Minimising WHS Risks –What Does Reasonably Practicable Mean?
Weekly WHS Article 18th January 2022 The most important actions in managing WHS risks in your workplace involves eliminating risks so far...
Keeping Your Workplace Safe & Healthy
Weekly WHS Article 20th May 2021 The PCBU’s overarching duty of care The WHS Act (Section 19) requires that the PCBU must ensure as far...
Provide Information, Training, Instruction, and Supervision
The NSW Code of Practice: How to Manage Health & Safety Risks, has very useful guidance that you can use to compare with the actions ....
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...
How to Handle Hazardous Manual Tasks in Your Workplace
Based on the most recent workers compensation figures from SIRA NSW , manual handling is still the most common cause of workplace injury...
Enforceable Undertaking $1.4 Million with Industry & Community Benefits
When a PCBU (business, organisation, corporation) has entered into an enforceable undertaking with SafeWork NSW it means that SafeWork...
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...
Minimise WHS Risk to Minimise Financial Loss
In your role as a WHS manager you may sometimes need to seek approval for a WHS budget or WHS expenditure that you propose. For example:...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
Manual Handling: Hazardous Manual Tasks - Are They in Your Workplace?
This article was published in 2018 The good news is that major manual handling injuries in NSW dropped 3%, from 29% in 2015-16 to 26% in...