Mark Small recently contributed to a white paper on work culture and safety in the workplace.

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The much-anticipated updated WA safety regulations will commence as of March 31, 2022. These laws modernise our health and safety laws and provide improved protections for all Western Australian workers.

Safety culture is something that we seem to intuitively understood to be important. The very nature of the words seems to indicate that it should be important.

It is therefore understandable that safety culture has received so much focus and attention.

Professor Erik Hollnagel presented to members of the Safety Institute of Australia at Edith Cowan University

An important function of Safety and Health Representatives is to inspect the workplace. These inspections are a really great opportunity to continually improve safety.

A Safety and Health Representative can improve Safety within the workplace like no other person can.

Safety and Health Representatives or Safety Reps are elected by co-workers to represent them in consultation about safety and health matters with the employer.