Safe Work Australia, the nation's new peak OHS and workers' compensation body (which replaced the ASCC), held its inaugural meeting in Sydney on 10 June 2009, chaired by Mr Tom Phillips AM.
The inaugural meeting focused on the development of model…
I think there will be the inevitable "dragging of the chain", that ponderously slow process of the jurisdictions getting it all together. But like a lot of OH&S law stuff, the commonsense of one principal act and one set of regs for a tiny country l…
Yes, but not in the pure or ideal manner intended. You mention the union concerns but the WA government has expressed strong reticence.
The implementation timetable is set and there is considerable horse-trading to be done but, perhaps, the Deputy…
While the jurisdictions have all signed on for 'harmonisation', we are now getting to the business end of this proposal. Some key milestones remain to be passed as well as a few sticking points.
Work, we are told, is well under way in terms of draf…