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Know your duties - a tool for working safely
This tool provides information about duties under the model WHS laws, including duties for PCBUs and workers in the agriculture industry, how to meet these duties, and hazards you may face working in agriculture.
23 November 2016 |
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Sickness absence and presenteeism have a direct impact on organisation productivity
Previous research has indicated that Psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and the psychological health outcomes of…
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29 August 2016 |
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Two important aspects of safety climate are management safety empowerment and management safety justice, which are the perceived degree to which employers respectively empower their workers to influence aspects of…
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24 August 2016 |
Statistical reports
This report provides work health and safety statistics for agricultural workers
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24 August 2016 |
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Research has shown that the injury rate for shiftworkers is higher than the injury rate for non-shiftworkers. The aim of this report is to determine whether the elevated risk of shiftwork affects all groups of shiftworkers or only particular groups of…
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24 August 2016 |
Statistical reports
This report provides statistics on workers’ compensation claims that involved musculoskeletal disorders.
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17 August 2016 |
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Recommendation 18 of the 2012 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment report, Workplace Bullying: “We just want it to stop”, requested an annual update of trends in workers’ compensation data relating to psychosocial health…
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11 May 2016 |
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A random, population-based sample of 5,528 Australian workers participated in the Australian Work Exposure Study (AWES). Workers answered questions about the tasks they completed and the controls used at work. Based on their responses to those questions,…
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18 March 2016 |
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Safe Work Australia’s emerging issues surveillance program identifies new priority issues which can affect workers’ health and safety, and undertakes and disseminates research to investigate these. As part of this program, Safe Work Australia…
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02 December 2015 |
Statistical reports
The publication provides a concise and factual statistical profile of mental disorders as compensated by Australian workers’ compensation schemes. It shows statistics on how many Australians are awarded a mental disorder claim each year to allow…
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29 October 2015 |
Statistical reports
The purpose of this 2015 study is to estimate the cost of work-related injury and illness to Australian employers, workers and the community.
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14 October 2015 |
Reports
This paper is one in a series of research papers on the role of accounting in work health and safety governance.
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