TSK Training for skills and knowledge to promote safety officer course in rawalpindi has created their national "Speak Up" campaign. The campaign is designed to empower employees to know their rights and have confidence to voice OH&S matters with the main focus being to reduce death, injury and illness at work.
The campaign about safety officer course in rawalpindi provides all workers should:
- Have the option to deny an unsafe work task
- Know all safety hazards involved in their job role
- Be granted access to a qualified safety-officer to represent any occupational health and safety issue
- Overall have an acceptable working environment
The new harmonisation of occupational health and safety laws brought in on 1 January 2012 bring significant changes workplaces need to be aware of.
- Though the model is labelled a 'Framework' each state will govern under separate legislation mimicking that framework
- Individual fines are up to $600,000 or 5 years imprisonment
- Company officers have due diligence requirements
- Company officers have a positive to prevent risk to safety
- Volunteers are now immune
- Fines increase to 3 million for corporate offences
- Obligations are placed on persons conducting business rather than the employers (small businesses and organisations are included)
- The Act makes clearer obligations towards the duties of contractors, referring to workers rather than employees
- All clients and visitors to workplaces have duties
- Consultation is required between all workers rather than employees
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