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.
Successfully implementing safety technologies like artificial intelligence surveillance requires employers to overcome the mistrust of workers who believe it will be misused by managers, Australia Post's safety and wellbeing general manager says of his organisation's experience.
Workplace safety incidents involving particularly concerning behaviour, or new or emerging risks, are likely to trigger the push for additional WHS orders against prosecuted PCBUs, the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work has heard.
"Every single" incident of workplace harm is preventable and "a great deal of liability" circles company leaders who fail to proactively address safety issues, the head of a WHS regulator has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work.
Workplace safety is not a "grey area" and needs to be practised until it becomes the culture, workplace injury survivor and safety advocate Candace Carnahan has told the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, in Sydney.
At the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, which kicked off in Sydney today, the International Labour Organisation will announce a new strategy to accelerate health and safety progress. The ILO warns that work-related accidents and diseases are causing the deaths of nearly three million workers each year.
Importers, manufacturers, logistics service providers and many others types of companies, as well as their officers, have a duty to ensure containers are transported safely on Australian roads and to prevent rollover incidents, the risk of which is increasing with the surge in consumer-driven freight activity, a senior transport lawyer says.
A major company and a state government are among the latest entities to formerly commit to phasing out silicosis-causing engineered stone and implementing a WHS ban on the substance.
