by ABILITY GROUP | Mar 11, 2019 | Work Health & Safety, Workplace safety
No worker should face the risk of not coming home from work. We promote it is essential all Australian workplaces take every precaution to ensure their employees return home safe at the end of every day. So what are Australia’s most dangerous industries?
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by ABILITY GROUP | Feb 14, 2019 | Injury Prevention, Work Health & Safety, Workplace safety
There is an expression used by insurers ‘you take your worker as you find them’. In workers compensation, often the current employer can be held liable for an injury or condition from previous employment or sport injury or the likes.
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by Marc Ring | Jan 26, 2019 | Events, Workplace safety
Wishing you a happy & safe Australia Day. With best wishes from ABILITY GROUP
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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