A Tragedy Highlights the PCBU’s Responsibility to Manage WHS Risks
A tragic incident in the northern suburbs last Friday has highlighted a PCBU’s WHS responsibility for managing work health and safety...
“No Risk” Risk Assessment
The injuries and two fatalities we covered in recent articles involved situations where flaws in the risk assessment and controls were...
$1 Million WHS Prosecution Sets NSW Record High
In early May 2017 the NSW District Court fined a PCBU $1 million for breaches of section 19 of the NSW WHS Act. This is the highest NSW...
How to Improve Business Through an Effective WHS Management System
Much of the success of an organization is reliant on the ongoing contributions of its staff. As Sir Richard Branson (Virgin) says:...
Maintaining Risk Controls in Your Workplace
A recent WHS prosecution in South Australia highlights the need to have and maintain effective risk controls. The Court found that in...
How and When to Review Your First Aid Arrangements
How and When to Review Your First Aid Arrangements Other Articles When is a Risk Assessment Not Necessary? Providing and Maintaining Safe...
When is a Risk Assessment Not Necessary?
It is well known that assessing the risks of a hazard is an important step in the process of managing risks to health and safety in a...
Providing and Maintaining Safe Systems of Work
This article explores the steps that could be taken in every workplace to help eliminate risk factors such as the ones below that...
Your First Aid Procedures: Do They Match the Code of Practice
This article provides key points from the First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice that you can check off against your first aid...
A Manager's Actions to Achieve their WHS Duty of Care
The elements of a manager’s WHS duty of care are set out in section 28 of the WHS Act 2011. But the actions that each manager needs to...
Should Your Managers & Supervisors do WHS Consultation Training
We recently received a success story from the manager of a company who attended one of our SafeWork 5 day HSR courses. The wins that the...
$945,000 Undertaking Stops WHS Prosecution
Recently a PCBU managed to avoid prosecution by their WHS Regulator even though one of the PCBU's workers was killed at work. But in this...
A WHS Management Tool for Managers & Supervisors
An effective WHS management system is obviously vital for health and safety in any workplace. When it is not functioning effectively,...
