Achieving Compliance with WHS Legal Requirements
Weekly WHS Article 23rd June 2021 On the 1st of July we will be in a new financial year – the 2022 financial year. Your organisation has...
The Awesome Potential of a Health & Safety Committee
Weekly WHS Article 2nd June 2021 Who can be Members of a Health & Safety Committee? In NSW workplaces it is now quite common to find one...
Keeping Your Workplace Safe & Healthy
Weekly WHS Article 20th May 2021 The PCBU’s Duty of Care The WHS Act (Section 19) requires that the PCBU must ensure as far as reasonably...
Would You Like More Benefits From WHS Consultation in Your Workplace?
The WHS duty to consult with workers and others in your workplace is based on the recognition that their input, participation,...
Using SafeWork NSW’s Risk Radar to Improve WHS
Last week in our newsletter, Did You See? Issue 71, we recommended that you take a look at the SafeWork NSW resource called Risk Radar on...
SafeWork NSW Extends HSR Courses Connected Delivery Time Window
SafeWork NSW has advised us that they have extended the time in which SafeWork’s HSR courses can be delivered by connected delivery...
Empowering Members of Your Health & Safety Committee
New members of a company’s Health and Safety Committee can bring important things to the committee from their position and experience as...
Time Requirements re HSRs and Health & Safety Committee Members
Managing the health and safety risks in your workplace can be quite time consuming in the current Covid-19 risks environment so we have...
A WHS Tool to Help Identify Areas of Concern
You may find it useful to have a simple WHS tool that can help you identify areas in your workplace that are areas of concern that need...
The Lessons from Two Australian Workplace Tragedies
When a WHS incident occurs in a workplace you can be almost 100% sure that it happened because of a failure to eliminate or minimise...
The Key Points of “Must Do” Risk Management
Key Points of "Must Do" Risk Management Every organization is required to manage health and safety risks in their workplace and the WHS...
How to Minimise WHS Risks in Your Workplace
Minimising WHS risk so far as is reasonably practicable means that the risk is not eliminated but it is reduced to the lowest possible...
How to Help Prevent Injuries in Your Workplace
There are two very important clauses in the WHS Regulation 2017 that every PCBU needs to be on top of. When it comes to preventing...