Category: Blogs

It’s only October: why your Christmas shutdown planning starts now

Have your employees started submitting leave requests for December? Do your bar staff want to know the Christmas roster? Maybe an employee has used up their annual leave and doesn’t …

Recruitment, retention and growth: getting onboarding right

Structured onboarding, a deliberate first 90 days rather than a pile of paperwork, is one of the most overlooked levers for retention, productivity and culture. Organisations that invest in it …

The five-stage check: how equipped is your business to manage psychosocial risk?

Take our 30-second test to find your psychosocial safety system’s stage and how to advance it to the next stage.

Worker consultation isn’t optional

“What we often see is businesses feel confident because they have HR policies or an EAP – but they don’t meet expectations under safety law.” — Ali King, Safety & …

Behaviour, systems and symbols: what actually builds a safety culture, and where to start

A system works when it’s smooth, easy to navigate, and transparent.

Recruiting for success: how to hire and where to find talent

Recruitment can often seem overly complicated and challenging, even though it’s a vital part of business operations. Hiring the right employees can determine a business’s success or failure. This article …

Where psychosocial risk hides – and why most systems miss it

Across hundreds of workplace risk surveys, four patterns show up consistently, often before a single risk is ever formally reported. 

The clue isn’t in the name: proposed non-compete reforms reach much further

Restraint clauses like non-competes, non-solicits and confidentiality restrictions appear across nearly every sector. Almost half of Australian businesses use some form of restraint clause, with the Government estimating more than …

An HSR’s use of Provisional Improvement Notices during bargaining puts safety in the spotlight

Around 600 Qantas Ground Services workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of protected industrial action during bargaining for an enterprise agreement, significantly impacting airport operations.

Eight boxes to tick before you terminate anyone

In our recent webinar, Termination without tears, we asked our participants about their termination process: 56 per cent of attendees had faced, or come close to facing, an unfair dismissal …