Our 2024 rankings of New South Wales' best Workplace Health & Safety Law Firms as voted by the state's clients and employment law community.
The 2019 listing of leading NSW Workplace Health & Safety Law Senior Counsel details Senior and Queens Counsel practising within the areas of workplace health and safety matters (including prosecutions) in the New South Wales legal market who have been identified by the state’s employment and W...
a person who makes, or participates in making, decisions that affect the whole or a substantial part of the business or undertaking of the Crown is taken to be an officer of the Crown (see section 247 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) (WHS Act) a person who ...
New Survey Launched to Improve Workplace Health and Safety in NSW
INTRODUCTIONTOTHEWORKHEALTHANDSAFETYACTIMPLICATIONSFORSENIORMANAGERS/CEOSWHATCHANGES?•AnewWorkHealth&SafetyActwillreplacethecurrentNSWOHSAct•AnewsetofWorkHealth&SafetyRegulationswillreplacethecurrentNSWOHSregulationsTHEKEYCHANGESINSUMMARY•TheconceptoftheemployerwithresponsibilityforWHShasbeenbroadenedbyusingtheterm...
Management of workplace health & safety risks in new disability care arrangements. The NDIS introduces changes to the level of control, choice and flexibility that persons with a disability can exercise over the services they require to s... Stavropoulos,Sofia - 《International Journal of Disability...
As part of the reforms, an Industrial Court will have the power to bring unions and government agencies together at the negotiating table to resolve disputes. Specialised judges will be appointed to hear and resolve workplace health and safety matters and underpayments. As of 18 October, 49 peo...
Late last week the NSW Parliament passed theWork Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2023(Bill). The Bill changes the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 (NSW) (NSW WHS Laws). Many of the changes incorporate recent updates to the national Model WH...
A consolidation of Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation, called harmonisation, has taken place between some but not all of the states. In the area of boilers and pressure vessels, NSW has moved to less prescriptive legislation whereas Queensland appears to be more prescriptive. Despite being...
A CONSOLIDATION OF Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation, called harmonisation,has taken place between some but not all of the states. In the area of boilers and pressurevessels, NSW has moved to less prescriptive legislation whereas Queensland appears tobe more prescriptive. Despite being in ...