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This paper uses the findings from two workshops conducted with 77 employees of an underground mining operation in Western Australia in April and May 2011. Risk management requires all managers and employees to identify hazards in their work environments. Managers assume that their employees have sufficient knowledge and skills to successfully identify not only obvious but also emerging hazards. For this study, two workshops were conducted using an action research methodology. In the first workshop, “Hazard Identification” it was found that the range of workplace hazards the staff could...
The Work-related injuries and fatalities on Australian farms report released by Safe Work Australia today has found one in six workers killed in Australia were working on a farm. The report monitored statistics over an eight year period until 30 June 2011. While only 3 percent of workers are employed in the agriculture sector, on average 44 farm workers are killed each year and another 17 400 suffer a work-related injury. Other key findings from the report include: • Vehicles accounted for nearly three quarters of work-related fatalities on farms. o In the eight years of the study 93 workers...
This Approved Code of Practice (the Code) has been prepared by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in conjunction with representatives of the industries and stakeholders concerned. Its purpose is to support the requirements of the Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995 in relation to load-lifting rigging activities. It contains a number of diagrams and tables that are essential for safe load-lifting rigging work and chain/strop maintenance. The Code provides recommendations and procedures for safe practice while carrying out lifting and rigging work in industry. In an...
New laws to improve worker participation in health and safety matters and toughen up directors' duties should be given early attention, according to an official report into the Pike River mining tragedy in New Zealand two years ago. The Pike River coal mine, which lies on the west coast of the South Island, exploded on 19 November 2010, due to the ignition of a large volume of methane gas. Twenty-nine men underground died immediately, or soon afterwards, either from the blast or from the toxic atmosphere. Over the next nine days the mine exploded three more times before it was sealed. The Royal...
The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 has been published by Safe Work Australia. The strategy provides a framework to drive improvements in work health and safety and is aimed at governments, work health and safety regulators, industry, unions and other organisations that influence work health and safety in workplaces across Australia. The strategy sets four outcomes to be achieved by 2022: •reduced incidence of work-related death, injury and illness; •reduced exposure to hazards and risks; •improved hazard controls; •improved work health and safety infrastructure...
The Australian Government is setting up an Office of Asbestos Safety that will pave the way for a national approach to asbestos awareness and management in Australia, said Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten. This in response to the comprehensive Asbestos Management Review commissioned in October 2010. The new office will be tasked with developing a national strategic plan as recommended by the Review, by 1 July 2013, Shorten said. Source : http://www.safetysolutions.net.au/articles/55641?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ss_1209_1&utm_content=ss_1209_1+CID_678745100d5bf5c2f3e37860a834b56c&utm_source...
Workplace Health and Safety Strategy for New Zealand to 2015 Making a real and sustained reduction in the amount of injury, disease and death in a particular industry is no mean feat – especially when you're talking about one as diverse and complex as agriculture. For a general description of the industry, see Appendix 1. Agricultural work involves a variety of hazards, and countries all over the world have tried to reduce the persistently high rates of fatality, disease and injury that can result. The agriculture sector has one of the highest levels of workplace injury, disease and fatalities...
This Action Agenda focuses on the five sectors with consistently high levels of injuries and fatalities – construction, agriculture, forestry, manufacturing and fishing. It sets out health and safety priorities for the next 3 years at both a sector and a national level. Actions will be delivered through partnerships with industry leaders and worker representatives. Source : http://www.dol.govt.nz/whss/action-agenda/index.asp
The Safe Work Australia report is published to inform Parliament, ministers, governments and the community about our performance in delivering improvements to key work health and safety and workers' compensation arrangements across Australia. Source : http://safeworkaustralia.gov.au/AboutSafeWorkAustralia/WhatWeDo/Publications/Documents/558/SafeWorkAustraliaAnnualReport0910.pdf
Leading CEOs discuss their views on OHS transformation Australia has reached a crossroads in its performance in occupational health and safety (OHS). As part of its desire to explore future directions for OHS performance, Peter Wagner & Associates carried out interviewed-based qualitative research with a selection of chief and senior executives of large Australian companies, government-related organisations, safety regulators, the Safety Institute of Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the investment community. Source: http...
Model work health and safety Act In 2008, the Commonwealth, state and territory governments signed an inter-governmental agreement (IGA) to harmonise workplace health and safety laws by the end of 2011. Safe Work Australia is responsible for developing a national model work health and safety Act with the assistance of the Commonwealth, states and territories and representatives of unions and employer associations. The model legislation will consist of a principal work health and safety Act, supported by model regulations and codes of practice that will be adopted in each jurisdiction. Source :...
The Australian Government has identified occupational health and safety (OHS) as a priority area for reform. One of the key elements of the OHS reform agenda is harmonisation – moving towards one set of national OHS laws. The harmonisation of OHS legislation aims to reduce the incidence of workplace death, injury and disease right across Australia. Currently all states and territories are responsible for making and enforcing their own OHS laws. Although these draw on a similar approach for regulating workplaces, there are some differences in the application and detail of the laws. Safe Work...
This snapshot sets out the highlights of the year, demonstrating the breadth of activities that have taken place under the umbrella of the Strategy. Progress has been made in all three outcome areas – government leadership and practices, preventive workplace cultures, and industry leadership and community engagement. Source : http://www.whss.govt.nz/snapshot08-09/WHSS-Strategy-snapshot08-09.pdf
The best OHS advice, or rather innovative thinking, is frequently coming from those experts from outside the traditional OHS background. A case in point could be a presentation made by prominent Australian demographer, Bernard Salt, at one of the many Safe Work Australia Week events in South Australia. Salt provided enough information about population changes that OHS professionals and regulators became uneasy about many of the challenges that they will face in the next few decades. Source: http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-demographic-challenges-facing-ohs-management/
Implications for occupational health and safety : Report to the Minister of Labour http://www.nohsac.govt.nz/documents/EvolvingWork%14ReporttotheMinister.pdf
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