Duty of Care & Rope Access
Recently there’s been some healthy conversation online around workplace environments; including work and safety cultures. There was a particular thread that came up around a recent article [...]
SafeWork Australia release 2021 WHS Statistics
Understanding the causes of injury and the industries most affected can help reduce work-related fatalities, injuries and disease. Work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses have a [...]
New IRATA Membership Requirements
It is official! The new IRATA Membership Requirements have come into full effect! All exisiting Member Companies shall be audited against these new requirements; rather than a checklist, the [...]
Australia-first framework to improve mental health at work
NSW will today become the first state in Australia to introduce an industry-wide Code of Practice to formally clarify the legal responsibilities businesses have to address hazards in the [...]
WA Director Jailed for Workplace Fatality
What has happened? A small business owner has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment (plus an additional 18 months suspended), a $2,250 fine and his company fined $605,000 in the first [...]
Understanding our Duty of Care and Legal Responsibilities
Article by Deborah Chick for the Working at Heights Association of Australia. Statistically, falls from heights remain one of the biggest causes of death, disability and injury in workplaces in [...]
Equipment Management Systems – Part II
If you’ve recently read Part I of our Equipment Blog, welcome back! If you haven’t read it yet, you can check it out here. We wrapped up Part I by asking you “why”? Why wouldn’t you want to make [...]
Equipment Management Systems – Part I
It’s been a little bit of time since I’ve written a mini-blog of sorts, and what better way to kick start a new one than by talking about one of my favourite things in the Rope Access and Height [...]
Who can perform Working at Heights Equipment Inspections?
Article by Deborah Chick for the Working at Heights Association of Australia The topic of performing Equipment Inspections on working at heights PPE and equipment is one of the most widely [...]
Person falls from tank
In November 2020, a man sustained serious head injuries after falling from a water tank that had just been put in place by a vehicle loading crane. It appears he was standing on the tank close to [...]