Health and Safety Committees

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must establish a health and safety committee (HSC) within two months of being requested to do so by a health and safety…

As an employer or person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), you are required by work health and safety (WHS) legislation to provide your workers with: Induction to your workplace…

A safe workplace is more easily achieved when ‘persons conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBUs) and workers communicate with each other about WHS issues, and work together to find solutions.…

Some workplaces may need a mix of HSRs, HSCs and / or other consultation arrangements tailored to suit the workers and the work environment. It may be more effective and…

There are a number of reasons why you may decide to use video surveillance at your workplace, including to: discourage criminal activity provide extra security ensure the safety of your…

How To Ensure Workers Are Competent To Safely Perform Tasks To demonstrate that you have a safe system of work, you must first be able to prove that all of…

A Brisbane director has been sentenced to one year in jail, and fined $1 million, in a Queensland-first Workplace Health and Safety trial. Yesterday Gary Lavin, and his company Multi-Run…

Now is the time to complete your annual AUSTRAC compliance report for 2018. The compliance report asks questions about how you have met your anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF)…

Two in five women, and one in four men report being sexually harassed at work since 2013, according to recent findings. Sexual harassment in the workplace has increased considerably in…

While workplace injuries and deaths are decreasing, more compensation claims for mental health issues are being made. The economic cost of work-related injury and disease has been estimated by Safe…