Key workplace safety stats: what can you learn from them?
- November 18, 2020
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Safe Work Australia recently released its Key Workplace Health and Safety statistics for 2020. Divided into two categories — workplace fatalities and workplace injury and disease — the stats provide…
New temporary OHS regulations now in place in Victoria
- July 29, 2020
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By Jay McGrath, Senior Account Manager Yesterday, July 28, the Victorian government declared temporary Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Regulations 2020 (OHS COVID-19 Regulations). These regulations create what…
Aggravation of injuries: what you need to know
- July 14, 2020
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- aggravations, injury, law, OHS, prevention, safety, Workers Compensation
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In order to avoid workers’ compensation claims that result from an aggravation of a prior injury, employers need to be aware of what the law does — and does not…
Imprisonment in industrial manslaughter case
- June 16, 2020
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An auto recycler in Brisbane has become the first business to be sentenced according to Queensland’s new industrial manslaughter laws. Last week, Judge Anthony Rafter SC sentenced Brisbane Auto Recycling’s…
Preventing an outbreak in the workplace
- May 6, 2020
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With the recent news that Victoria has experienced a new cluster of COVID-19 at a meat processing plant — just as talk has turned to opening the state up after…