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Month: August 2015
Compliance Online Website Now Active
Our Compliance Online website is now active and available to all subscribers and regular clients. The new website provides resources to assist you implement and maintain your safety and quality systems including: Links to relevant websites; News and updates as they happen; Document Templates; Safe Work Procedures; Safety Meeting material; Posters, motivators and videos; Helpdesk, Read More …
Proposed new Workers Comp Laws for Queensland
The Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 was introduced into Par-liament on 15 July 2015. The Bill implements the Queensland Government’s election commitments for Restoring the Rights of Queenslanders Injured at Work. If passed by Parliament, the Bill will achieve the Government’s commitments for workers’ compensation matters by amending the Workers’ Read More …
Converting to High Risk Work Licences In South Australia
SafeWork SA is urging workers to convert any Certificates of Competency or old style tickets issued between January 2005 and September 2010 to the national high risk work licence before the deadline of 1 September 2015. This is the final year of the five year transition period for workers to convert their qualifications to the Read More …
Lockout and Tagout
Lock Out/Tag Out programs are used to prevent contact with a hazard while performing tasks that require the removal, by-passing, or deactivation of safe guarding devices, and the unintended release of hazardous energy (stored energy), or the unintended start-up or motion of machinery, equipment, or processes. Lockout Lock Out is the control of hazardous energy Read More …
Recent Judgement Explains Who is an Officer Under the WHS Laws
The ACT Industrial Magistrates Court has delivered the first judgement in Australia interpreting the meaning of “officer” under the harmonised Work Health & Safety Act, which operates in all States and Territories except Victoria and Western Australia. In the case of B McKie v Muni Al-Hasani, Kenoss Contractors Pty Ltd (in liq) [2015] ACTIC 1, Read More …
WA Company Fined After Worker Suffers Serious Fall
A manufacturer of electrical switchboards was found guilty of failing to provide and maintain a safe working environment in breach of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. after two workers were seriously injured when they fell from a scissor lift. In the incident which occurred on 25 February 2013, the two workers were in a Read More …