When Should you do a COVID-19 Risk Assessment?
As an employer in Australia, you have a duty to ensure the health and safety of your workers and eliminate exposure to COVID-19 where reasonably practicable.
What is a COVID-19 Risk Assessment?
Like any other Work Health & Safety Risk Assessment, a COVID-19 Risk Assessment will follow the same steps. There are additional elements due to this pandemic's contagious and evolving nature. All of these elements will be individual to each particular business.
First Aid for Heat-Related Illness
As an employer, you have a duty to provide first aid. This includes first aid equipment and facilities as well as having access to trained first aid officers...
Managing Heat Risks
As a person conducting business or undertaking it is your duty of care to keep your workers and workplaces safe from the risks posed by working in the heat...
What is a Return to Work Coordinator?
SIRA defines a Return to Work (RTW) Coordinator as a person appointed by an employer responsible for implementing an organisation’s...
Financial Benefits of a RTW Coordinator
A RTW Coordinator is beneficial for the company and the injured worker; it is also helpful in managing workers compensation premiums. If your claims performance...
RTW Coordinator Training
We offer a variety of training courses for our clients that range from Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace to Best Practice Recovery...
Outsourcing vs In House Return to Work Coordinators
With free training available and numerous sources of information on the internet, nominating a staff member as your in-house RTW Coordinator...
How can you tell if you have a voice disorder?
Symptoms of a voice disorder Many people with voice injuries will report their voice sounds harsh, strained or “tight”, or their voice...
What is a voice disorder?
For a normal voice, the vocal cords vibrate as a result of air passing through the larynx. Anything that affects the vocal cord movement...
How do you treat a voice disorder?
Voice injuries can take time to resolve, as most of us use our voice frequently throughout the day. Early diagnosis and appropriate...
What is a noisy workplace? How much time would it take to have your inner ear affected?
The exposure standard is 85dB for 8 hours. Louder than this it will become hazardous noise, yet it all depends on the amount of time the...
How do we know if we have a noisy workplace?
As an employer you will be responsible for any and all WHS duties under the WHS Act. Spreading the responsibilities out with a HR...
Noise Assessment Survey – What is Involved?
Typically, the employer/safety coordinator/WHS manager should understand the workplace enough to tell the assessor previous information...
What is Employer Grouping & How Does it Affect My Premiums?
Grouping is where related businesses in NSW must group their workers' compensation insurance should their combined wages be over...
How You Should Be Spending Your Safety Incentives!
According to icare's statistics, the average cost of a muscular skeletal injury claim can be $32,774. Therefore, isn't anything...
Premium Renewal Time – 6 Reasons to Review your Workers’ Compensation Claims Now
Your premium will be impacted by your claims’ performance; and wages (or how long your injured worker are away from work) are the biggest factor...
Discover What You Need to Do About Your Work Health & Safety Policies
Amongst the business of doing business it is easy to overlook creating, implementing or updating workplace policies. Furthermore...
10 Reasons & 10 Benefits to Train Your Supervisors
Supervisors and team leaders play a vital role in the health, safety and welfare of the employees in their charge; and in the event of…
Take Action Now! Return to Work following a Psychological Injury – What Works & What Doesn’t?
A psychological injury represents a breakdown in work health and safety systems. Yet responsibility for safety starts at the top that...
Read This Now: The Law, Employers and Psychological Injury
Psychological injury or mental injury includes a range of cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms that interfere with a worker’s...
Active OHS| Psych Injury Management has Changed| Start the Journey Now| March 2021 Newsletter
Welcome to our March 2021 newsletter! This month we are all about Psychological Injury in the workplace. What it is, how to prevent it…
Start the Journey Now! Psychological Injury Management has changed
Start Your Journey of Organisational Change Now Active OHS has an experienced team that can guide you around organisational change. We can work...
The 4 Best Steps to Prevent Psychological Injury at Work
Psychological injury claims are less common than physical injury claims, but can be more complex, costly and result in more time off…
Case Study: Watch Out – You Must Engage a Professional for Workplace Psychological Issues
Active OHS received a referral for a person called George from Jenny the HR Manager of a NSW Government Department. George was...
Work from Home Injuries – Now the New Pandemic
Since the world went into shutdown in March 2020, many people – if their role supports it – are still working from home. Telecommuting benefits...
Want to Know How COVID-19 Has Impacted Workers’ Lives Around the World?
Between November 20 and December 4 2020 IPSOS conducted a 28-country survey for the World Economic Forum that found: COVID-19 prompted...
Beware Injury Ahead – When Your Keyboard is All Wrong
My Keyboard Was an E-Dinosaur. As the boss I tended to get whatever equipment was left over so my keyboard at the time was an e-dinosaur (that means it wasn’t that old but by e-standards it was) and I found my right arm was aching.
How to Avoid an Injury – 10 Tips to Set Up Your Workstation
When you are sitting for most of the day setting up your workstation correctly is important to help reduce your risk of injury.