We are increasingly seeing employers in industries with heavy union saturation complain of the psychosocial hazards that can result from antisocial and belligerent union behaviour. Those hazards need to be identified and managed like other hazards in the workplace.
Case Study: Employee Organisations and Psychosocial Hazards Read More »
Victoria set to legislate two days’ working from home
World First Working From Home laws proposed in Vic Read More »
The Illawarra Turf Club Ltd has been convicted and fined $200,000 in the District Court of NSW as a result of a prosecution by SafeWork NSW.
Turf Club fined $200,000 after worker falls from roof Read More »
A roofing company has been convicted and fined after repeatedly putting workers at risk of falls on four residential construction sites in Melbourne.
$700,000 in fines for string of working at height offences Read More »
A Katrine farm owner has been fined $22,000 (and ordered to pay $4861 in costs) over unsafe controls on a wool press.
Farm owner fined $22,000 over unsafe machinery Read More »
WorkSafe is helping Victorian employers to lift safety standards and reduce preventable injuries by offering free online workshops focused on hazardous manual handling.
Take the strain out of manual handling Read More »
Every farmer deserves to come home safely at the end of the day – and a safer farm is a stronger business.
Keeping Victorian Farmers Safe Read More »
A roofing company has been convicted and fined after repeatedly putting workers at risk of falls on four residential construction sites in Melbourne.
$700,000 in fines for string of working at height offences Read More »
The bill will ensure that all work demands must be safe, whether they come from a human or come through artificial intelligence (AI) or algorithms.
A digital work safety bill passed the NSW Parliament Read More »
Safe Work Australia has released an independent research report conducted by Monash University, Research examining pathways to secondary psychological injury.
New research examines pathways to secondary psychological injury Read More »
Victorian employers with apprentices are warned there are serious consequences for failing to protect their health and safety.
Employers urged to do more to protect apprentices Read More »
Australian Unions are calling for new national safety rules that require employers to stop work or modify duties when temperatures reach dangerous levels, warning that increasingly frequent heatwaves driven by climate change now pose a major workplace health and safety threat.
Extreme heat is killing workers: Unions urge national rules to save lives Read More »
The recent sentencing of a Commonwealth government department (Department) for failing to manage psychosocial risks arising during performance management processes is a defining moment for Australian workplaces.
When Performance Management Becomes a Psychosocial Hazard Read More »
Victorian employers who ignore their health and safety obligations continue to face serious legal and financial consequences, with WorkSafe completing 137 prosecutions and enforceable undertakings last year.
More than $17 million in penalties for unsafe work in 2025 Read More »
New requirements apply to businesses with workers exposed to hazardous noise from 1 January 2026.
Hearing test requirements for NSW workers Read More »
