by ABILITY GROUP | Nov 13, 2018 | Health & Wellbeing, Injury Management, Mental Health
Independent
research shows Mental Illness is the fastest growing workplace injury and is
costing hundreds of billions per year.
The
Australian Council of Trade Unions has welcomed some recommendations from the
Productivity Commission, including no-liability treatment for mental health
injuries and claims.
Psychological
health and safety should be treated with the same importance as physical health
and safety and WHS in the workplace.
ACTU conducted
a survey this year and I was found that over 60% of respondents had experienced
mental illness due to their employer failing to manage psycho-social hazards in
the workplace. It was also found in this survey that nearly half of
participants felt their employers were not prepared to support workers
experiencing mental illness in the workplace.
SOURCE: https://www.miragenews.com/mental-illness-fastest-growing-workplace-hazard-costs-hundreds-of-billions-per-year/
by ABILITY GROUP | Sep 11, 2018 | Hazardous Manual Tasks, Workplace safety
Consequences of breaches and disregard for the safety of workers result in various fines and mandatory measures to correct misconduct. Failing to comply with WHS duties are reflected in 3 different degrees of severity under the WHS Act, depending on their circumstances, outcomes and whether recklessness is shown by the employer in their duty to ensure appropriate WHS for their workers.
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by ABILITY GROUP | Aug 10, 2018 | Health & Wellbeing
A professionally organised Warm Up Program can improve workers health & wellbeing. With numerous benefits, key Warm Up Program outcomes can include reduced absenteeism, workplace injuries & workers compensation claim related costs
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by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorized, Work Health & Safety
Safe Work Australia has introduced a Licence Register to making it easier to do business to find important information. Following a WHS Regulation amendment, the NSW Government published a register of individuals who hold high risk & construction licenses
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by ABILITY GROUP | Jun 1, 2018 | Health & Wellbeing
ABILITY GROUP’s team was proud to recently participate in Anytime Fitness’ 24 Hour Treadmill Challenge. Given we support people with mental health issues (both at work & in personal lives), all of us proudly #treadtogether in raising funds to help prevent suicide.
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by ABILITY GROUP | May 28, 2018 | Health & Wellbeing
We are very proud our entire ABILITY GROUP team is uniting for a great cause by doing Junk Free June. We are raising money to support the Cancer Council Australia & are seeking our clients, partners, family & friends to support us in fundraising for this cause.
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