This year Western Australia’s theme for Safe Work Month was Health and safety is everybody’s business.
WorkSafe hosted two in-person forums, each with the option to join online, featuring expert industry speakers who shared ideas and practical approaches across priority topics. The forums were well attended, with 585 in-person and 503 online registrations across both.
EveryBODY matters – musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) forum
On Tuesday 15 October at Optus Stadium, a range of industry experts discussed this nationally prioritised work health and safety topic.
This forum was for everyone with an interest in making workplaces healthier and safer from a human factors and ergonomics perspective. The topics below were covered:
- a keynote speech on the urgent need to address psychosocial hazards in MSD prevention
- risk management of hazardous manual tasks
- WA’s workers’ compensation and injurymanagement scheme
- personal impacts of chronic MSD injuries
- manual handling risks, technology and engagement
- MSD factors in handling patients from a health and safety representative’s perspective
- scenarios brought to life by actors to explore organisational and personal mindsets and practices around MSD.
Farm safety matters – agricultural safety forum
On Friday 25 October at the Bunbury Mantra, sector experts and WorkSafe’s agricultural safety inspectors covered priority topics and provided ideas and practical approaches for establishing good safety practices on farms.
WorkSafe Commissioner Sally North introduced a program of topics based on the priorities in WorkSafe’s First steps to farm safety: Guide:
- machinery guarding
- quad bikes and side-by-side risk management
- hazardous chemicals
- electrical hazards
- children on farms
- safe sheds.
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