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Are the officers of a PCBU required - under s27(5)(a) of the model WHS Act - to be aware of a study on hazards relating to their industry that is published in a Russian or a Brazilian journal?
Workers will be free to make offensive remarks about their co-workers' favourite football teams, under a Government plan to remove a provision of its anti-discrimination Bill that could have restricted free speech. Also in this article, safety alerts have been issued after two workplace explosions and a fatality.
WorkCover to target pre-use inspections in wake of UTS crane collapse; New WA drilling safety code released; and Queensland inspectorates issue safety alerts.
PCBUs should identify all workers responsible for gathering and analysing safety information - as required by the model WHS Act - and clarify the role in job descriptions, according to OHS lawyer Barry Sherriff.
Draft discrim laws make it too easy for employers to be sued, says ACCI; and Essential safety news from NSW, Comcare, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria.
Employers that take steps to identify the safest vehicle for a particular task are unlikely, in the majority of cases, to select a quad bike, the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety has said on the release of a quad-bike-fatality report.
Harmonised WHS Acts have commenced in South Australia and Tasmania, while in other jurisdictions new Codes of Practice have taken effect, and some transitional arrangements have expired or been extended.
Thirty of the world's leading experts on quad bike safety will meet in Sydney this week to discuss the viability of safety devices on the machines, while a research body has slammed claims that crush-protection devices on quad bikes are more dangerous than safe.
