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Worksafe Victoria’s new gendered violence campaign

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WorkSafe Victoria has actively campaigned against occupational violence for the last few years. The pandemic, understandably, brought the focus onto violence against emergency services workers and healthcare staff. Recently the campaign has focussed on gendered violence at work. The intention is to be inclusive, to address the variety of violent acts and the variety of … Continue reading "Worksafe Victoria’s new gendered violence campaign"

Evidence provided for structural change in construction safety management

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In July 2022, RMIT University release a three-part series on physical and mental health in Australia’s construction industry consisting of Evidence, Exploration and Evaluation. By themselves, they make a strong case for structural reform of the construction sector to improve workers’ mental and physical health. Australia is undergoing a boom in project-based construction work. Many … Continue reading "Evidence provided for structural change in construction safety management"

Lymph v Blood – OHS at the Jobs & Skills Summit

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If Industrial Relations is the lifeblood of the economy and the nation, then Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is the lymphatic system, a less well-known supplementary system without which blood circulation fails and the body stops working. Australia’s Job and Skills Summit that has just concluded focused on the blood. Media analysis offered mixed interpretations. … Continue reading "Lymph v Blood – OHS at the Jobs & Skills Summit"

Is Safety Leadership for everyone or just the executives?

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At last week’s Asia Pacific Occupational Safety and Health Organisation conference, I bumped into Jen Jackson, a young creative thinker on occupational health and safety (OHS) and the author of “How to Speak Human”. We had a quick chat about OHS leadership and gender issues. Below is an edited transcript with a link to the … Continue reading "Is Safety Leadership for everyone or just the executives?"

OHS and the weekend newspapers – 1

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This is the first of, hopefully, many articles about what some of the weekend newspapers and media say about issues related to occupy national health and safety (OHS). It will not be comprehensive but short takes on what I see in the newspapers. [Note, the article below mentions suicide and workplace bullying] Workload and Suicide … Continue reading "OHS and the weekend newspapers – 1"

“occupational health is distinct from safety”

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Professors Helen Lingard and Michelle Turner have just published a book that was long in development called “Work, Health and Wellbeing in the Construction Industry“. The best advice for reading this book is, for most readers, to ignore the construction context. This book is extremely topical for all industries in Australia as it considers gender, … Continue reading "“occupational health is distinct from safety”"

“..what it means to act like a man and what it means to work safely..”

Making Noise – Asian migrant workers

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Racism is a word increasingly thrown around these days, the most current incarnation being in the controversy surrounding whether or not to allow Australia’s indigenous peoples a formalised Voice to Parliament. Unfortunately, Australia has no patent on this illogical and offensive tendency. In Asia, it is often aimed at other Asian races of what is … Continue reading "Making Noise – Asian migrant workers"

Effective safety signs

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Safety signs can be a mix of symbols, colours and words. On a recent vacation in the United Kingdom, I saw a configuration of pedestrian crossing signs that challenged my interpretation of signs I had seen since I was a child. I wondered if this new configuration still communicated the essential safety message. In 2016, … Continue reading "Effective safety signs"

“Backbone of the Nation” and safety

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In 1984 I was in England during the miners’ strike, a period of profound social and political change in the United Kingdom. The politics of that period have always fascinated me, but my profession has also caused me to look at some of the attitudes to occupational health and safety (OHS). While holidaying recently in … Continue reading "“Backbone of the Nation” and safety"




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