Employers must have five processes in place to avoid regulatory scrutiny and action around the risk of psychological injuries, a safety inspector has warned.
"Fixing" the individual worker is only half the battle of dealing with work-related stress injuries, a senior scientific officer and expert in human factors and ergonomics has told a Western Australian conference today.
Any vehicle that a worker uses is a "mobile workplace" with associated risks, but many OHS managers wrongly view vehicles as incidental to workers' core roles, the executive director of the Australasian Fleet Management Association says.
Safe Work Australia chair Diane Smith-Gander has outlined five steps to building WHS capability throughout an organisation, ahead of National Safe Work Month in October.
Establishing a post-incident framework where workers feel safe to report bullying and harassment is a vital step to ending bystander silence, a survey report on bullying and discrimination among doctors says.
Two critical home office safety hazards are typically overlooked in take-home risk assessments, exposing workers who work from home to the risk of serious injury, the managing director of a WHS services provider says.
Poor sleep behaviour is often a personal choice and workplace policies should focus on educating workers on sleep hygiene, as well as the short and long-term consequences inadequate sleep can have on them, according to a new report.
A NSW inquiry has made 47 recommendations for improving the health and safety of emergency services workers, but rejected calls to extend mandatory minimum penalties for assaults on workers, or fully endorse compulsory disease testing of assailants.
Line managers aren't doctors and for them to determine workers' fitness for work based on drug and alcohol test results can have serious ramifications, according to an occupational and environmental physician.
