by Nardia Vescovi-Diss OK, so you’ve decided that it’s time to make sure that you’ve got your Work Health & Safety (WH&S) obligations covered, your WH&S policy is sorted, safety officers are in place, someone’s been trained in first aid, fire and emergency evacuation, you’ve got your Workcover insurance, even an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), […]
Icare will be introducing some changes early this year with the intention that it will make the workers insurance scheme easier to use and more accessible for insurance companies, that are agents of icare, and also for businesses with workers compensation insurance. The main changes are as follows: Icare will undertake all policy and […]
In Greg’s last last blog he touched on the WHS structures and processes now rolled out routinely in large organisations (200+ employees). In this blog, we continue by encouraging SME’s to emulate their large business counterparts and suggest some immediate practical steps that will see your business well on the road to safety and compliance. […]
I though that you might like a change from me, so I have asked a WH&S expert from our team to write this blog. In 2021 – 169 people died due to work-related traumatic injuries. Australia’s Lost-time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) paints an unsettling work health and safety scenario – one week or more was […]