On 1st October Safe Work Australia published an update to its Workplace Exposure Standards for Airborne Contaminants guideline (https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/workplace-exposure-standards-airborne-contaminants-2022). Key changes include halving the TWA for respirable coal dust (containing <5% quartz) from 3 mg/m3 to 1.5 mg/m3. This reduction is reflective of other recent changes to the...
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Do you have an interest in safety science, property risk, science, hazardous materials or occupational hygiene? We’d love to hear from you. Work Science is a leading consulting firm with offices in the Sydney CBD and a laboratory in Alexandria. We are looking for motivated professionals...
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Today Work Science welcomes Dr Tristan Casey as our Chief Scientist. Tristan will lead our complex work health, safety, and wellbeing projects. Dr Casey is an applied safety scientist with two doctoral degrees, including his PhD that involved the development and validation of the award-winning LEAD...
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Work Science would like to congratulate our client the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) for its outstanding win at the SafeWork NSW Awards last night. The NSW SES won the large business – government section category for its outstanding Cell on Wheels (CoW Gen2) solution to...
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Work Science is one of Australia’s highly regarded safety, property and risk management consultancies. To support our continued growth and the deliver of recent project wins we are seeking: A senior hazardous materials and occupational hygiene consultant (3-5 years experience); and A HSE consultant (1-3...
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Earlier this month our AHRI Safety and Wellbeing Forum welcomed Scarlet Reid and Nathan Roberts of McCullough Robertson Lawyers to share their views on the latest trends in regulator investigations and enforcement powers. McCullough Robertson’s session covered a practical overview of incident response, plus insights...
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In May our AHRI Safety and Wellbeing forum welcomed Andrew Ellery, Head of Community Engagement at icare, to brief attendees on the research and program development for its “Respect and Resilience in Retail” trial. icare provide workers compensation insurance to more than 326,000 public and private...
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In February our AHRI Safety & Wellbeing Network joined forces with AHRI’s Diversity & Inclusion Network to host a forum on “How to deploy effective diversity programs to supercharge workplace wellbeing” at Taronga Zoo’s new Institute for Science & Learning. Three speakers tackled the topic from...
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Late last month our AHRI Health, Safety and Wellbeing forum welcomed Alice Stanish, Acting General Manager Safety and Risk Assurance at The Star Entertainment Group to share lessons on disruptive safety: how to successfully implement WHS change programs in a 24/7 live entertainment environment. As an...
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Earlier this month our AHRI Health, Safety and Wellbeing Forum welcomed back Chelsea Cook, National Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) Manager at Defence Housing Australia (DHA) to share an update on DHA’s transformational safety journey. Last year Chelsea presented on DHA’s occupational violence program; now...
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