Good News about SafeWork NSW’s updated HSR courses
In late 2022 SafeWork NSW completed a review of the SafeWork NSW developed Health and Safety Representatives Training Course Material ....
Know Your Psychosocial Hazards at Work
Company directors and business owners must talk to staff about WHS risks including psychosocial hazards in their workplace in keeping ...
Do Workers Have the Right to Cease or Refuse Unsafe Work?
“A worker may cease, or refuse to carry out, work if the worker has a reasonable concern that to carry out the work would expose the...
SafeWork NSW extends online HSR courses window
(2020) SafeWork NSW has advised us that they have extended the time in which SafeWork’s HSR courses can be delivered by Real Time Remote...
HSR Training Online
Courtenell delivers both the SafeWork NSW Initial 5-Day Health and Safety Representative course, and SafeWork NSW 1-Day HSR Refresher course
Clear Communication, Understanding, and Health and Safety
Every person in a workplace is a WHS duty holder. All WHS duty holders must know that their PCBU has the overarching duty to train its...
What Are the Essential Health and Safety Protocols for Employees to Follow?
In today's workplace, health and safety protocols are more critical than ever. Employees are the backbone of any organization, and...
Case study: Determining work groups for WHS consultation
On the 9th of July 2019 the NSW Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) delivered its decision on whether an employer had made....
What is a Safety Champion?
A Safety Champion is a person who works with the organisation’s health and safety system to set a good example, and to encourage and ...
A Day in the Life of a Health and Safety Representative
Have you seen the video by SafeWork NSW called “A Day in the Life of a HSR”. It’s only 1 min 48 seconds long and is the result of ....
Consulting with workers and worker representatives
A business must consult with workers who carry out work for the business or undertaking and who are, or are likely to be, directly ...
Suggestions for Health & Safety Committee Members
The WHS Act does not say "who" exactly should be on a health and safety committee, other than Health and Safety Representatives ...
Court clarifies HSRs right to choose a HSR course
A decision by the NSW Industrial Relations Commission on 3 March 2017 has made it clear that a HSR can choose the HSR course they want to...