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How to Develop Your Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Committee

October 27th, 2011

Article by Dowell Solutions

Moving your Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Committee from non functional to highly functional and effective can be a dream come true to some employers. To others it is a way to ensure they meet their legislative requirements and complete tasks that ensure proactive risk management is continually occurring. By having and allowing others to perform hazard identification, risk assessments and incident investigation. It can reduced the pressure on front line managers/supervisors and OHS Officer.

Following are some ideas on how to further develop your OHS committee into a functional and effective group.

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Future Challenges – Occupational Health Safety

October 27th, 2011

Article by Aazdak Alisimo

It has become clear that the very nature of work has changed in the past few generations. What are the future challenges facing the occupational health and safety field?

Just about everything has changed as a result of a technological revolution that has swept over the developed world in the last quarter of a century. The changes have impacted our day to day life and they have impacted our workplaces. Some of these work related changes have been studied and already there has been some understanding of them and efforts to deal with them. Others are still not understood and in some cases, not even recognized. Stress related problems and ergonomics have become serious work place issues. What are the future challenges of occupational health safety?

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