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On January 1, 2014, South Australia will be the latest in 2013 and the first in 2014 to enforce its harmonised workplace health and safety laws.
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Taking Advantage of Safety Management Systems to Promote Business Continuity
There are critical dangers in the organisation that are huge enough to strike a blow to the most critical resources of the company -- and that is when a serious work incident happens in the workplace. The real identifier of the resilience of the business is on the efficiency of the organisation's work health and safety management systems or WHSMS collaborating with proper Business Continuity Management or BCM.
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The Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was created by Work Health and Safety (WHS) to constitute a standard of chemical classification and hazard communication. It was also mandated to gradually replace the current systems for classifying the hazards of workplace chemicals and thus standardise the presentation of hazard information on labelling.
Topics: Blog, Safe Systems of Work
Australian wharfies were said to be 14 times more likely to be killed in work than any average Australian labourer. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has lobbied for a National Stevedoring Code of Practice to prevent the waterfront fatalities during the recent years and it is high time to make changes to save other future workers' lives.
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