Employers should ban the taking of photographs - for use on social media - at end-of-year work functions to mitigate the risk of bullying complaints, a WHS lawyer says. Meanwhile, a regulator has urged employers to carefully plan tasks during the notoriously hazardous pre-Christmas rush.
Employers have been urged to prioritise higher order controls over administrative controls like safety zones, and use a "fresh pair of eyes", to tackle the growing risk of potentially fatal falling objects.
A leading OHS lawyer has outlined six "golden rules" for ensuring compliance with both safety and anti-discrimination laws when managing workers who might have a mental illness.
An employer has been fined after an employee, who hadn't been trained to identify the difference between safe and unsafe work areas, was seriously injured. Meanwhile, a regulator has issued a workplace cyclone warning, in light of an alarming forecast for the coming tropical cyclone season.
A survey of resources employers has found that convincing workers to "make sensible lifestyle choices" is a major challenge to mitigating the impact of drugs and alcohol on the workplace.
Safe occupational exposure limits for carcinogenic diesel motor exhaust are far lower than common exposures, and can't be achieved by "older technology" diesel engines, a European quantitative risk assessment has found.
Australian employers are being urged to review their social media policies for customer feedback, after a Canadian judge found the Toronto Transit Commission failed to protect employees from abusive tweets.
The Cancer Council is using National Safe Work Month to warn of the risks associated with diesel-fuelled machinery, after finding exposure to diesel fumes is Australia's second-most prevalent work-related cancer-causing agent.
