Health and Safety Committees (HSCs) play an important role in many NSW workplaces. When set up and used properly, they: ✅ strengthen consultation, ✅ improve risk visibility, and ✅ support better health and safety outcomes. When they are not set up and used properly, they may become something else entirely, such as: ⚠️ a forum for off‑topic debate, ⚠️ a substitute for management decision‑making, or worse, ⚠️ a place where managers attempt—intentionally or not—to offload resp

The following is from our associates at Kingston Reid Lawyers in Sydney. This article is written by Special Counsel Kate Curtain who is a senior member of the firm’s national safety and regulatory team. She can be contacted at Kate.Curtain@kingstonreid.com Kingston Reid and Kate have kindly given us permission to reproduce a briefing given to us about the proposed amendments to the WHS Act for public view: Date: 3 June, 2025. Amendments have been proposed for the Work Health

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