PCBU?

A WHS Tool to Help Identify Areas of Concern

Industrial Manslaughter - a New WHS Offence

Are Your Workers Consulted When ..?

Achieving Effective Consultation in 2016

WHS Consultation in NSW in 2016

The Process of WHS Consultation in 2015

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