Category: Workplace

s part of the Focus on Industry Program, WorkCover NSW is working with industries that face the highest risks in work health and safety and return to work after an injury or illness. The wood product manufacturing industry is one of those high-risk industries. This industry action plan outlines a number of issues that contribute to injuries, illnesses and delayed return to work in the wood manufacturing industry. It also outlines how WorkCover is working with its industry partners to address health and safety issues in the industry. Catalogue Number: WC03949 ISBN: 978 1 74341 319 7 Wood products...

In order to understand the workplace health and safety requirements for workplace harassment, and your obligations under the law you must consider and understand relevant legislation and codes of practice. What law applies Legal obligations, legislation, advisory standards What is workplace harassment? Definition of what is and what is not workplace harassment Signs of workplace harassment Some ways of how to identify if workplace harassment is happening in your workplace How to prevent workplace harassment Workplace harassment prevention policy, complaint handling system, human resource systems, training and education Resolving workplace harassment complaints Internal and external resolution, how compaints can be...

Volunteers work without being paid a wage or salary. Volunteers participate in many areas of society, including community health care, heritage and arts, environment and conservation, emergency services, education, social justice and sports. They perform an essential range of activities, from providing support services to coaching and mentoring, and from collecting donations to serving as volunteer directors. Volunteer associations A volunteer association is a group of volunteers working together for one or more community purposes that may be incorporated or unincorporated and does not  employ any ‘workers’. Volunteer associations without paid workers do not have work health and safety (WHS) duties for their volunteers under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) as...

The Work-related injuries and fatalities on Australian farms report released by Safe Work Australia today has found one in six workers killed in Australia were working on a farm. The report monitored statistics over an eight year period until 30 June 2011. While only 3 percent of workers are employed in the agriculture sector, on average 44 farm workers are killed each year and another 17 400 suffer a work-related injury. Other key findings from the report include: Vehicles accounted for nearly three quarters of work-related fatalities on farms. In the eight years of the study 93 workers died while using...