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Tag: Workplace Safety

  • The Boundary Shift: Why SWA’s New Incident Notification Framework is a Corporate Vulnerability

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    Drew McGiffert
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    5–8 minutes

    The upcoming integration of Safe Work Australia’s (SWA) model WHS incident notification amendments represents the most disruptive structural shift in safety governance since the 2011 harmonization. Driven by recommendations from Marie Boland’s independent review, these changes legally codify systemic oversight for psychological harm, psychosocial hazards, and non-injury operational failures. For executive leadership, this eliminates the…

  • Retrospective Analysis: The Collapse of the Ferro Con Premium Shield

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    Drew McGiffert
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    2–4 minutes

    A structural review of our 2013 analytical draft on Hillman v Ferro Con (SA) Pty Ltd exposes a profound transformation in corporate governance. What was flagged over a decade ago as a “controversial loophole” and a “steady corporate trend” has been entirely systematically dismantled. Looking at the 2013 text through a modern investigative lens reveals…

  • Addressing Workplace Violence: The Landmark WorkSafe ACT Regulatory Precedent in Education

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    Drew McGiffert
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    4–5 minutes

    Enforceable Undertakings (EUs) have historically been utilized to resolve physical, site-specific safety breaches, such as an industrial firm investing in physical infrastructure upgrades following a fall from height. However, a retrospective analysis of a landmark 2018 regulatory action by WorkSafe ACT reveals how the application of these enforcement mechanisms permanently expanded, establishing that systemic occupational…

  • The Fallacy of Shared Space: Forklift Segregation and the Cost of Administrative Tolerance

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    Drew McGiffert
    886 words
    4–6 minutes

    Within industrial warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing floors, the interaction between heavy materials handling equipment and pedestrian workers is an everyday operational reality. Because these spaces require constant cohabitation to maintain throughput, management teams often default to an dangerous operational assumption: that safety can be effectively governed by verbal warnings, high-visibility vests, and lines painted…

  • Its on! Black Friday and more injuries

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    Drew McGiffert
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    2–3 minutes

    Fights have erupted in more than one Walmart discount department store during its Black Friday sales promotion.

  • Talk about exciting

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    Drew McGiffert
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    2–3 minutes

    In September 2010 I received an out of the blue call from SafeWorkSA about a nomination in the 2010 South Australian SafeWork Awards. The call was to set up an interview to discuss the work I had been doing at Harris Scarfe and the impact on safety I had in my short two years in…