Amendments to Work Health and Safety Laws in Queensland Now in EffectSandona, Hannah
Dennis Jones Engineering Pty Ltd (DJE) and its sole director, Dennis Jones, were recently fined $2,100,000 and $140,000 respectively in Victoria’s County Court for breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act).
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An evaluation of occupational health and safety educational interventions in Queensland workplaces under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995Vanderkruk, Roslyn Joy
In comparison to other health issues (e.g., obstructive sleep apnoea), WRMSDs have a tendency to be treated as a less significant issue, even though they reduce worker health and wellbeing which invariably impacts public safety. They also tend to be treated as a local/individual health issue...
Working in caseload midwifery care: the experience of midwives working in a birth centre in North Queensland Women Birth, 27 (1) (2014), pp. 31-36 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 36 M.S. Newton, H.L. McLachlan, K.F. Willis, D.A. Forster Are caseload midwives more satisfied and less ...
WorkplaceHealthandSafetyRegulation1997 TheRegulationtellsushowthelawistobeimplementedandadministeredinQueensland WorkplaceHealthandSafetyAct1995 TheobjectiveoftheActistopreventaperson’sdeath,injuryorillnessbeingcausedbyaworkplace,byworkplaceactivitiesorbyspecifiedhigh-riskplant UndertheActweallhaveobligationstoensure...
Last month I delivered a‘grand challenge’ public lectureat Queensland University of Technology. The Institute for Future Environments hosts these lectures, which, as you’d expect, are all about the big challenges facing humanity, from feeding the world’s booming population to managing scarce nat...
Lets say you were living in Brisbane, some Queensland festivals you could attend are Myriad (tech conference) or Laneway Festival (music festival). 5. Accessibility to public transit and/or freeways In Australian major cities, the further you live from a train station, tram route or bus ...
Higher and lower levels of alertness typically lead to a leftward and rightward bias in attention, respectively. This relationship between alertness and spatial attention potentially has major implications for health and safety. The current study examined alertness and spatial attention under simulated sh...