It is the right of every person to work in a safe environment. Globally every year, however, more than two million people lose their lives to work-related injury and disease. And this does not take into account the millions who are also injured while at work.
WHS Management: Contemporary Issues in Australia is a practical guide to managing work health and safety in Australian organisations. Written for students and safety professionals, it introduces the issues safety professionals are faced with in their efforts to improve safety culture.
This book is divided into four parts. Part I, Work Health and Safety Legislation, presents an historical account of how safety legislation was developed in Australia. Part II, The Role of the Health and Safety Professional, examines the role of the safety professional, and the demands and issues that arise within this role. Part III, Research Evidence, looks at hazard identification, the role of supervisors, and the impact that training in safety has on reducing work-related injuries. Part IV, Evaluation and Performance, presents some of the issues that safety professionals are required to manage in an ever-changing workplace and offers research ideas and strategies that can help to reduce work-related injury and disease.
Backed up by research, WHS Management: Contemporary Issues in Australia can help organisations ensure compliance with Australian health and safety legislation, as well as proactively develop a robust safety culture.
Key features - Reviews legislation harmonisation efforts between the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and state and territory legislation
- Examines how risk to workers, to the environment and to the financial stability of the organisation is managed and reduced
- Introduces workers' compensation requirements and the duties of employers
- Discusses injury management and the rehabilitation of injured workers
- Addresses safety and health performance measurement, evaluation and benchmarking
- Revitalises the safety professional's role as a leader imparting safety knowledge and ensuring workers have sufficient skills in working safely
- Looks at the OHS professional in the light of emerging issues such as environmental concerns, emotional health and wellbeing, stress, workplace bullying, occupational violence, carbon emissions and the business bottom line
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- About the author
- Introduction
- Part I - Work Health%Safety Legislation
- Chapter 1: Introducing the problem
- Introduction
- Using a risk management approach
- Defining risk and workplace hazards
- The role of health and safety professionals
- National OHS strategy 2002-2012
- Common workplace hazards
- Changes to Australian work organisation
- The common injuries sustained by workers in 2009-10
- Industries that received priority attention 2002-2012
- NWHSS 2012-2022
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 2: Australian legislation
- Introduction
- Common law principles
- Statute law principles
- The development of Australian WHS laws prior to harmonisation
- The current Australian legislative framework
- Types of legislation
- Roles, responsibilities and statute duty of care provisions of key duty holders
- Refusal to work
- Resolution of issues
- Role and powers of inspectors and enforcement
- Improvement, prohibition and non-disturbance notices
- Summary of WHS legislation
- References
- Part II - The Role of the Health and Safety Professional
- Chapter 3: Managing risk from multiple perspectives
- Introduction
- Occupational medical perspective
- Occupational epidemiology
- Toxicology
- Technical perspectives
- Why do machine accidents happen?
- Behavioural perspective
- Industrial sociology
- Legal and industrial relations perspective
- Why do injuries occur?
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 4: Managing risk and incidents as a health and safety professional
- Introduction
- What is risk management?
- Risk management and the law in Australia
- What does the risk management process offer organisations?
- The risk management process
- Workplace accident investigation
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 5: Managing injured workers' return to work
- Introduction
- Principles of workers' compensation
- What does workers' compensation cover?
- What constitutes a workers' compensation claim?
- What does workers' compensation not cover?
- Compensable injury
- Limitations of workers' compensation
- Under reporting of work-related injuries
- Summary
- Rehabilitation
- Benefits of rehabilitation program
- The rehabilitation process
- Rehabilitation systems jurisdictional requirements
- Planning the process
- Medical certificates explained
- Stages of the process
- External rehabilitation providers
- Conclusion
- References
- Part III - Research Evidence
- Chapter 6: Workplace hazard identification
- Introduction
- Workplace hazard identification
- Methodology
- Interview results
- Discussion and summary
- References
- Chapter 7: The role of supervision
- Introduction
- Background
- Managerial leadership in safety
- Methodology
- Study results
- Methods of supervision
- Discussion
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 8: The role of the supervisor
- Introduction
- Background
- Training in Australia
- Training to improve workplace safety
- Research design and methodology
- Findings
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Part IV - Evaluation and Performance
- Chapter 9: Health and safety performance
- Introduction
- Monitoring
- Health and safety auditing
- Types of workplace inspections
- Accident investigation
- The accident investigation process
- How to conduct an accident investigation
- Accident causation factors
- Incident recording and reporting
- Performance measurement
- What do the injury measurements provide?
- Positive performance indicators
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 10: Managing in light of contemporary issues
- Introduction
- The role of management in workplace health and safety
- Planning in a complex environment
- Management styles that influence workplace safety culture
- WHS policies, programs and procedures
- The health and safety programme
- Negotiating health and safety issues
- Emerging issues in workplace health and safety
- Summary
- References
- Appendix I: Safety checklist
- Appendix II: Risk rating and risk level form
- Index
