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
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.
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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Sexual discrimination & harassment is described by the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW as when someone is “treated unfairly or harassed”. On the back of the recent Me Too media coverage, we look at the impacts in the workplace & resulting claims.
In 2017 SafeWork NSW prosecuted & subsequently fined businesses a total of $835,000 for incidents where workers were either injured or killed by a forklift. This has prompted us to again highlight the importance of Fork Lift Safety seriously & offer assistance.
During the last 4 years, more than 145,000 workers have been injured as a result of hazardous manual tasks. WHS legislation specifically defines hazardous manual tasks & businesses are able to take simple steps to minimise risks & provide a safer workplace.