PCBU Obligations and their impact on the workplace

PCBU Obligations and their impact on the workplace

Work health and safety (WHS) is a very important topic of conversation among senior managers in all companies across Australia today. Management clearly has a responsibility to ensure that all employees can enjoy working in a safe and healthy environment at all times....
Creating a Safe Workplace – Step 1

Creating a Safe Workplace – Step 1

Developing an effective workplace safety plan If you are determined to improve your workplace safety record, the first thing you need to do is create an effective workplace safety plan. Such a plan should enumerate all of the primary risks that your organisation needs...
Duty of care

Duty of care

As an employer you have the main responsibility to provide, as far as reasonably practicable, a safe working environment for all workers, this is termed “Duty of Care” within the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2020 WA). How do you as an employer, ensure the workplace...
Removing unnecessary layers of safety

Removing unnecessary layers of safety

Making it easier to implement The past principles and practices of safety management have served us really well and they will continue to do so, particularly for simple tasks where individuals or small groups are carrying out things where the risks are well-known and...
How to Combat Workplace Fatigue

How to Combat Workplace Fatigue

It’s the elephant in the room at every workplace, so much so that the World Health Organization has officially named burnout — a close cousin of workplace fatigue — as a medical diagnosis. Industrial workers are not immune from this phenomenon either. In fact,...