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What’s it like living and working on a Pacific Island?
For the last 5 months I have been living and working on Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia, three hours by plan off the east coast of Australia. I am on a 6-month contract which concludes in just over a week. I have written regularly over the psychological impacts of Fly-in, Fly-Out (FIFO) workers …

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The Royal Commission Needs Strong Consideration of OHS Actions and Consequences
The Victorian Government, under its new leader, Ben Carroll, has announced the “Royal Commission into the Integrity of Major Public and Civil Infrastructure Construction Projects in Victoria“. The Terms of Reference (ToR) have largely been praised for their breadth, but do they have any occupational health and safety (OHS) relevance? Early reporting of the government’s …

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Save the Player, Save the Game: Rethinking Brain Injury in Australian Football
I have been writing about how occupational health and safety should apply to professional contact sports for a few years. The emergence of concussion, traumatic brain injury, and CTE has changed how sports are managed and the sports themselves. I hope when you have 14 minutes to spare, perhaps on your smoko, walking at lunchtime …

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BHP Puts Safety First but Reports Sexual Harassment Under Sustainability
BHP has just released its Annual Report for the latest financial year, which includes occupational health and safety (OHS). The report places Safety as the opening chapter of the Annual Report. Symbolically, this matters even if the issues don’t feature in some of the preceding executive statements. If Safety is a number one priority, or …

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Businesses Want Maximum Productivity, But Will Workers Get a Maximum Temperature?
In the Northern Hemisphere, workers are again facing dangerous summer heat. In a few months, it will be the Southern Hemisphere’s turn. Climate extremes are producing droughts, wildfires, and crop failures. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s becoming easier to see how the world ends, and how work and business will be …

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