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...
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...