Victorian employers are no longer required to notify WorkSafe if an employee, a contractor or a contractor’s employee receives a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and attended the workplace within the infectious period. The Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Revocation Regulations 2022 revoke regulations that commenced in 2020 and were renewed in July last year.Read more
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Victorian employers are no longer required to notify WorkSafe if an employee, a contractor or a contractor’s employee receives a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and attended the workplace within the infectious period. The Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Revocation Regulations 2022 revoke regulations that commenced in 2020 and were renewed in July last year.Read more
In Australia, the recent Omicron outbreak has delayed the return-to-office plans for many businesses. As such, employers are once again being reminded of the physical risks associated with telework and how best to prevent them in a recent study. Public health researches from Kobe University in Japan studied 1,000 workers as they switched to teleworkRead more
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says it has significant concerns over the retail price of rapid antigen tests (RATs), considering wholesale costs are much lower. The ACCC said the wholesale cost of a single RAT test ranges between $3.95 and $11.45. Despite this, the retail price often between $20-30 per test and canRead more
Australia’s national association for workplace health and safety professionals has called on national leaders to provide better guidance to businesses to keep workers safe and healthy, and for the Federal Government to provide access to Rapid Antigen Testing for workers. AIHS CEO David Clarke said “Over the last 12 months commentary and policy related toRead more
Safe Work Australia has developed a fact sheet on the risks of solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure at work. Raising awareness of the dangers of UVR for anyone who works outside is important, given the high rate of skin cancer in Australia. Around two in three Australians will be diagnosed with some form of skinRead more
Australian employers have been put on notice by a group of more than 30 unions to escalate their COVID-19 safety measures, who threatened to take action against any workplace that fails to do so. Leaders from national unions met to discuss the ongoing health and economic crisis caused by the rapid spread of Omicron, demandingRead more
A new framework for improving worker health and well-being while maintaining or enhancing employee engagement and productivity, has been released by researchers. The “Work Design for Health” framework—developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and MIT Sloan School of Management researchers—maps how to create work environments that foster worker health and well-being. It explains whyRead more
The Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) has released updated asbestos stocks and flows information for Australia – reflecting new information from literature and industry experts. The national model provides annual estimates on the amount of legacy asbestos remaining in the built environment (stocks), and the quantities of asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) reaching the end ofRead more
New labour laws have been passed in Portugal that prohibit employers from contacting employees by phone, message or email outside of normal working hours. The new laws follow legislation put forward by the Socialist Party to improve the work-life balance of remote workers. With COVID-19 causing a rise in home working, there has been increasedRead more
