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The Health & Safety Handbook is a comprehensive easy-to-understand A-Z guide to workplace safety that is 100% compliant with Australia's laws.

The Health & Safety Handbook is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand A-Z guide to workplace safety that is 100% compliant with Australia’s complex health and safety laws. It’s full of practical advice, handy tips and real solutions for all your workplace safety issues, and is designed specifically to help you understand and meet your health and safety duties. Plus, it contains information on the relevant legislation for every jurisdiction in Australia, so no matter what state or territory your business operates in, you can rest assured you’ll be covered! The handbook is written by a team of experts led by Editor-in-Chief Michael Selinger of Holding Redlich Lawyers, and is updated regularly to ensure you keep up-to-date with any new developments or changes to legislation.

08/09/2026

A sole-trader electrician who appealed infringement notices was sentenced to perform 60 hours of community service for failing to ensure compliance with a safe work method statement and ensuring a person did not come within an unsafe distance of an overhead powerline: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/appeal-of-infringement-notices-results-in-60-hours-of-community-service/

04/09/2026

What constitutes gross negligence under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)? Find out in the Health & Safety Handbook: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/question-and-answer/what-is-gross-negligence/

01/09/2026

A printing and logistics business was successful in appealing a Magistrate Court’s decision to record a conviction against it for an incident involving a worker being entangled in an unguarded guillotine machine, while the $30,000 penalty remained in place: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/appeal-results-in-rewinding-recorded-conviction-for-printing-company/

28/08/2026

A company was fined $140,000 following a runaway truck causing damage to the property of four businesses: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/case-law/unoccupied-truck-weaves-path-of-destruction-after-safety-system-failure/

25/08/2026

Safe Work Australia has initiated a period of consultation following feedback about the need for greater clarity and improvement more broadly with air monitoring: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/do-you-have-the-answers-to-these-7-questions-about-airborne-contaminants/

18/08/2026

A Victorian water tank company was convicted and fined $50,000 after a 20-year-old engineering student fell into an unprotected excavation at a residential construction site: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/water-tank-company-fined-50-000-for-students-fall/

13/08/2026

A contractor and customer ordered to pay compensation to a retail worker they sexually harassed: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/case-law/contractors-and-customers-caught-by-the-fair-work-act-2009-cth-sexual-harassment-provisions/

11/08/2026

A building contractor was found to have failed to protect its workers when it directed them to undertake incidental works using a grout gun, which resulted in an apprentice suffering an injury to the eye: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/building-contractor-in-firing-line-following-grout-gun-incident/

06/08/2026

When can workers apply to the Fair Work Commission for a stop sexual harassment order? Find out: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/question-and-answer/when-can-a-worker-make-a-stop-sexual-harassment-application/

04/08/2026

A façade contractor has gone into liquidation after being fined $400,000 following a catastrophic collapse of the roof of the Kew Recreational Centre during its redevelopment in 2022. Find out about this case in the latest bulletin: https://www.healthandsafetyhandbook.com.au/bulletin/catastrophic-roof-collapse-costs-contractor-400-000-in-fines/

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