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An employer has successfully argued that its field-based employees, who are all required to hold a first-aid certificate, are expected to use those skills if needed without attracting the allowance that "appointed" first aiders are entitled to.
In an Australian first, the Victorian Government has introduced a 476-page Bill creating an OHS-style general duty to protect human health and the environment from pollution and waste, with maximum penalties of $3.2 million and five years' jail.
An appeals court has rejected an employer's claim that a facility maintenance contractor's failure to fix a path that became hazardous during wet weather made the contractor liable for a worker's injuries.
Most company executives reject Professor Patrick Hudson's claim that 10 per cent of their annual turnover is wasted on poor safety and environment performance, until he asks them to produce data to the contrary, the international safety expert has told a Safe Work Australia seminar.
PCBUs are being told to eliminate, where practicable, the need to enter or even work near confined spaces that might contain hazardous substances, after a recent double fatality. Meanwhile, health monitoring rules have been extended in a hazardous industry in NSW, and a Paralympian has urged workers to speak up about unsafe situations.
Safe Work Australia has released its much-anticipated national guidance on work-related psychological health and safety, which outlines how to identify psychosocial hazards and eliminate or minimise them through the hierarchy of controls.
