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World Day for Safety and Health at Work

The 28th April is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. This global initiative aims to raise awareness of the problem of occupational accidents and diseases. The Union movement International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers is also on 28th April.

Conducting research and education to improve health and safety performance is a key goal of ECU School of Medical and Health Sciences. We celebrate the success of our researchers and graduates who contribute to this goal. Most of our research work is available freely from the researchers staff page, or, the online research portal. Why not have a look?

Bobbie Selleck's research has developed a process to improve fatality risk on construction sites, and communicated this process via a series of publications. Bobbie commented

"High risk work activities can be effectively controlled. The challenge organisations have is the consistent implementation of critical controls in the workplace. Our research identified implementation of critical controls varied between 47% to 73% and are unreliable in controlling the risks. Research continues to identify the factors affecting critical control reliability. Together with industry we are developing strategies to improve critical control management in the field.

Marcus Cattani, Senior Lecturer in OHS and expert member of the WA Commissioner Agricultural Safety Advisory Committee, commented:

"The national work health and safety strategy clearly lays out our priorities for the next 10 years! Top of the industry list is Agriculture, top of the causes is vehicles and slip, trips and falls, and many organisations need to do better in managing psychological risk and respiratory disease. We often have a solution in one industry, like Bobbie has done with the construction industry, so our challenge is working out how to translate these techniques to other industries. To assist with improvements in the workplace and collaboration we have made most of our research work available for free, via the University Repository or the Researchers Staff Page"

Professor Jacques Oosthuizen commented

"Looking at the strategy, I can see that we are involved in a wide range of projects which contribute to improvements in safety and health. I am particularly interested in worker exposure to hazardous substances. Amongst over 20 PhD students in OHS and Environmental Health, one is looking at the toxicity of dusts generated during lithium mining, and, another is looking at exposures of volunteer fire-fighters in Western Australia and the toxicity associated with various types of vegetation smoke"

Pathogenic Potential of Respirable Spodumene Cleavage Fragments following Application of Regulatory Counting Criteria for Asbestiform Fibres

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Proposal for and validation of novel risk-based process to reduce the risk of construction site fatalities (Major Accident Prevention (MAP) program)

Pathogenic Potential of Respirable Spodumene Cleavage Fragments following Application of Regulatory Counting Criteria for Asbestiform Fibres

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