The Safety Spotlight
The Safety Spotlight
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Stay informed and create safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces with The Safety Spotlight, brought to you by WorkSafe ACT. Subscribe now to keep up to date with key workplace safety issues, expert insights, and real-world solutions that matter to employer and employee alike.
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The show focuses on workplace safety topics, including managing fatigue, legal obligations, and practical solutions for health risks, with episodes featuring in-depth discussions like distinguishing between fatigue and tiredness and exploring the serious impacts of unmanaged fatigue on employee performance and well-being.
Stay informed and create safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces with The Safety Spotlight, brought to you by WorkSafe ACT.
Subscribe now to keep up to date with key workplace safety issues, expert insights, and real-world solutions that matter to employer and employee alike.
In this episode of The Safety Spotlight, host Lish Fejer discusses work health and safety prosecutions with WorkSafe ACT's Commissioner Jacqui Agius and Queensland's Independent Work Health and Safety Prosecutor, Simon Nicholson. They delve into how prosecutions serve as a risk deterrent, enforce employer accountability, and raise public awareness on risk in the workplace. The episode also explores the complexity of investigations, the importance of evidence, and the focus on both incident-based and risk-based prosecutions, including the emerging area of psychosocial hazards. Key takeaways emphasise the significance of prevention, proper systems of work, and the evolving legal landscape surrounding workplace health and safety.
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