Monthly Archives: November 2016

Monthly Archives: November 2016

18/11

Health and Safety Penalties for Workplace Injuries: UK vs Australia

When a worker was killed on a building site in the UK, the company was fined £2.6 million early this year under tough new UK laws, but if the same worker had died in Australia, the fine may have been just $170,000. The UK government believes heavier health and safety penalties can reduce fatalities and…
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11/11

New Victorian OHS Regulations Coming Next Year

The Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 will replace the regulations that have been in operation in Victoria since 2007 and are due to expire next year. New workplace health and safety regulations are currently being made in Victoria. They will come into operation in July next year. The Victorian Occupational Health and Safety…
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11/11

Feel good at work and be happier and live longer

Employee wellbeing revolves around five pillars of work and life, advisory firm EY’s executive director Louise Rolland says. Without them productivity falls dramatically and can affect everything from happiness to life expectancy. Rolland, a former professor of Work and Ageing at Swinburne University, has spent decades researching wellbeing, productivity and the impacts on the workforce…
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04/11

Workplace safety figures improve as WorkSafe month wraps up

While WorkSafe Month is about to wrap up, it’s important that we continue to focus on workplace safety and make it part of our everyday lives. While the number of workplace injuries have decreased by 25 per cent over the last decade, from 10,244 injuries recorded in 2005 to 7,644 recorded in 2015, there is…
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