

Using SafeWork NSW’s Risk Radar to Improve WHS
We recommend taking a look at the SafeWork NSW's Risk radar | SafeWork NSW . In Risk Radar you can select each job in your industry and...


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...


Time Frames for HSRs
Time frame for negotiating to have HSRs If one or more workers requests to have health and safety representatives represent them for the...


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...


Maintenance and Review of WHS Risk Controls
If all WHS risks in your workplace have been eliminated or controlled (as per the Hierarchy of Control Measures described in the ...


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....


Changes in the Consultation Code of Practice (2019)
On 30 August 2019 SafeWork NSW released an updated Consultation, Co-ordination, and Co-operation Code of Practice. ...


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 ....


Running effective HSCs - Solutions to common problems
The effectiveness of health and safety committees depends on the commitment, knowledge, and individual areas of expertise of their...


Officer ordered to have "Due Diligence" training
Up until this time it has been rare to see an Officer of a business or organisation prosecuted, fined and given an order to do WHS training.


Two questions regarding WHS consultation
We often get questions from clients about what they have to do to comply with WHS consultation requirements. Two common questions are...


Upskilling your WHS committee members
The WHS Act does not say "who" exactly should be on a health and safety committee, other than Health and Safety Representatives (if they ...