One of your most important responsibilities as a safety coordinator is to ensure that your company exercises due diligence. The problem is that due diligence is a legal concept, not a blueprint of how to run an OHS program. In addition, due diligence gets decided …

On Feb. 8, 2010, an Australian café, its owner, its manager, a waiter and a chef were convicted under Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Act for viciously bullying a 19-year-old worker both physically and emotionally to the point where she jumped off a building to …

Workers from an HVAC contractor pressurized pipes with nitrogen gas to check for leaks before installing a cooling system. A welder wrongly believed the test was over and the pipes were no longer depressurized. As he bent over a pipe, a sudden release of gas …

Safety training is an important part of managing workplace hazards and risks and a key component of an OHS program. Each year, companies spend a lot of money on safety training. For example, in the US, the total cost of training is over $100 billion …

Many factors influence the risk of injury and illness in a workplace, such as the industry,  nature of the work and type of equipment and materials used. Every safety coordinator is surely familiar with these factors. But recent research has identified another risk factor that’s …