In support of Australia’s Safe Work Month, I have recorded a 12-minute opinion piece on how Australian politics since 2010 has affected the perception and development of …
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Prominent occupational health and safety (OHS) lawyers Dale McQualter and Catherine Dunlop have just concluded the first of two online seminars about Victoria’s new psychological/psychosocial regulations and …
Occupational health and safety (OHS) can feel like nothing but administrative work, wading through safety clutter. It is easy to forget that OHS is about preventing harm …
Australian occupational health and safety (OHS) laws require employers to be compliant with their OHS duties, but also allow the flexibility for employers to determine their own …
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Holding Space for the Ridiculous in Workplace Health and Safety – SafetyAtWorkBlog
by David Walker
One of the most divisive speakers at last week’s Research Summit organised by Safe Work Australia was futurist Reanna Browne. Some delegates found her approach to research …
Safety & Security
Audio summary of Regulation, Free markets and OHS – SafetyAtWorkBlog
by David Walker
Join me in a discussion of themes in the second edition of Arie Freiberg’s book, “Regulation in Australia.” This short audio report explores the reasons behind regulation, market failures, and …
There are several ways to write about Safe Work Australia’s recent Research Summit. This is the first article and will discuss a couple of features of the …
In this short 6-minute audio episode, I unpack the troubling case of Cleanaway Waste Management’s CEO bonus reduction following three worker deaths and challenge the notion that …
In the next short audio episode, I discuss the myth of “reasonably practicable” within occupational health and safety (OHS) and the moral implications it carries. Safety is …
For those of you who follow my blog posts but are not prepared to pay a SafetyAtWorkBlog subscription (you know who you are 😁), I have produced a daily audio …