October is National Safe Work Month—a time to commit to building a safe and healthy workplace. Individuals, their families and the broader community are all impacted by work-related injury and illness. Last year in Australia, Safe Work Australia preliminary data shows that around 163 peopl...

In response to the prevalence of silica related diseases throughout several industries, a review and halving of the workplace exposure standard by Safe Work Australia for respirable crystalline silica was enforced in July 2020. Following this, the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Cr...

Many organisations may be involved with the logistics of dangerous goods, as a result you should have some knowledge in relation to Heavy Vehicle National Law for Chain of Responsibility (CoR) and the Australian Dangerous Goods (ADG) Code. The National Transport Commission (NTC) has some great t...

  As we transition through and hopefully away from the COVID pandemic there will be much written about the response and its effectiveness as well as recommendations going forward. Legal proceedings are likely to shape what is written. On July 22nd, 2022, WorkSafe Victoria announced that an ...

The recent prosecution of Marshall Lethlean Industry (MLI) is a reminder to all employers about the danger of presuming that a space not originally classified as a confined space, can gain those hazardous attributes through poor work practices. Furthermore, the use of any dangerous good in areas ...