WorkSafe

Workers are likely to be exposed to more than one type of psychosocial hazard or risk at any one time. Psychosocial hazards and risk factors interact with each other so they should not be considered in isolation.

As you read about fatigue, consider how this might look in your workplace, what other hazards are present and how they might be interacting and affecting workers.

During October each year, we ask organisations and workers to join us in raising workplace health and safety awareness for National Safe Work Month.

If you have workers working in regional and remote areas, you need to provide accommodation for workers while the work is being carried out. An example of such arrangements would be where accommodation is provided to fruit-pickers during the harvesting season, shearers on a sheep station, workers engaged in construction work at a remote location, or rural/farming or fly-in fly-out scenarios. 

Work health and safety (WHS) legislation protect all workers in Western Australia, even if you are on a temporary visa. You have a right to a safe, healthy and fair workplace.

In Western Australia, the WHS legislation require that a high standard of safety must be provided at your workplace, and that you are not injured or harmed because of your work. Making workplaces safer relies upon your boss (sometimes called the person conducting a business or undertaking [PCBU]) and you working together.

Electric shock often results from people making contact with energised parts of damaged or faulty electrical equipment.

RCDs cut the electricity supply instantly if a person touches a live part and receives a shock.  Serious injuries and fatalities may be prevented by the use of properly installed and maintained RCDs, sometimes called ‘safety switches’.