Safe Work Australia has launched an occupational lung disease awareness campaign which will run until December 2021. Safe Work Australia Chief Executive Officer Michelle Baxter said the Clean Air...
Tag - occupational health and safety
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has released a report that benchmarks the 2020 safety performance of its members. ICMM members have an unwavering commitment to the health and...
A prison sentence recently handed down to a company director in the Magistrates Court serves as a timely reminder that regulators are willing to seek, and courts are increasingly willing to impose...
A new ISO document for occupational health and safety metrics has just been published. Some 2.78 million people die as a result of work-related accidents or illness each year, on top of the hundreds...
Working long hours—particularly 46 hours per week or more—may increase the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events such as heart attack, reports a study in the March Journal of...
Written by Daniel Hummerdal Safety audits have become central to safety management and governance. However, many organisations have noted that safety audits may have limited usefulness and some...
The Safety Institute of Australia and the Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board, together with the Institution of Chemical Engineers Safety Centre, have announced a joint project to develop a...
The International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO) launched the Global Capability Framework for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals at the Fluoro Conference...
SAFETY DIFFERENTLY Professor, author and pilot Sidney Dekker talks safety from 30,000ft, “overparenting” in the mining industry, and how one Australian mine has scrapped all safety procedures in a...
The Department of Mines and Petroleum have urged health and safety professionals to participate in university research studies. “Safety and health representatives make a major contribution to...
