Workplace Health and Safety

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Performance Management That Holds Up: Why a Valid Reason Is Only Half the Defence

An engineer with thirty years’ experience was dismissed for genuinely substandard work. Missed deadlines. Quality problems. A welding error that halted a production line.  The Fair Work Commission accepted there was a valid reason to dismiss him. He won anyway — and was awarded compensation of $21,471.15 plus superannuation — because the employer had no formal performance management process and gave him

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Managing Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace: Why a Policy Alone Won’t Protect You

What’s the real issue?  Having a psychosocial health and safety policy is not the same as managing psychosocial risk and regulators increasingly treat the gap as a breach. The most common mistake we see is treating this as an HR document rather than a WHS obligation owned by senior leadership exactly the “Band-Aid solution” the Model Code of Practice warns against.  A

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