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Watch Safe Work Australia CEO, Michelle Baxter deliver a keynote presentation at Comcare’s national forum on sexual harassment.

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Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

Occupational lung diseases are work-related lung conditions of the respiratory system. 

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Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

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Sam Hamilton, Director Occupational Diseases and Hygiene Policy presenting to the Australasian University Safety Association.

 

 

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In this presentation, Kim outlines the important role and challenges faced by health and safety representatives; our workplace heroes. Some suggestions for future work for Safe Work Australia are also provided.

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In this conversation, three business leaders from large corporations will share how they have led in tough conditions and ‘what keeps them awake at night'.

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Introduced by SafeWork SA’s Bryan Russell, this video outlines seven simple and practical steps leaders can use when managing for better work health and safety outcomes.

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This is part two in a two-part series. Introduced by Dr Simon Blackwood, the ‘Linking Safety Leadership and Safety Culture in Queensland’ presentations feature executives and senior managers sharing their journeys through safety leadership.

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In this video, Barbara Rusinko of Bechtel Corporation talks about safety leadership and the lasting impact of seeing her workmate die.

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Silica is silicon dioxide, a naturally occurring and widely abundant mineral that forms the major component of most rocks and soils. Crystalline silica dust particles can penetrate deep into the lungs and cause illness and disease.

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Professor Parker discusses the principles of good work design, why they are important, and how we can use them to make workplaces safer and improve workers’ wellbeing.

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Supporting information

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Workplace bullying remains a serious problem in many Australian workplaces, costing individuals and organisations in poor productivity, absenteeism and mental stress. 

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Who is this presentation for? 

This presentation is for workers, managers, health and safety representatives and professional advisers.

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For many workplace leaders, the safety vision they are still working towards is focussed on achieving an absence of injury.

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Supporting information

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About this seminar 

Road safety management of standard car fleets is generally well regulated and well understood. But this is not the case for grey fleets – vehicles used for work that are not owned by the driver’s employer.

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Jason Garrels was just 20 years old when he died at a construction site in Clermont, Queensland in 2012. He had only been working there for nine days and his death was preventable. 

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Under the model Work Health and Safety Laws, workplaces that handle or use hazardous chemicals must use the hierarchy of controls to manage health and safety risks.  

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Produced by the National Farmers’ Federation, this short video demonstrates their simple four-step process for managing safety risks.

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Today’s society is increasingly focused on a 24/7 economy and the expectations on people to work at all hours of the day have increased. 

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In this broadcast, Shaun Jenkinson, from ANSTO discusses his organisation’s plan for zero injuries, zero defects and zero waste. 

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Dr Robert Long is an expert in social psychology. In this podcast he talks about the ‘social psychology of risk’ and what it offers the work health and safety industry. 

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This webinar explores work health and safety obligations and compliance as it applies to small business. The panellists provide insights into how businesses can establish work health and safety management plans to ensure they meet their duty of care now and into the future.

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Officers have a work health and safety duty under work health and safety laws. This video features workers from a range of industries talking about how they meet their officer duty.

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Heat is a hazard that can cause heat-related illness and increase the risk of work-related injury.

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Speed moderation is fundamental to reducing road trauma, yet the role of speeding in crashes is often misunderstood by drivers. 

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In this broadcast, the panel examines the implications of megatrends on the Australian workplace. Megatrends are large, transformative, global forces that define the future by having a far-reaching impact on businesses, economies, industries, societies and individuals.  

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Working on a farm presents various work health and safety hazards, including working alone or in remote locations, working with large animals and chemical exposure. 

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Electrical shocks are a major cause of serious injury or death in the trade industry. 

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Peter, Liz and Wes will provide practical strategies to designing out hazards and explore work health and safety and productivity improvements that result from good design of machinery. 

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Practicing safe work methods is essential when working in a high-risk industry like construction. This video highlights the need for exclusion zones to ensure the safety of everyone working on-site. 

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Produced as part of the National Road Safety Partnership Program, this webinar discusses the fundamentals of load restraint and the importance of having an engineered load restraint system that includes testing, training, guidelines and audits. 

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While we’ve come a long way in ensuring physical health and safety is a normal part of how we work, our next challenge is to ensure mental health is given the same priority.

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What is asbestos? 

Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral and typically found in rock, sediment or soil. Asbestos was once considered very useful for building products, gaskets, and friction materials like brake linings. 

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We're always trying to continually improve safety as part of our culture here at Arcadian Organic, so we really wanted to make sure that people were safe in their environment.

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Research shows that healthy workers are: 

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Featuring a hospital, a fine art restoration service, and an artisan bakery, this video shows how risk management and the hierarchy of controls can be used to protect workers’ health and safety.

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This presentation gives suggestions on how organisations can use the concept of the ‘safety ladder’ to advance their safety.

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You have a duty to take reasonable care of your own health and others in the workplace.

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When it comes to psychological health and safety, employers can often be confused about their responsibilities. They want to know how to address the legal requirements, what best practice is, and how they can address the risks.

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Professor Richard Johnstone explains what responsive regulation is, the history, and its theoretical foundations. He discusses how responsive regulation is a flexible solution between the two arguments: one for less regulation and one for more ‘command and control’ regulation.

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In this seminar, international safety expert Professor Patrick Hudson reflects on the challenges facing organisations trying to implement processes to improve their safety performance.

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This broadcast introduces workplaces to the Participative Ergonomics for Manual Tasks (PErforM) program, a simple risk management program used by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

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Safe Work Australia Chair, Diane Smith-Gander AO encourages everyone to be safety champions.

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Working in an emergency department presents a range of physical and mental work health and safety hazards, including exposure to infection, bodily fluids, highly emotional situations and patient aggression.

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Safe Work Australia partnered with Comcare to broadcast a webinar as part of National Safe Work Month 2020 – Accelerated workplace change in the face of COVID-19.

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