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12 hours, 36 minutes ago Competent safety professionals
Australian worksites have established a system of red, green or blue cards that are used to indicate a level of OHS competence on a range of worksites. This type of ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 1:23 p.m. Wednesday 19th November 2008
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2 days, 10 hours ago The graphic workplace ads keep coming
On 29 October 2008, WorkSafe Alberta released a series of graphic workplace safety ads under the banner “BloodyLucky”. They are as confronting as the recent WorkSafe Victoria ads and raise ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 3:48 p.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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Sexual harassment and occupational health and safety
Some old-time safety professionals are struggling with the inclusion of psychosocial hazards in their safety management programs. Some deny the relevance of sexual harassment to their duties and hope that ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 8:52 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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Important victory for aircraft maintenance workers
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs may have to pay compensation to the maintenance crews of F-111 fighter planes. In the 1970s employees worked within the fuel tanks of the fighters ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 8:17 a.m. Monday 17th November 2008
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5 days, 19 hours ago Dangerous Forklift Behaviour
At the risk of increasing a young person’s infamy, SafetyAtWorkBlog draws your attention to a (former) YouTube video of a young forklift driver misusing a forklift. According to a WorkSafe ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 6:55 a.m. Friday 14th November 2008
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1 week ago The right time to do something, or union shortsightedness
The title of this blog is deliberately positive because I find it hard to understand why, when union right-of-entry is such a hot political topic, a New South Wales Minister ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 2:19 p.m. Wednesday 12th November 2008
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1 week, 1 day ago Mining fatalities and accountability
The 11 November 2008 edition of The Australian includes a page 2 story where the previous manager of the Beaconsfield Mine has been called on to be held responsible for ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 8:47 a.m. Tuesday 11th November 2008
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1 week, 2 days ago Maintaining professional standards by looking outside the discipline
I am a great believer that solutions to hazards in one industry can be applied or adapted to other industry sectors. Regular readers of SafetyAtWorkBlog are aware of the cross-referencing ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 10:37 a.m. Monday 10th November 2008
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1 week, 5 days ago Legal summary on OHS Review report from Mallesons
Mallesons is the next Australian OHS law firm to issue a statement on the first report by the National OHS Law Review panel. The report is not much more than ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 9:21 p.m. Friday 7th November 2008
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Statements on Australia’s OHS review report
According to today’s The Australian, Australian trade unions has “panned” the first report by the National OHS Law Review. Here is what the ACTU Assistant Secretary Geoff Fary said, “We ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 1:16 p.m. Friday 7th November 2008
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Advertising safety
SafetyAtWorkBlog has received some terrific comments on the various marketing strategies for addressing the safety of young people at work and in their private (public) lives. A colleague of mine ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 11:14 a.m. Friday 7th November 2008
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1 week, 6 days ago Safety professionals should be the “child in the crowd”
One of Hans Christian Anderson’s most popular tales is The Emperor’s New Clothes. For those unfamiliar with the story an English translation is available. But in summary, an emperor hires ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 3:50 p.m. Thursday 6th November 2008
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National OHS Law Review - First Report released
The first report of the National OHS Law Review panel was presented to the Australian Government yesterday. The best initial assessment of the report can be found at a safety ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 1:07 p.m. Thursday 6th November 2008
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2 weeks ago Marketing to teenagers and youth
SafetyAtWorkBlog has mentioned several campaigns recently focusing on promoting safety to young people through graphic ads in Australia and Canada, and enticing websites. The Queensland Government launched a promotional campaign ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 5:02 p.m. Wednesday 5th November 2008
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Young Worker Safety - Part 3
Several colleagues have pointed to a young worker safety website that was established in Canada several years ago, http://www.notworthit.ca/ . The site, part of the WCB’s Young Worker campaign, won ...
SafetyAtWorkBlog - 12:06 p.m. Wednesday 5th November 2008
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