Browsing: Workplace safety representatives


WED
1:58PM

Qantas fined $250k for WHS discrimination in scathing judgment with warning for other PCBUs

A judge has highlighted the critical roles elected health and safety representatives play in achieving the objectives of WHS laws, and making it feasible for PCBUs to comply with their consultation duties, in fining a Qantas subsidiary for "shameful" WHS discrimination.


FRI
1:03PM

WED
3:55PM

FRI
2:08PM

HSRs' powers boosted and safety discrimination banned in highly hazardous sector

The powers of elected health and safety representatives and protections against safety discrimination in the offshore sector have been stepped up and aligned with those in WHS laws, in a Bill introduced some six years after a parliamentary inquiry warned the changes were needed to combat a "culture of fear and reprisal".


WED
2:07PM

WED
11:48AM

Elected HSRs key to smooth roll out of psychosocial laws

The attitudes of workplace health and safety representatives towards the "momentous" legislative changes creating new duties for psychosocial risks will be crucial to the successful implementation of the laws, a study has found.


THU
12:27PM

25 dismissals ruled unfair after WHS consultation failures

A major employer's failure to consult workers on a controversial WHS mandate created a "paradigm of opposition" in the workforce and led to a large number of workers being unfairly dismissed, a commission has ruled in a 529-paragraph judgment.


WED
2:18PM

Psychosocial risk assessments demanded by inquiry

A WHS regulator will enforce the utilisation of risk assessments for psychosocial hazards in psychologically dangerous workplaces, under one of 18 recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into NSW's workers' compensation system.


FRI
3:00PM

WHS amendments introduced, as every targeted PCBU fails WHS compliance test

Provisions for health and safety representatives and entry rights could be amended by a new Queensland WHS Bill, while a WHS blitz has found that every targeted business in one industry was breaching its health and safety obligations.


FRI
3:52PM

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