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Relevant information and stories about WHS & HR and how it can effect your business.

August 30, 2022 / Shayne

Compliance in Shared Services

Background Shared services compliance arrangements seek to achieve economies of scale by having one provider meet the needs of several organisational units. Centralised provision of compliance systems to geographically spread businesses,

August 1, 2022 / Jaimie Coe

Reviewing Hazards around Plant & Equipment

In the past two months, WorkSafe Victoria has reported four fatalities involving workers who died in separate incidents while working around employer-owned vehicles, particularly company trucks. As the number of worker

July 20, 2022 / Shayne

Online Safety: How to secure your passwords

How many passwords does your business have at the moment? For most people, the answer is too many to remember! In an increasingly digital world, passwords are a necessary evil across

July 1, 2022 / Jaimie Coe

Ten ‘Critical Behaviours’ of Respected Safety Professionals

As a safety professional, one of the most important keys to our success is in how we interact with the teams we support, whether it is operational leadership or the workers

June 20, 2022 / Shayne

Insult to Injury

Sometimes we think that the regulator wouldn’t fine someone who was injured or sole traders but it’s simply not true and here is a great example. In a South Australian prosecution,

March 20, 2022 / Shayne

Company Fined after Worker Struck by Forklift

Australian Lamb (Colac) Pty Ltd has been fined $55,000 without conviction, after a worker was injured in a forklift incident at a Colac abattoir in 2019. The company pleaded guilty to

March 6, 2022 / Shayne

BHP Fined for a Known Risk Injury

BHP Iron Ore Pty Ltd was fined $125,000 on 21 January 2022 after a contractor suffered a lacerated artery from being struck in the neck by a metal shard in September

January 28, 2022 / Shayne

$400k Fine After Worker Crushed to Death

Meat processing company Midfield Meat Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $400,000 over the death of a worker on a property at Dunkeld in 2017. The company was found guilty

November 21, 2021 / user

Inadequate safe work procedures cost company $39,000

Scrap metal business Trading Metals Pty Ltd has received a conviction and been fined $39,000 plus court costs in the Industrial Magistrates Court after a worker’s finger was crushed while he

November 21, 2021 / user

Is Paperless Safety Possible?

In this day and age everyone has a smartphone, we all have access to the internet and technology seems to be everywhere, even my car can talk to me. So why