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What are the 3 principles of WSHA replacing Factories Act from 1 March 2006?

• Reducing risk at source by requiring all stakeholders to eliminate or minimize the risk they create at the workplace

• Instilling greater industry ownership of OSH standards. The focus will be shifted from complying with the prescriptive requirements to making employers responsible for developing work and safety procedures suited to their particular situations in order to achieve desired safety outcome

• Preventing accidents through higher penalties for poor safety and health management

• Preventing accidents through lower penalties for poor safety and health management

What are the key changes WSHA replaces the factories act from 1 March 2006?

• It specifies liabilities for a range of persons at the workplace instead of focusing on the occupier.

• It focuses on effective management of workplace safety and health to achieve a safe outcome instead of prescribing rules.

• It stipulates greater penalties for compromising safety and health.

• Greater government intervention, more prescriptive rules and heavier penalties.

What does WSH Act covers?

• All workplaces, unless exempted

• Responsibilities of stakeholders

• Hazardous substances

• Machinery and equipment

Including Veterinary activities, Healthcare activities, Hotels and restaurants, what other new sectors are covered in the expanded WSH Act in Mar 2008?

• Services allied to the transport of goods, such as logistics, freight forwarding and cargo surveying services

• Landscape care and maintenance service activities, such as grass-cutting

• Water supply, sewerage and waste management, such as refuse disposal

• Military force

What is the new principles?

• To change Mindsets & culture

• To change Mindsets & Community

• To change Thinking & Culture

• To change Thinking & Community

What are the WSH four key features?

• It places responsibilities on stakeholders who have it within their control to ensure safety at the workplace.

• It focuses on workplace safety and health systems and outcomes, rather than merely on compliance.

• It facilitates effective enforcement through the issuance of remedial orders.

• It imposes higher penalties for non-compliance and risky behaviour.

• No jail term for offenders

Who are the stakeholders?

• Employer: As an employer, you must protect the safety and health of your employees or workers working under your direction, as well as persons who may be affected by their work.

• Principal: A principal is any person or organisation who engages another person or organisation to supply labour or perform work under a contract for service.

• Occupier: In workplaces registered or notified as a factory, the occupier is the person who holds the certificate of registration. In all other workplaces, the occupier is the person who has control of the premises, regardless of whether they are the owner of those premises.

• Manufacturer or supplier: As a manufacturer or supplier, you must ensure that any machinery and equipment or hazardous substances you provide are safe.

• Employee and self-employed

From managing risk to identifying & eliminating risks before they are created.

From compliance with "Letter of the Law" to proactive planning to achieve a safe workplace.

From accidents are costly to poor safety management is costlier.