The importance of Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) WorkSafe Victoria delivered an information forum recently that outlined HSRs and WorkSafe’s Strategic Plan. This document described some of the preconceptions that some employers or managers may have toward HSRs. For example: The r...

Compliance codes provide practical guidance to duty holders on how to comply with duties under the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act 2004 and OHS Regulations 2017. While the guidance provided in a compliance code is not mandatory, a duty holder who complies with a compliance cod...

Welcome to 2022. Now that we are back in the office, it might be a time to review your workplace asbestos register. A task often overlooked in busy and constantly changing work environments. According to WorkSafe Victoria Compliance code: Managing asbestos in workplaces 2019: ‘The asbesto...

The Victorian County Court has reinforced, through a significant penalty, the importance of businesses operating in high-risk environments to ensure engineering controls are implemented when required. Last month a civil construction organisation was fined $550,000 following the tragic death of tw...

Safety culture, or its derivatives such as “Health and safety culture”, “Culture of safety” or even “Organisational culture” is much discussed and written about in safety circles and often appears to be both the problem and the solution. One of the issues is t...