Please click here to view all speaker presentations. You can download the powerpoint slides by clicking on the images on the left. Recordings of the presentations are currently being developed and uploaded as they become available.

Recordings currently available include:

• Hugh Denehy Oration - presented by Dr Joel Silbert
• The impact of sustained hot weather on risk of acute work-related injury in Melbourne - Winner of the David Goddard Best Paper Award 2017, presented by Prof Malcolm Sim
• Employer strategies to prevent psychosocial injuries - presented by Kathryn Jones

Click here to access Kathryn Jones' recording

Workplace stressors rarely occur in isolation, and the effects of combined stressors can be insidious, increasing the risk of psychosocial stress injuries. "Fixing" the individual worker is only half the battle of dealing with work-related stress injuries, instead employers must also proactively address organisational factors. 

Jones examines five processes that needs to be in place to avoid regulatory scrutiny and action around the risk of psychosocial. These include:

• Setting behaviour standards
• Ensuring good work design
• Facilitating respectful working relationships
• Following effective reporting, response and grievance procedures
• Providing training on standards of behaviour

- summary adapted from OHS Alert

Follow the links below to read OHS Alert's 2-part article on Kathryn Jones' presentation:

• Part 1: Combined stressors increase risks exponentially (pdf)
• Part 2: Five safety processes that prevent injuries and scrutiny (pdf)

About OHS Alert:
OHS Alert provides doctors, nurses, lawyers, OHS managers and unions with news on all the latest developments in the field of occupational medicine and health. Visit www.ohsalert.com.au for more information.

Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to preventing occupational disease around the world. Over the past few years, WHWB has sent experienced professionals to provide basic OHS training in some countries and engage in projects to reduce exposure of workers to hazards like asbestos and silica. We invite you to review this fact sheet and visit our website to learn more about our activities.

You can also learn more by attending the upcoming webathon on December 4th, 1pm Eastern Standard Time. 

Monday, December 4, 2017, 1 pm EST - Online Webathon
Topics:

• Why Global Occupational Health is important for everyone - Marianne Levitsky
• The problem of child labour in the 21st century - Susan Gunn
• Occupational hazards in Nepal brick plants: an example of what WHWB is doing - Steve Thygerson
• Risk communication - David Zalk

RSVP: http://bit.ly/2mBkCU3
For more information: http://bit.ly/2jfZLAp

The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) is inviting Occupational Health Physicians to contribute and add value to an initiative on preventing and managing work-related musculoskeletal disorders in Western Australia.

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