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Who pays form PPE clothing

An employer as the controller of a workplace, it is their responsibility to provide personal protective equipment to employees, in order to protect the workers’ health and safety for the employer.

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22 June, 2022
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Fines and serious injury from not taking safety precautions

In South Australia , a sole trader was prosecuted $33,000 and had suffered burns as a result of his mistake in incorrectly using propane gas .

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29 May, 2022
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Make Workplace Safety More Fun

Many traditional safety programs focus on metrics like recordable incident rates, and they approach safety from a reactive state of mind.

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15 June, 2022
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Workplace Harrassment and the consequences for the business

The necessity to stamp out harassment in the workplace made the press again recently with a report in ABC News about allegations of an unsafe working environment at Latrobe City Council.

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22 May, 2022
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Lack of protection and processes

On 6 October 2020, a third-year apprentice worker employed by Watkins Steel was cutting the flange off a section of steel universal beam using a grinder. Once that task was completed, he commenced cleaning mill scale from the end of the beam.

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15 May, 2022
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The risks of fatigue

Under health and safety legislation, you have an obligation to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the safety of your workers. Therefore, causing or permitting workers to perform work in a fatigued state could expose you to liability for breaching.

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05 June, 2022
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