Safe Work Australia recently released three reports on workplace exposure to lead, formaldehyde and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which was in furtherance of the results of a 5000 worker 2011/12 Australian Work Exposures Study into 38 identified workplace carcinogens.

Often enough it is the things that employers cannot see that can cause the most harm to employees. The abovementioned noxious fumes in particular have been linked to an increased incidence of cancers. The importance of not […]

2014 has been rife with changes and developments to the workplace relations landscape. It would be an almost impossible task to comprehensively list all of the year’s relevant developments. However, we have chosen some of them to highlight here as we say farewell to 2014 and look ahead to all that 2015 may bring.
Bullying
Possibly the most highly anticipated of new issues to hit the landscape this year was the establishment of the Fair Work […]