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Know your duties - a tool for working safely
This tool provides information about duties under the model WHS laws, including duties for PCBUs and workers in the agriculture industry, how to meet these duties, and hazards you may face working in agriculture.
This is part three in a three-part series.Safe Work Australia has collaborated with CSIRO’s Data61 to produce the Workplace Safety Futures report, which explored 6 megatrends that is emerging in the WHS and workers’ compensation over the next 20 years.…
This is part two in a three-part series.Safe Work Australia has collaborated with CSIRO’s Data61 to produce Workplace Safety Futures report that explores the impact of emerging trends on WHS and workers’ compensation over the next 20 years.The report…
This is part one in a three-part series.Michelle Baxter, CEO of Safe Work Australia speak about the Australian approach on work health and safety at the Singapore WSH conference 2018. Michelle has highlighted some key principles that underpin the Work…
Safe Work Australia CEO Michelle Baxter represented Australia at the Singapore WSH Conference in 2018.The conference theme was Transforming for the future: healthy workforce, safe workplaces.Michelle gave some strategic insights from Safe Work …
As a national policy body, Safe Work Australia shapes healthier, safer, and productive workplaces. We do this by developing and improving national work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements.We have created a short animation to tell our…
Each year preventable work-related injuries and illnesses costs the Australian economy $61.8 billion. As a national policy body, Safe Work Australia works to shape healthier, safer and more productive workplaces for all Australians.To help you better…
Heat is a hazard in many Australian workplaces, whether work is performed indoors or outdoors. To help you identify hazards in your workplace you should talk to workers, including health and safety representatives, and other duty holders. You can also…
Businesses must do everything that is reasonably practicable to eliminate the risks to workers’ health and safety, including those associated with working in heat. This may include cancelling certain work tasks, rescheduling tasks to cooler parts of the…
It’s important to identify hazards, assess risks and have control measures in place to keep workers safe while working in heat. Examples of controls can be found on our website and in the Guide for managing the risks of working in heat.
You can eliminate the risks of working in heat by designing the work environment with safety in mind. For example, installing air-conditioning and ventilation. Businesses must eliminate the risks arising from work environments and facilities, and if that…
If you are involved in managing a small to medium business then you are likely to have a duty as an ‘officer’ under work health and safety laws. This video features workers from a range of industries talking about why they are an officer in their business.
About this seminarAn organisation’s ‘culture’ consists of the values and behaviours that workers share and demonstrate. It can include the shared attitudes and beliefs that form part of the organisation’s written and unwritten rules.In this broadcast,…