Global climates are changing and the world is rapidly warming. Canada’s labour laws must keep pace with the rate of change to protect workers.
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Conservatively speaking, workplace violence costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Employers have a duty to address work stressors and make adjustments for workers with long-term illnesses.
Quaternary ammonium compounds, also known as QACs or quats, are commonly used antimicrobials also found in many household products. Soap and water may be a safer bet when cleaning surfaces.
National Day of Mourning should be used to challenge misconceptions about occupational health and safety, and advance safer workplaces for Canadians.
Employing children as waste pickers lowers costs but exposes them to hazards.
While a workplace fatality is a great tragedy, an even greater tragedy is not learning from it.
In an on-set accident, Alec Baldwin has fatally fired a prop gun. When using weapons on screen, safety must always be paramount.
Burnout as the result of workplace stress has big implications for employers. Occupational health and safety standards require employers to protect both the physical and mental health of workers.
In post-pandemic Canada, the media will play a big role in shaping public understanding of labour conditions. A future of work that is safe and equitable requires the voices of workers.
Noise-induced hearing loss is an occupational health hazard. It remains a prevalent condition in the South African mining industry.
Toxic and hyper-masculine workplaces are linked with a variety of health issues including anxiety, depression, burnout, hair loss, insomnia, and headaches.
The Greencore case also presents lessons for the post-coronavirus economic recovery ahead.
The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of ensuring safe workspaces, and a new study suggests unionization leads workers to speak up about poor conditions.
There’s an important distinction between planned and unplanned communication.
Some 70-80% of health-care workers testing positive to COVID-19 in Victoria’s second wave were infected at work, compared with 22% in the first wave.
As Melburnians are encouraged to wear masks in public, shops and cafes around Australia can already make mask-wearing a condition of entry.
Employers obligations are set out clearly. What’s important is what they “know or reasonably ought to know”.
The technician who gave you that shiny manicure may be inhaling dangerous levels of toxic chemicals on the job.
What lessons can Australia learn from tackling asbestos to manage this latest preventable occupational hazard?
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University
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Professor, RMIT University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Organisational Psychology, Griffith University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Curtin University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Research professor, University of South Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Partnership Facilitator, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer and Associate, Monash Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash University
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Professor & CEO of the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, Monash University
