Psychosocial hazards and other workplace health risks
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Workplace Health and Safety Regulations - Are We Starting to Scrap the Surface?
There is clearly an intent to provide employers with greater detail around what some of their key obligations cover in work health and safety legislation. The concept of health has really always included both psychological and physical health, so that's nothing new. But what we're seeing in the proposed Victorian regulations and also some changes that were recently agreed to be made to the model work health andSafety strategies will include some definitions of key concepts. So for example, the concept of what is a psychosocial hasn't been well defined but New South Wales brought in a code of practice on managing psychosocial hazards at work last year.
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