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How the hierarchy of control can help you fulfil your health and safety duties

January 2012

Following from last week’s OH&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’t happen to catch them, the OH&S Bulletins from last week can be found at the following links: Do you know what your health and safety duties as a director are? and How to comply with new directorship health and safety duties. These bulletins discussed the new duties of directors under the WHS Act and what directors can do to comply with those duties.

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How to comply with new directorship health and safety duties

January 2012

On Wednesday 11 January in the OH&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 with today’s bulletin.

Now, it is all well and good to know what the new duties are, but to understand how a director can comply with these duties is another matter…

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Do you know what your health and safety duties as a director are? Read this.

January 2012

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 requires health and safety systems to be reported accurately up the chain of command.

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