Magazines

ThinkSafe is WorkSafe’s flagship online magazine for workplace health and safety in Western Australia. 

• ThinkSafe magazine: November 2024
  This issue presents a range of articles on work health and safety (WHS) across all industries. Feature articles include new regulations for all crystalline silica processes, cyanide safety, and fraudulent qualifications in the mining industry. We showcase the winners of the WorkSafe WHS Excellence awards for 2024, including our cover story on the health and safety representative of the year. In other articles, we look at controlling noise-induced hearing loss, protective clothing for welders and quad bike safety There are also the latest updates on safety prosecutions and new publications available on the WorkSafe website. Are you thinking of a career change? Have a look at our spotlight on WorkSafe inspectors and see if this is the career for you.
• ThinkSafe magazine: May 2024
  This issue presents a range of articles on work health and safety (WHS) across all industries. Feature articles outline WorkSafe's strategic direction for the next three years, provide crucial information on the engineered stone ban and the reasons behind it, and also revisit asbestos, twenty years after its ban. In other articles, we meet the 2023 health and safety representative of the year, look at changes to the workplace standards for exposure fumes, security on construction sites, and establishing good safety practices on farms. We also invite you to put in a nomination for a Work Health and Safety Excellence Award and to come and see us at upcoming agricultural field days.
• ThinkSafe magazine: May 2023
  This issue provides an update on the Enough is Enough report and the key commitments from the Government to address workplace sexual harassment in the mining sector. It also features all you need to know about Mines statutory positions, exams and certification, updates on the MARS Program and new regulations for managing the risks of psychosocial hazards. There is also information on incident notification, including links to download the guidance and posters to display at your workplace.
• ThinkSafe magazine: July 2022
  This issue focuses on WA’s work health and safety (WHS) laws which came into effect on 31 March 2022. The WorkSafe Commissioner opens the edition outlining what the regulatory approach will be for the first 12 months of the WHS laws. To assist workplaces, codes of practice, animations and information sheets explaining the core concepts of WHS have been developed. In addition, there is a focus on what industry can do to prevent and manage workplace gendered violence, plus key changes to licensing under WHS. It also features a handy snapshot on how to report an incident to WorkSafe, including a link to download the poster and display at your workplace.
• ThinkSafe magazine: September 2021
  This issue provides an update on the Department’s implementation strategy for the new work health and safety (WHS) laws, including the latest on available guidance for industry. It also features all you need to know about October’s Safe Work Month and includes health and safety articles ranging from reporting psychosocial injuries in the resource sector to regulation changes as a result of WorkSafe’s silica compliance project.
• ThinkSafe magazine: April 2021
  In this issue the Department is celebrating the return of the Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards with submissions now open. It includes a spotlight on the revamped SmartMove platform, helping young workers get off to the right start; along with information on the progress of the new work health and safety laws in WA. The potential hazards associated with vape use in the workplace are discussed, in addition to the benefits of safe work method statements. Miss out attending the 2020 Safe Work Month events? – this issue includes links to all the webinars and on-demand videos from the sessions. Need to plan a safety meeting? – From the Toolbox is a new regular feature of the Th!nkSafe with links to the latest safety and health publications from the Department.
• ThinkSafe magazine: September 2020
  This September, ThinkSafe announces Safe Work Month 2020 as a virtual event and is packed with essential work health and safety reading! Stay focused on your workplace health and safety by learning about maintenance, human and organisational factors, working from home and the latest mining and dangerous goods news.
• ThinkSafe magazine: May 2020
  This issue introduces the benefits of applying ten human organisational factors (HOF) to improve safety outcomes in the workplace. It also features: information about the safe handling, storing, and transporting of dangerous goods in transit areas; the requirements that guide safe tailing storage facilities in Western Australia; structural and plant maintenance essentials; and the risks of lightning.
• ThinkSafe magazine: January 2020
  This issue celebrates the recipients of the 2019 Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards and provides an update on WA's new work health and safety laws. It also includes features on hazing and initiations in the workplace, changes to the rules for quad bike users and tips for transporting common dangerous goods.
• ThinkSafe magazine: September 2019
  This issue celebrates the start of Safe Work Month October with a calendar of events and how to get involved. It includes features on the hazards of methamphetamine use in the workplace, the findings of a recent study into diesel exhaust emissions in underground mines and an update on modernising WA's work health and safety laws.
• ThinkSafe magazine: April 2019
  This issue introduces the State Government’s new code of practice for FIFO workplaces, and announces the Department’s inaugural Work Health and Safety Excellence Awards. It also includes features on working in remote areas, highlights the importance of leaving fireworks to professionals and an interview with the 2018 Safety and Health Representative of the Year.
• ThinkSafe magazine: January 2019
  This issue introduces the new WorkSafe Western Australia Commissioner, Mr Darren Kavanagh, and provides an update on modernising WA’s workplace health and safety laws. It also includes features on silica dust exposures, asbestos in the built environment and what is required in a health and hygiene management plan. The new-look online magazine will play an important role in raising general awareness of safety and health issues.

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