With the imposition of lockdowns in Victoria, businesses have had to find different ways to maintain the currency of their employees that does not rely upon face-to-face learning. The advent of real time on-line training has been one way to keep employees up to date as well as compliant with eit...

October is National Safe Work Month in Australia. A time of the year when the safety community and workplaces come together around a central theme. In 2022 the chosen theme is “Think safe, work safe, be safe” Think safe—is the first step to thinking about health and safety, wh...

As Victoria's health and safety regulator, WorkSafe is responsible for ensuring that duty holders comply with their obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OHS Act) and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (OHS Regulations). The Victorian Government made an ...

Worksafe Victoria has released a Memo that may affect duty holders/occupiers where dangerous goods are stored. Under the existing Victorian Dangerous Good (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2012, one of the duties imposed on occupiers of premises, where quantities of dangerous goods are stored an...

Safe Work Australia (SWA) has conducted a review of chemical exposure standards beginning in 2018. The outcome of this review is very likely to lead to significant changes to work practices in Australian workplaces as new products are added, or exposure standards reduced. Edited extract for S...