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How to safely bring your employees back to the workplace after hibernation

By Rebecca Goulter | 12/05/2020 |

a photo of someone walking to work with a coffee in one hand and a magazine in the other.

Due to the speed with which the COVID-19 pandemic spread and required social distancing to ‘flatten the curve’, many companies were forced to either stand down their workforces or organise…

Jail sentence and record fine against reckless employer sets benchmark for WHS prosecutions

By Sophie Goodall | 12/03/2019

A photograph of a person placing a tile down on top of other tiles. Only his right hand forearm and parts of his knee can be seen. To his right is a hammer that sits in the middle of the image.

In the first charge of reckless conduct to be successfully tried under the harmonised work health and safety legislation, a director of a Queensland roofing company has been sentenced to…