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The Restoration of Workplace Health and Safety in Australia: The Model WHS laws

Weekly article 8 April 2023, 5 minute read Health and Safety Law in Australia The "Robens Model" was introduced to Australia in the...

Differences between Model WHS laws and VIC OHS laws

With the exception of the state of Victoria, all other states and territories are on the Model WHS Laws which were enacted ...

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

Foreign businesses must abide by Australian Work Health and Safety Laws

How the Model WHS laws came to be

Deaths from falls

Business owners and Directors: Questions to ask yourself

$40,000 fine for warehouse traffic management plan failures

Business owners, Directors, and CEOs may face up to 25 years imprisonment under new Industrial Manslaughter laws

Lack of training leads to $100,000 fine

Worker amputation leads to two businesses prosecuted and fined

Can Workers be prosecuted under the WHS Legislation?

Is vaping in the office ok?

Should an HSC be involved in issue resolution or health and safety disputes?

Labour hire workers and WHS

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