An employer has been refused permission to amend its fatigue management procedures to reduce the number of rest breaks per shift, because it failed to obtain unanimous agreement from a cross-section of workers.
Establishing an OHS committee proved pivotal to the success of an employer's award-winning health and wellbeing strategy, according to one of its directors.
In this article, an HR director outlines how his company improved safety through consultation and leadership, and reveals three factors critical to its success.
An employer has cut its injury rate by 20 per cent in a year through a critical risk management program that includes controlling risk controls and "escalation factors".
A national employer has increased hazard and incident reporting, improved communication between employees and leaders and reduced its lost-time injury frequency rate under a three-year safety and wellbeing strategic plan.
Workplace housekeeping is crucial to keeping workers safe, and involves much more than sweeping and removing obstacles, according to a safety expert, who outlines five steps to developing a successful housekeeping program.
An organisation's robust safety management system promotes "living and breathing" safety and has an "enviable safety track record", according to its HSQS manager, who has outlined 10 ways to reduce low-level injuries.
The first step in making leaders accountable for workplace safety is holding focus groups and asking them what the stupidest things they've been told to do are, a recent OHS Alert webinar heard.
PCBUs are being advised to follow seven steps when developing or updating an independent contractor management plan, and to ensure they can provide safety inspectors with proof of their WHS compliance.
Introducing or changing drug and alcohol policies that include testing regimes create both opportunities and challenges for employers, which must consider consultation, privacy and a host of other matters throughout the process, an international law firm says.
