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Broadcast in 2015

All seminars broadcast throughout 2015.

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Becoming a mentally healthy small business

A frank discussion on the challenges faced by many small businesses and sole traders and how these may affect their mental health and that of their workers.
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Benefits of planning and scheduling in house construction

This time-lapse video of the construction of a double storey home shows how good planning and using the right equipment can improve productivity and safety on site.
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Safe work design in construction's complex supply chains

Three leading experts will explore how the safe design of construction projects can protect the health and safety of workers – not just while they are being built, but throughout the project’s life cycle.
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Dangers of diesel exhaust fumes for business

This webinar will show you where there may be diesel exhaust hazards in your workplace, how you can evaluate the risk of exposure and how you can reduce the risk of exposure.
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Driving good work – the role of the accidental design professional

Many people who don’t typically see themselves as work designers actually have a powerful influence on work safety, from CEOs, to IT professionals to HR executives.
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Effective load restraint

This webinar discusses how to effectively restrain loads on heavy vehicles to protect the safety of workers and the users of public roads.
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Effective return to work coordination: options and best practice

This video provides practical guidance on return to work practice that benefits both workers and business.
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Elevating road safety to a corporate and community priority

When WorleyParsons identified road transport as the most critical health and safety risk for its employees, it made road safety a priority and took action.
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Full circle: A work health and safety evolution

A very personal story about life after a serious workplace injury and how one organisation changed its own work safety culture.
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Good work design and applying it to psychosocial risks

Employers in any industry can use the principles of good work design to protect workers’ psychological and physical health.
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Case study: Good work through effective design

This video shows how the ten principles of good work design can be applied in practice, using real-life industry case studies to improve the health and safety of workers and overall business performance.
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Good work through effective leadership

Leaders at all levels have a critical role to play in building a positive safe work culture, influencing safety improvements, and designing safe, healthy and productive work.
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The business case for creating a mentally healthy workplace

This brief video provides some compelling evidence to demonstrate that creating a mentally healthy workplace is good for business.
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Improving the risk management of musculoskeletal disorders

Dr Jodi Oakman from La Trobe University discusses the causes of musculoskeletal disorders and examines what this means for managing musculoskeletal risks in workplaces.
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Infographic: Fatalities, injuries and solutions in construction

1 Sep 2016

This infographic shows research and data about the most common causes of death and serious injury in the construction industry.
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Infographic: Hotspots in the construction industry

1 Sep 2016

WorkSafe Victoria's Injury Hotspots interactive tool provides an industry-wide snapshot of how people get injured at work, pinpointing areas on the body that are most likely to be injured.
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Infographic: Manufacturing industry – fatalities, injuries and solutions

1 Sep 2016

This infographic provides information about the causes of the high number of worker fatalities and injuries in the manufacturing industry.
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Infographic: Work-related mental disorders infographic

1 Sep 2016

This infographic shows clearly the size of the problem of work-related mental disorders, and common causes.
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2015 National Safe Work Month launch by Michelle Baxter, CEO of Safe Work Australia

Michelle Baxter launches 2015 National Safe Work Month and the Virtual Seminar Series by talking about why work health and safety is important to her.
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Designing safe machinery

Experts from SafeWork NSW, the Australian National University, and Work Systems Technology discuss the importance of eliminating hazards and risks from machinery before it enters the workplace.
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Minimising musculoskeletal disorders

Featuring a hospital, a fine art restoration service, and an artisan bakery, this video demonstrates a risk management approach to preventing musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace.
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Networking your work health and safety priorities with Better Work Tasmania

The Better Work Tasmania website provides a range of information, resources and advice that businesses across Australia will find useful.
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Not a croc – safety in the crocodile industry

Featuring the crocodile business in the Northern Territory, this seminar shows the innovative techniques used to reduce the risk from the hazards unique to this industry.
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Safe fleets are better business

Investing in a safer vehicle fleet for your business offers a good return on investment, provides greater security for employees, and makes a safer society for everyone.
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Safe, healthy and productive: Keynote address by Ann Sherry AO

Ann Sherry explains how managing work health and safety is not a box-ticking bureaucratic exercise that detracts from the real work of getting the job done.
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The agile leader – engaging with risk

Safe Work Australia’s CEO Michelle Baxter discusses the need build a workforce of workers, leaders and decision-makers who have the knowledge and the skills to effectively and efficiently manage risk.
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The challenges and opportunities of championing work health and safety in supply chains

Leaders from the Bureau of Meteorology describe how they meet their WHS obligations toward workers across their local and global supply chains.
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The power of cooperation – supply chains and workers’ health and safety

Experts from the ACTU, UNSW and News Corp Australia explore how consultation and cooperation in supply chain networks can be used to improve workers’ health and safety.
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The right start: building safe work for young workers

Supervisors and managers of young workers have the greatest influence on their attitude to work safety.
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Protecting the voids in house construction

One worker paid a serious penalty when he fell through a gap, or ‘void’, on a construction site. This video reminds us of the hazards and gives some simple steps to control them.
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What small business wants

This video from SafeWork NSW shows that reducing the amount of time small business owners spend trying to understand their WHS obligations saves time and increases compliance.
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Work health – influencing the supply chain through partnerships

In an industry case study, a small construction and manufacturing business describes how they applied work health and wellbeing strategies to benefit their business.
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Working safely with chemicals

Chemicals are present in most workplaces and this video explains the importance of controlling chemical hazards, irrespective of the type of the chemicals or their toxicity.

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