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		<title>Understanding the WHS Act: Consultation – Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from last Friday&#8217;s bulletin on the consultation provisions under the WHS Act, we have decided to discuss health and safety representatives today and move onto safety committees on Friday. The changes to requirements surrounding health and safety representatives are integral to the new consultation arrangements under the WHS Act. The new safety laws introduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/22/understanding-the-whs-act-consultation-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the WHS Act: Consultation – Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The WHS Act emphasises the importance of consulting with affected workers and other businesses in order to improve the safety outcome of any work activity. The new laws achieve this by maintaining the duty to consult with employees about safety issues but expanding it to include other workers, such as contractors, who might similarly be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/17/understanding-the-whs-act-consultation-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the WHS Act: Duties of Care – Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been some confusion about the responsibilities of visitors and volunteers under the new safety laws. Here are the duties owed by visitors and volunteers in the WHS Act to clear things up&#8230; Visitors A visitor to your business&#8217; workplace must take reasonable care for their own health and safety at the workplace and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/15/understanding-the-whs-act-duties-of-care-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the WHS Act: Duties of Care – Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses: Any one who operates a business will now be a &#8216;person conducting a business or undertaking&#8217; (PCBU). A PCBU has an absolute duty to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the health and safety of workers and other persons impacted by the business or undertaking. Reasonably practicable steps means those available ways of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/10/understanding-the-whs-act-duties-of-care-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the WHS Act: A Practical Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The WHS Act is upon us. Whether your jurisdiction has introduced the new legislation yet or not, you will have to prepare your company for it. How can we help you? Over the next few weeks, with the help of Michael Selinger our new Co-Editor-in-Chief, the OH&#038;S Bulletin will give you with a rundown of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/08/understanding-the-whs-act-a-practical-guide/</link>
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		<title>How far does your health and safety liability extend?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first OH&#038;S Bulletin for February. I hope you all had a lovely weekend! We get some pretty interesting questions through the helpdesk service we provide for subscribers to the OH&#038;S Handbook &#8211; and some of them raise issues that we think would be helpful to many of our readers. That&#8217;s why we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/02/01/how-far-does-your-health-and-safety-liability-extend/</link>
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		<title>Introducing our new Co-Editor-in-Chief!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon, Today we have a very special announcement! I am very pleased to introduce Michael Selinger, who will be joining Andrew Douglas as our new Co-Editor-in-Chief at the OH&#038;S Handbook. From now on, the OH&#038;S Handbook will have two health and safety experts at the helm, providing you with double the experience and knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/01/25/introducing-our-new-co-editor-in-chief/</link>
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		<title>How the hierarchy of control can help you fulfil your health and safety duties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following from last week&#8217;s OH&#038;S Bulletins, today we will be looking at the hierarchy of control and how it can be used to create safe systems of work in your workplace. If you didn&#8217;t happen to catch them, the OH&#038;S Bulletins from last week can be found at the following links: Do you know what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/01/20/how-the-hierarchy-of-control-can-help-you-fulfil-your-health-and-safety-duties/</link>
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		<title>How to comply with new directorship health and safety duties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday 11 January in the OH&#038;S Bulletin, I discussed the new health and safety duties of directors under the WHS Act. Please refer to that article, Do you know your health and safety duties as a director?, to remind yourself about what those duties are, and the point from which we are starting from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/01/13/how-to-comply-with-new-directorship-health-and-safety-duties/</link>
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		<title>Do you know what your health and safety duties as a director are? Read this.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the new WHS Act, directors of companies have increased duties they are expected to comply with. These new duties place a higher level of responsibility on directors to be involved in the health and safety systems that are implemented within their company. This involves specific governance requirements around the management of the company, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ohshandbook.com.au/2012/01/11/do-you-know-what-your-health-and-safety-duties-as-a-director-are/</link>
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