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There is an increase in workplace sexual harassment and rape …
- August 28, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
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Women continue to remain “largely oppressed and exploited”, according to the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). The commission had observed with great interest the heightened activism in addressing gender equality by multi-sector organisations, the CGE said in a statement. “Informed by its own studies on gender transformation that looked at the mining sector, institutions of
Demand for OHS professionals grows with increase in legislation
- August 2, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
The demand for professionals in the health and safety fields is growing with the global increase in health and safety laws and regulations and the increase in personal injury litigation. ” data-lazyauto=”true”>“Maintaining health and safety in the workplace is a legal requirement for all businesses and most companies require qualified and trained staff to look
Stats show increase in US fatal workplace shootings
- June 11, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fatal workplace shootings, like the one Monday in Orlando, Fla., are ticking upward in the United States, government statistics show. Revenge against an employer, romantic partner or co-workers often is the motive, experts say. Reports of workplace violence are quick to spread across social media. “It really all boils down pretty much
Workplace Health and Safety Penalties – Potential to Increase
- May 6, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
The Queensland District Court has this week found that a fine of $ 90,000 imposed by the Queensland Magistrates Court in Williamson v VH & MG Imports Pty Ltd [2017] QDC 56 was “clearly manifestly inadequate” when compared with fines imposed in other harmonised jurisdictions under the model Workplace Health and Safetylaws. The ruling affirms
Pre-employment drug testing shows increase in meth use by …
- March 28, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Global Safety News
CHRIS SKELTON/FAIRFAX NZ The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) chief executive Kirk Hardy, right, with director of research and development Dr Paul Fitzmaurice. An increasing number of white-collar job seekers are testing positive for methamphetamine, a drug testing firm boss says. About 13.4 per cent of all positive pre-employment drug tests last year detected methamphetamine, according to figures from
Despite opposition, medical resident work hours to increase
- March 11, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Overseas Occupational Health And Safety News
Chicago – Medical residents and fellows, including first-year residents, will be able to work for up to 28 consecutive hours without sleep as part of revised requirements recently approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The requirements, scheduled to go into effect July 1, replace the former limit of 16 consecutive work hours
Researchers link increase in eye injuries among kids to laundry detergent pods
- February 23, 2017
- Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
- Category: Overseas Occupational Health And Safety News
Baltimore – An increase in eye injuries among preschool-aged children has been tied to laundry detergent pods, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University. Using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, the researchers examined data on eye injuries resulting in a chemical burn or pink eye in children ages 3 to 4 from 2010 to
