For the next two months, I will be travelling to Switzerland, England and Scotland on a long-planned holiday. I will be producing fewer blog articles over that time, but I have commissioned articles from several occupational health professionals I admire. These articles will offer different OHS perspectives and relate to countries other than Australia, hopefully, … Continue reading “Holidays but the blog goes on”
RUOK? Day is held in September each year in Australia. The workplace suicide awareness campaign has been very successful, but over time, I have observed a decline in effectiveness, certainly at the local communication level. It may be a victim of its own success as almost all awareness campaigns struggle to maintain their original freshness. …
To all readers who do not reside in Australia, SafetyAtWorkBlog is applying a 50 per cent discount on annual subscriptions for the month of September 2023. This drops the subscription price to $125 Australian dollars. This subscription provides full access to over 3000 work health and safety articles, but for September and October, there will … Continue reading “Discount International Subscription Offer”
New research into working in excessive heat concisely summarises the socioeconomic impacts but misses the obvious strategies to prevent or diminish these impacts. It also includes impacts on productivity, but heat and climate change are not in the current Australian business group discussions about productivity. Those groups could benefit from understanding Gwarda....
Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a remarkably insular profession. It tends to narrow its focus on legislative compliance even though Social Determinants of Health is a core unit of tertiary OHS education. OHS professionals are also notably weak in understanding the business realities that their employers and customers face. This inability to understand the …
Burnout will continue to be a trend for discussion papers and marketing brochures for some time to come. A recent one, from Udemy Business is a good example of discussion without action. If we were to replace the word “burnout” with “stress”, the paper could easily have been produced over twenty years ago. Many of …
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) conference has endorsed the concept of the right-to-disconnect, according to an article in The Australian. Sadly, the reporting on the change has a dismissive tone on what is an attempt to address the increasing costs of mental health at work. Readily accessible and recent survey data on the right-to-disconnect could …
