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workplace safety

Do ASX-listed CEOs need bodyguards in 2025?
Undertaking a security risk assessment and implementing reasonably practicable controls in the event of unpredictable...
13 January 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Ensuring psychological safety in legal workplaces
In the changing landscape of workplace health and safety, legal leaders are increasingly responsible for ensuring they...
03 September 2024
By Grace Robbie
Dear PM: Let’s meet to discuss workplaces’ role in ending men’s murder of women
I want to be part of the solution for a safer Australia. Because women like me shouldn’t be left behind. I would like...
02 May 2024
By Naomi Neilson
How workplaces can comply with the positive duty to eliminate sexual harassment
With enforcement powers behind the positive duty to eliminate sexual harassment due to commence, two practitioners have...
02 January 2024
By Naomi Neilson
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Prioritising safety and worker wellbeing: A crucial moment in workplace reform
As National Safety Month continues, reflecting on the multifaceted safety hazards is crucial, writes Corey Rabaut....
11 October 2023
By Lauren Croft
The importance of workplace safety plans in family law
As vicarious traumatic stress within the profession increases, family law firms have been urged to implement a...
20 July 2023
By Lauren Croft
Technology, workplace safety among the key PD trends for rest of 2023
The ethical use of technology and social media and workplace health and safety risks will be massive trends to look out...
02 March 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Unpacking the new Respect@Work regulations
After the Respect@Work Bill was tabled in Parliament this week, law firms have welcomed new legislation that will focus...
03 October 2022
By Lauren Croft
Legal implications from ‘very disturbing’ Hawthorn FC allegations
Allegations of forced separation and pregnancy terminations, arising from an independent review into Hawthorn Football...
23 September 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
‘This is not a time for guessing’: New legislative changes to WHS regulations and mental health
With a number of legislative changes coming into play around mental health risks in the workplace, this pair said firms...
16 August 2022
By Lauren Croft
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The power of making noise
Through their actions, the next generation of leaders have demonstrated that they are not afraid to make noise, nor are...
14 February 2022
By Jerome Doraisamy
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Complaint systems in organisations are ‘far from fit to purpose’
Whilst progress has been made in organisations since the #MeToo movement and the release of the Respect@Work report,...
21 September 2021
By Lauren Croft
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