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...
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...
How Can You Avoid Having a Serious Incident or Disaster in Your Workplace?
The journey to avoiding a serious incident, disaster, or minor injuries and harm in your workplace begins with the commitment and actions...
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...
Enforceable Undertaking $1.4 Million with Industry & Community Benefits
When we hear that a PCBU has entered into an enforceable undertaking with SafeWork NSW, we feel like applauding. It means that SafeWork...
Real Time Remote Connected Delivery - What is it?
It appears that SafeWork NSW may be the first to come up with the term, Real Time Remote Connected Delivery. Congratulations, it is a...
Three Categories of WHS Offences and Table of NSW Penalty Units
When the WHS Act was amended on the 10th of June 2020 an offence called “gross negligence” was added in to the Act as a Category 1...
Increased WHS Penalties and Due Diligence for Officers
The NSW WHS Act and WHS Regulation were amended on the 10th June 2020. Those amendments included a change in how penalties are...
Higher NSW WHS Dollar Penalties are now in Force
NSW Parliament began the task of considering proposed amendments to the NSW WHS Act in November 2019. However, the parliamentary legal...
Minimise WHS Risk to Minimise Financial Loss
Because of your role and responsibilities in your organisation you may sometimes need to seek approval for a WHS Budget or WHS...