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		<title>The personal cost of surviving a major hazard explosion</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-personal-effect-of-surviving-a-major-hazard-explosion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one gets older, the &#8220;where are they now?&#8221; columns in the newspapers or the summer magazine supplements become more interesting.  The articles of faded pop stars and political one-time wonders are diverting but every so often one makes you stop and think.
OHS is not renowned for &#8220;where are they nows?&#8221;.  The discipline and the profession has few celebrities but there are important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4638&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All for the want of &#8230;.. the right decision</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/all-for-the-want-of-the-right-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent a colleague was explaining to me how the cost of a project is ballooning and the project is generating a toxic workplaces by some managers not talking to other managers.  The disharmony is doing nothing to control the costs and the juvenile conduct of the managers is spreading the damage throughout the organisation.
My colleague told me that if only the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4633&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This may not work for OHS but why not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 9 November 2009 public submissions close on Australia&#8217;s model OHS Act but the move for harmonisation and, hopefully, a simplification for business and government continues in other areas.
The Australian Transport Council (ATC) met on 6 November 2009 and agreed on many Council of Australian Governments (COAG) matters concerning unnecessary bureaucratic duplication:
&#8220;ATC agreed to recommend to COAG [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4627&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tasmania&#8217;s workers compensation changes pass</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/tasmanias-workers-compensations-changes-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easy to forget that workers compensation is clicking along during this intense period of analysis of OHS laws.  Workers compensation legislation passed through Tasmania&#8217;s House of Assembly this week (it still needs to get through the Legislative Council).  The Minister for Workplace relations, Lisa Singh, highlighted the following components of the changes in a media release on 6 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4621&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OHS must raise its profile in the debate of directors&#8217; liability and accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global financial crisis has highlighted many business management issues.  Probably one of the most contentious is executive remuneration which is based on the question &#8220;should executives receive performance bonuses when the company is not performing well, ie. not returning profits to shareholders?&#8221;  But underpinning even this question is one of accountability.
Business leaders, commentators, lawyers and politicians are comfortable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4612&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asbestos is an example of immoral economic growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The financial newspapers often refere to a BRIC group of countries or, rather, economies.  This stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China and is used to describe the forecasted economic powerhouses for this century.  But there is also the risk of economic growth without morality.  India is a case in point and asbestos can be an example.
The health hazards of asbestos have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4607&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Safety Institute magazine is (mostly) a winner</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/new-safety-institute-magazine-is-mostly-a-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the Safety Institute of Australia has got its act together and has contracted someone who has produced an OHS magazine that, mostly, satisfies the needs of its members and the aims of the Institute.  
The first edition of OHS Professional landed in the SafetyAtWorkBlog letter box this morning and, it is fair to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4597&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New coronial approach should lead to greater safety information</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/new-coronial-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian State of Victoria has been in a fortuitous position with a Coroner, Graeme Johnstone, who was a staunch advocate of safety in the public and workplace spheres.  Johnstone was a strong and physical presence at many conferences and in the media.  Indeed, it would be difficult to find a more obvious and influential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4588&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Safety Ambassadors</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/australian-safety-ambassadors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Safe Work Australia introduced a program of safety ambassadors in the lead-up to Safe Work Australia Week 2009.  The editor of SafetyAtWorkBlog was chosen as one of this year&#8217;s ambassadors.  Kevin Jones was also featured in the authority&#8217;s newsletter, the Safe Work Australian, that is available for download.
There were no formal requirements of the title [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4582&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EHS workshop report and Australian nanoparticles reports</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/ehs-workshop-report-and-australian-nanoparticles-reports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2009 a workshop was held on worker safety by the  Worker Education and Training Program (WETP), a part of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Many of the topics raised in the workshop &#8211; REACH, Globally Harmonized System (GHS)  of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, and nanotechnology would be issues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4574&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Australian academic OHS journal</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/new-australian-academic-ohs-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 4 November 2009, the first edition of the Journal of Health &#38; Safety Research &#38; Practice began appearing in some Australian letter boxes.  This is the long-awaited, and long-promised, journal produced for members of the Safety Institute of Australia.  The three articles in this inaugural edition are very good but the format and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4565&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer heat, fatigue and UV &#8211; a speculative solution</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/summer-heat-fatigue-and-uv-a-speculative-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s pull together several workplace hazards and suggest one control measure that may address all of them at once.  Of course, the control may generate other work hazards or management challenges.
In Summer, work occurs throughout daylight hours.  The long days, and possibly daylight savings, maximise the window of productivity for workers, particularly those who work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4553&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good corporate advice tainted by poisonous product</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/good-corporate-advice-tainted-by-poisonous-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Matt Peacock&#8217;s book, &#8220;Killer Company&#8220;, an entire chapter is devoted to the legacy of the James Hardie chairman, John B Reid.  In Peacock&#8217;s talk at Trades Hall in October 2009, he mentioned that Reid had once published a book called &#8220;Commonsense Corporate Governance&#8221;.  The apparent hypocrisy of an executive of a company that knowingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4525&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Management &#8211; the importance of what comes before</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Duty of Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special guest for the Safe Work Australia events in Queensland was Matthew Gill, former Beaconsfield Gold mine manager.  According to a media statement from the Government
“Matthew Gill who was the public face of the Beaconsfield mine rescue will speak about how he immediately took control of the emergency and then implemented rescue operations for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4519&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amputations, shocks and burns &#8211; court cases</title>
		<link>http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/amputations-shocks-and-burns-court-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late October 2009, there were several OHS court cases in Australia that raise issues that need to be kept at the forefront of the thoughts of safety managers, safety professionals, workers and business owners.
Amputation
One case in South Australia identified the need to have sufficient detail in policies and procedures for workers to be safe.  The comment of Industrial Magistrate Michael [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com&blog=2858208&post=4508&subd=safetyatworkblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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