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Work Health and Safety Articles

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

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How SafeWork NSW Decides on Compliance & Enforcement Action

If a SafeWork NSW Inspector found evidence of a breach of WHS laws in a workplace, the Inspector would carry out the next steps according...

HSR Training for health and safety representatives

What HSR Training is available for a Health and Safety Representative? A Health and Safety Representative (HSR) is entitled to attend: a...

WHS Case Study – Hot Coolant, Cold Reality: When Inexperience Meets Risk

HSRs and Risk Management

If It’s in Your Risk Assessment, You Must Implement It

Significant amendments to Model WHS Act and Regulation

Health and Safety Committee Provisions in NSW WHS Act 2011

Three Categories of WHS Offences and a Table of NSW Penalty Units (2025-2026)

Consultation as the fundamental failure in serious work health and safety incidents

Psychosocial Safety 2026: The Code that becomes Law

Lack of Proactive Officer Duties Drives a 30 % Higher Workplace Fatality Rate

Chemical Hazards – The Hidden Risk Across All Industries

National Safe Work Month 2025

"Bullying" versus "Reasonable Management" actions

Food Delivery Riders Need To Be Inducted

Workplace fatality sees directors personally charged for breaches of duty under WHS Law

Recent prosecutions show ongoing inadequacies in warehouse safety training

Bullying and Harassment costs Director $15,000 in fines

Warehouse risk management failures lead to $35,000 fine

Medicinal Cannabis & the Workplace: Is Your Drug & Alcohol Policy Still Fit for Purpose?

Proposed amendments to the WHS Act

Fire Training does not have to be delivered only by an RTO

Fire wardens and emergency plans

What does it take to be an HSR trainer?

Victoria tightens the noose in light of non-compliance with OHS prosecutions

Menopause is not a "WHS matter"

Liabilities of Directors in new Industrial Manslaughter laws

“Hands on” Director not prosecuted

Employer convicted and fined for failure to provide information

Construction company fined $270,000 after fatal fall

Revisions to the Safe Work Australia Worker Representation and Participation Guide

Foreign businesses must abide by Australian Work Health and Safety Laws

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