The Safety Dilemma for NFPs

This is the first in a series of articles by RAISE-DM to help smaller organisations understand their WHS obligations. For further information please contact Amanda Karpeles on LinkedIn or email admin@RaiseDM.com.au How NFPs can ensure staff are safe when working away, entering client homes, or travelling at irregular hours Australian charities and other not-for-profits have a …

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Workplace health and safety and the importance of the hierarchy of controls

Why was the Hierarchy of Controls created? Injury and illness have remained stubbornly resistant to the expensive and structured endeavours directed to overcome this costly and complicated problem. These costs include the enormous pressures on business, the community and workers both in recurrent injuries and in the systems that attempt to overcome them. After early …

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When does Domestic and Family Violence become Violence at work

Safe Work Australia has summarised that bullying and violence in the workplace directly affects a worker’s psychological and physical health. Their infographic is a useful resource and shows that: One in three women who claim for a mental disorder stated it involved harassment or bullying One in five men who claim for a mental disorder …

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