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24.01.2022 Working From Home is the norm for many workers now but some writers on the topic are alarmist and are posing silly What-If scenarios that are unhelpful in preventing harm and making a safe and healthy workplace. https://safetyatworkblog.com/2020/09/15/wfh-what-ifs-wtf/

24.01.2022 "The challenge of the Wicked Problem is there is no solution and often this encourages people to give up." The latest virtual OHS conference looks at Safety as a Wicked Problem and how progress can still be made. https://safetyatworkblog.com//a-wicked-start-to-a-virtual-

23.01.2022 There is a lot of guff (ie anecdotal evidence) floating around about the mental health impacts of the COVID19 pandemic but new Australia research into the first month of the pandemic provides evidence of anxieties AND optimism. https://safetyatworkblog.com//evidence-of-covid19-anxiety/

22.01.2022 The business and OHS impacts of COVID19 are starting to be assessed in Australia. The latest report from the AiGroup provides useful information. https://safetyatworkblog.com//analysis-of-business-impact/

21.01.2022 A marketing survey report from an IT company offers tantalising nuggets of work health and safety information on working from home and COVID19. https://safetyatworkblog.com//clues-to-the-new-normal-of-/

18.01.2022 Australia’s quad bike safety controversy is a controversy that keeps giving. It pulls in issues of costs, risks, globalisation, consultation, government interference, government support, trade union pigheadedness, industrial pigheadedness, and many more. At its core is the reduction or elimination of deaths from using quad bikes. https://safetyatworkblog.com///07/farmers-want-quad-bikes/

18.01.2022 A draft Code of Practice on COVID19 is released by Australia's Attorney-General's Department a month after its subsidiary, Safe Work Australia, releases a COVID19 work health and safety guidance. What's going on? https://safetyatworkblog.com//a-new-covid19-code-of-pract/

17.01.2022 "Your sins against the Victorian people have killed 572 of them" - Tim Smith MP goes for the Victorian Premier on Industrial Manslaughter in Parliament but what does he really want? https://safetyatworkblog.com//industrial-manslaughter-fre/

15.01.2022 From political frenzy to rational assessment. Eric Windholz has released a perceptive paper on Industrial Manslaughter. https://safetyatworkblog.com//useful-look-at-victorias-in/

15.01.2022 Genevieve Hawkins' book "Mentally at Work" summarises the Human Resources approach to workplace mental health very well but misses the opportunities for sustainable structural change that could prevent harm. https://safetyatworkblog.com//change-big-things-little-th/

14.01.2022 A basic understanding of the historical and global context of Working From Home and teleworking strengthens our strategies for the new workplace normal. Several countries already have strategies that have worked for them and could work or us. https://safetyatworkblog.com//21/wfh-strategies-and-evide/

14.01.2022 In August 2020, the Queensland Transport & Public Works Committee released a report which says: "it [is] unfortunate that quad bike manufacturers have taken the stance they have in withdrawing from the Australian market rather than proactively seeking an acceptable solution". https://safetyatworkblog.com//but-quad-bikes-remain-unsafe/

13.01.2022 No useful lessons in this week's record OHS penalty against Dreamworld and Ardent Leisure. The safety and governance lessons were in the Coroner's report. https://safetyatworkblog.com//no-lessons-in-the-dreamworl/

10.01.2022 Serious research into workplace bullshit has relevance for how we talk about safety with our peers, workers and bosses. The difference between bullshit and lying is an important distinction, especially when we consider industrial manslaughter. https://safetyatworkblog.com//more-workplace-bullshit-but/

08.01.2022 A recent legal seminar on mental health perpetuated a misperception on mental health, endorses an OHS-based approach and questioned the validity of corporate wellbeing programs. https://safetyatworkblog.com//the-never-ending-line-betwe/

07.01.2022 OHS prosecution request sent to WorkSafe Victoria over the COVID19 consequences of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program for returning travelers. Senior public servants and government Ministers named in the request https://safetyatworkblog.com//ohs-prosecution-request-ove/

05.01.2022 Western Australia now has Industrial Manslaughter penalties but equally important has been the banning of insurance policies that cover financial penalties. NSW has a company who pleaded guilty to workplace deaths but will have its insurance company pay the potential $1.5 million fine. https://safetyatworkblog.com//the-black-sheep-of-safety-l/

03.01.2022 A small dispute in Canberra's construction sector over taking photographs shows that the cooperation sought in that sector over the last decade is not as good as expected despite lots of work, investigations and reports. https://safetyatworkblog.com//10/getting-distracted-from-/

01.01.2022 December will be a busy month for mental health according to Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. On November 13 he mentioned the release of several mental health reports (but still nothing on the national sexual harassment at work report?)

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