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Safe Work Austraha (2011) Work-Related Traumatic Injury Fatalities, Australia 2008-09 (Canberra, ACT Safe Work Australia). 

Australia adopted this approach with the National Occupational Health and Safety Strategy in 2002. The strategy involved the Commonwealth, six states, and two territories. A publication by Safe Work Australia illustrates how to manage workplace safety and health under the overall approach. The implementation extends to worker levels using risk analysis and the hierarchy of controls. Figure 5-1 provides an example of a worker-level card to help in decision-making. 

Safe Work Australia, Work-Related Injuries and Fatalities Involving a Fall from Height, Australia, October 2013. 

Safe Work Australia, Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice, 2009. Available at www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/ swa/about/publications/Documents/632/Managing the risk of falls at Workplaces.pdf... 

Safe Work Australia, 2009a. Evidence on the Effectiveness of Workplace Controls to Prevent Exposure to Engineered Nanomateiials. Draft for Einal Comment. SWA, Melbourne. 

There is a (Safe Work Australia, 2013) great definition of elements of what constitutes a reasonably practicable level ... 

Safe Work Australia. 2013. How to Determine What Is Reasonably Practicable to Meet a Health and Safety Duty. May 2013, p. 4, http //www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/ SWA/about/Publications/Documents/774/Guide-Reasonably-Practicable.pdf, downloaded May 20, 2014. 

Safe Work Australia http //www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sites/SWA. 

Safe Work Australia (2011) and Giedraityte (2005) Safe Work Australia (2011) and US Department of Health and Human Services (1985). 

Risk can be defined as the possibility that harm (death, injury or illness) might occur when exposed to a hazard (Safe Work Australia, 2011). Figure 2 shows the proposed risk-based approach for eliminating and/or managing the occupational hazards associated with the handling of drilling wastes in the harsh, remote and sensitive Arctic environment. The proposed risk-based approach... 

Safe Work Australia. 2011. How to manage work health and scfety risks Code of practice Australia. 

Images in the presentation on Safe Working Platform by the Federation of Piling Specialists (UK) or Piling and Foundation Specialist Federation (Australia). 

Job Safety Analysis Introduction, Work Safe Western Australia, http //WWW. safetyline. wa. gov. au/institute/le vel 1 /cour se6/ lectureiy/ 117 01.asp. 

The organizations that actually pay for medicines — governments, insurers and so on—have only recently started to use the power conferred by their expenditure. A consequence is that a drug company has not only to show that its new product is safe and works, but also that it is cost-effective. In Australia, this has been spelled out in legislation. Since 1993, any drug submitted for approval there must be accompanied not only by the results of clinical trials but also by an economic impact analysis. In 1999 the UK set up a National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) to advise the National Health Service on the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies. Other countries ask formally or informally for pharmacoeconomic analysis. Economic impacts can be measured in a variety of ways, for example, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility or fuU cost-benefit studies. 

Zenobia Talati is an Industrial/Organisational Psychology Masters and PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia Through her work as a research assistant, she has developed expertise in the areas of leadership, organisational culture/climate, workplace safely, safety leadership and proactivily. She has also co-authored a chapter on how leaders can improve employee safely behaviours and safety culture in high risk industries. 

In many applications it is necessary to produce a safety case outline by the operator prior to developing a safety case. (Ref MHF regulation). MHF stands for major hazard facilities (such as oil refinery, chemical plants). MHF regulation is applicable for working in these facilities in Australia, and for working safe in these areas there are some obligations to be met with. In UK similar regulation is in place in the name of control of major accident hazards (COMAH). 

In Guidance on the Principles of Safe Design for Work, comments are made about the results of a study on the contribution that the design of machinery and equipment has on the incidence of fatalities and injuries in Australia. They say ... 

GeUer, E. Scott. Letter to Editor. Professional Safety, December, 2011. Guidance on the Principles of Safe Design for Work. Canberra, Australia Australian Safety and Compensation Council, an entity of the Australian Government, 2006. 

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