Comments on: OHS Review Issues paper https://safetyatworkblog.com/2008/05/30/ohs-review-issues-paper/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Col Finnie https://safetyatworkblog.com/2008/05/30/ohs-review-issues-paper/#comment-117 Sat, 31 May 2008 04:01:17 +0000 http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-117 Had a fairly quick read of the issues paper. I plan to do a submission. Fifteen years either writing or supervising the writing of Victoria’s OHS laws, 3 years heading up the guidance material writing unit at WorkSafe Victoria and now about 4 years working in my own OHS business has me more than interested in the outcome of this review.

An initial unsettling feeling I got from the issues paper is the sense that the review group may be looking to throw everything on the table. I got the impression that the terms of reference were fundamentally about finding out what good stuff is already in place and how do we get to a national OHS Act that is a of “best of the best” national OHS law. Lots of the prompt questions in the issues paper don’t seem to have that flavour.

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