Dealing With Stress Programs Stress comes in many forms, sometimes positive and useful for peak performance and sometimes counterproductive when built up over a period of time. Stress shows up as higher absenteeism, higher workcover claims, poor performance, bullying...
The Cancer Council estimated that around 7,000 new cases of cancer in Australia each year are caused by exposure to carcinogens in the workplace. The report estimates that as many as 1.5 million Australian workers, engaged in 51 different industries, may be exposed to...
As summer temperatures soar around the country, Worksafe Victoria shares some advice about how to prevent heat illness from working outdoors in hot weather or where heat is generated as part of work. With temperatures predicted to reach above 40 degrees Celsius across...
Sometimes it takes the ridiculous to remind us how our behaviours and safety standards can be in complete contrast from one environment to the next. In this classic slap-stick Disney cartoon from 1956, J. J. Fate follows Donald Duck through his workday, contrasting...
A recently published Canadian study by the Journal of Safety Research showed that young people considered their supervisors one of the barriers to injury prevention and reporting. The study titled Waiting for Safety: Responses By Young Canadian Workers To Unsafe...
According to Safe Work Australia’s ‘Key Workers’ Compensation Information Australia 2013 Report’*, in the year 2010-11 there were 127,330 serious workers’ compensation claims involving one or more weeks of time lost from work, a permanent incapacity...
