HeyJaredSafetyAtWorkBlog
SafetyAtWorkBlog is an award-winning blog written in Australia that reports on, and discusses, a range of issues that relate to workplace safety.
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- Sep 3, 2026
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SAWB - Construction Industry Royal Commission (opens the original)
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This episode examines Victoria’s new Royal Commission into the integrity of major construction projects, arguing that occupational health and safety must be treated as more than a compliance phrase or political shield. I explore how safety can be used, ignored or manipulated across procurement, government contracts, builders and unions, and ask whether the inquiry will confront the shared responsibility behind unsafe or unethical practices in the construction sector. For the full article with qu
SAWB - BHP Annual Report (opens the original)
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This commentary offers a critical look at BHP’s latest Annual Report, exploring how the company presents safety, how it buries sexual harassment data in its Sustainability chapter, and why psychosocial hazards deserve to sit alongside traditional injury metrics. It reflects on the cultural challenges of retrofitting modern OHS expectations into a 141 year old organisation, questions the effectiveness of BHP’s prevention claims, and argues for greater transparency, stronger contractor oversight a
SAWB - Concussion and CTE in Sports (opens the original)
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This episode examines concussion, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), duty of care and occupational health and safety in Australian sport, drawing on many SafetyAtWorkBlog articles about the AFL, Nick Lowden, player welfare, junior football, contact training, compensation and the limits of “awareness” as a safety response. It asks whether professional sport should be treated more clearly as work, whether repeated head impacts are a foreseeable workplace hazard, and what sporting bodies must
SAWB - HR and Burnout (opens the original)
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This episode looks at the HR spin on burnout and exposes what’s really going on: unsafe work design and breached OHS duties. Using a recent media story about a government IT contract demanding 24/7 availability, I ask why psychosocial hazards aren’t “invisible threats”; they’re predictable outcomes of poor procurement, bad management, and ignored legal obligations. Burnout isn’t complex through an OHS lens: redesign the work, resource it properly, and stop pretending prevention is optional. For
SAWB - Farm Safety Week 2026 (opens the original)
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This episode explores how Farm Safety Week continues to repeat familiar themes while WorkSafe Victoria quietly shifts its messaging toward the real issue: farmers becoming desensitised to risk. Drawing on Sam Jenkin’s recent Country Hour interview and WorkSafe’s powerful new farm safety advertisement, the monologue examines the fine line regulators must walk between honesty and diplomacy, the dangers of normalising hazardous tasks, and the role of engineering controls, PPE and personal responsib
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