Today Safe Work Australia Chief Executive Officer, Michelle Baxter announced the winner of the inaugural Workplace Participation Reward—Howe Farming Enterprises. The banana growers from Queensland beat over 60 entries to take out the prize for demonstrating outstanding commitment, participation and creativity to raise the awareness of work health and...
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2014 Annual Conference
The 2014 Annual Conference of the CSMF will be held on Friday 21 November 2014 at the Federal Golf Club, Red Hill ACT, with registration commencing at 8.30am and the Conference itself commencing at 9am, and ending at 5pm with refreshments after. The theme of this year’s Conference is Managing Health...
Safe Design Saves Lives
Data released today by Safe Work Australia in the Work-related fatalities associated with unsafe design of machinery, plant and powered tools, 2006-2011 report indicates a high number of work-related fatalities could have been avoided if risks had been eliminated through safe design. Of the 523 fatalities examined in this study, 36...
Leaders for challenging times
Michelle Baxter, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Safe Work Australia encourages Australians to tune into the Australian Strategy Virtual Seminar Series on the 24th October. The live and interactive panel discussion Leadership and work health and safety in challenging working environments will feature three of Australia’s business leaders: Ann Sherry AO...
CSMF 2014 Annual Conference
2014 CONFERENCE AGENDA – Draft
Mentally healthy workplaces for a healthier business
This World Mental Health Day, Michelle Baxter Acting Chief Executive Officer of Safe Work Australia encourages all Australians to focus on making a positive difference to mental health by creating a mentally healthy workplace. Recent analysis by Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates that untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers...
Lowest compensated fatality rate in a decade
Data released today in Safe Work Australia’s latest Comparative Performance Monitoring report shows work-related compensated injury fatalities are at their lowest level since 2002. The 16th edition of the report provides trend analysis on the work health and safety and workers’ compensation schemes operating in Australia and New Zealand....
Auditor’s Report for 2014 available
The 2014 Audit Report on the finances of the CSMF has been completed by Parkhill Accounting and was tabled at the AGM on 3 September 2014.
Get involved in work health and safety this October
Seminar on Leadership 3 October 2014 in Canberra – Full Details This October is Safe Work Australia Month (safety month) – a time to promote the importance and raise the awareness of work health and safety in Australia. As part of safety month Safe Work Australia is hosting the first...
Work health and safety in an adaptive age
Michelle Baxter, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Safe Work Australia encouraged everyone to tune-in to Professor Dennis Else’s presentation on the history and challenges for workplace health and safety. “Professor Else’s presentation draws on his over four decades of experience in the work health and safety academic and business community,...
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