Safety + Injury Management Blog

Chemical use in the workplace can be a health or safety hazard if not handled or stored correctly. Safely managing the chemicals in your workplace is good for your business and it is good for your...

Many Australians underestimate the prevalence and detrimental effects of bullying and harassment in the workplace. What many employers don’t realise is that workers affected by these problems usually...

Today, the benefits of having reliable return to work programs in an organisation cannot be understated. Getting workers back to work quickly after an injury may have a positive injury on their...

A Task Analysis (or a job breakdown) is simply the reduction of a complex job into its individual tasks accompanied by step by step procedures for accomplishing each task. A detailed breakdown of...

 Sound and noise are interchangable terms, sound being what we hear as a result of vibrations travelling though the air and noise is commonly defined as unwanted sound.

When workers or other people...

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) measures the “loss of shift work wherein any job site injury results in the associated employee missing out on one shift.”  It is believed to indicate...

Employers have a duty to intervene if it is found that an employee’s obesity is putting his or her health and safety at risk. However, you cannot go about doing this without understanding all of...

The efficacy of exercise in treating cancer related fatigue

What is Outsourcing?

A business is outsourcing when it delegates work to a third party.  When work is outsourced, the people performing it are not direct employees of the company.

Outsourcing can...