Have you updated your workplace health and safety policies and documents with the new laws?
On 1 January 2012, largely harmonised work health and safety legislation was introduced in New South Wales, Queensland and the Territories. The remainder of the States are expected to introduce similar legislation later in 2012.
One of the key changes introduced by the work health and safety legislation was the inclusion of the definition of ‘reasonably practicable’ into the legislation. In addition, the scope of the legislation is broad, imposing duties on a person that conducts a business or undertaking (PCBU) to ensure that the health and safety of other persons is not put at risk from work carried out as part of the conduct of the business or undertaking. For more information please read the article in our last newsletter.
Your HRmanager has an updated compliant WHS Policy in our Online Document Library as well as a range of other related WHS documents for use with your employees. If you're not a current subscriber, simply contact us to find at how.