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...
COVID-19 Due Diligence for Officers
Safe Work Australia has useful information on their website about effectively managing the risk COVID-19 and what Officers need to do to...
Clear Communication and Understanding is Vital for Safety
It is well known amongst Safety people, supervisors and managers that it is the duty of every business to provide information,...
How to Help Prevent Injuries in Your Workplace
There are two very important clauses in the WHS Regulation 2017 that every PCBU needs to be on top of. When it comes to preventing...
Working with a SafeWork NSW Inspector
SafeWork NSW issued a ministerial media release last week to remind “businesses and workers that it is a criminal offence to hinder,...
How to Ensure that WHS Risk Controls Remain Effective
WHS Regulation 37 states that a risk control must be maintained so that it remains effective, and that includes ensuring that the control...
Courtenell’s Public 1-day
Effective Health and Safety Committee Courses
The content below was sent out as an email to our database on the 27th of November 2018. I am writing to let you know that in the January...
“Reasonably Practicable” Fried Onions at Bunnings
Last week we sent you an article about “reasonably practicable” WHS requirements based on a train that had to be derailed in West...