HR Compliance Library

In today’s legal environment, it is essential for you to adopt relevant HR compliance initiatives.  Whether it is occupational health and safety, industrial relations, sexual harassment or antidiscrimination laws, a business that isn’t aware of its HR responsibilities may be headed for legal ramifications.

As a manager dealing with employees, it is important you know the laws and develop appropriate policies in relation to the laws.

Compliance also requires you to communicate the policies to your staff and spell out the consequences if people do not follow suit.   To be truly successful, effective HR compliance programs need to be filtered down from the top of an organisation and all staff must be aware that the place of employment must be kept safe and discrimination will not be tolerated.

Industrial Relations

• 5 Things to Consider when making Redundancies
• Workplace Bullying - Reality or Myth?
• Managing a problem team member out of the workplace
• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination in the workforce
• Age discrimination: is it a real problem in the workplace?
• There is real value in diversity
• Gender equality still an issue
• Addressing workplace discipline
• HR or IT - someone has to tackle porn
• Parental leave - there's no turning back
• Putting a lid on absenteeism
• Blogging - an emerging issue
• Counter workplace violence
• Is bullying reducing productivity?
• Rules around harassment are strict
• When co-workers go bad

Occupational Health and Safety

Changing legislative requirements can make it difficult for employers to keep up to date with what is legally required. Our aim at Kelly Services is for zero injuries, and we hope that the information presented here will help you meet that aim as well.

OHS Trends and Issues

• How to diffuse office tension and conflict
• Be careful - employers are liable for Christmas party injuries
• How to manage violence and agression in the workplace
• Managing the safety of on-hired workers
• Cross border provisions for workers compensation
• State scheme news
• Global classification and labelling of chemicals
• Health promotion at work
• A safety mentality that drives your insurance rates down
• Drugs and alcohol
• Alcohol in the workplace
• Green issues for managers
• Safety first 
• Risk management code of practice 2007

Implementing OHS

• The role of workplace assessments
• The value of a safety committee
• WorkCover NSW self assessment

OHS Cases

• 2003-2004 Workers' Compensation Statistics
• ‘Common’ Manual Handling Injury
• New National Licensing Standard For Persons Performing High Risk Work 
• Victorian Worker’s Safety Concerns Ignored – Company Fined $150,000
• NSW WorkCover Small Business Information Sessions
• Victorian 2007/2008 Premium Changes
• Meat Hook In Face costs $20,000
• Forklift Death Costs $100,000
• Employee crushed betwen forklifts
• Unguarded Plant Kills Two Employees in two separate incidents

To learn more about Occupational Health and Safety best practice contact your Government department.

NSW:	www.workcover.nsw.gov.au
VIC:	www.worksafe.vic.gov.au
SA:	www.safework.sa.gov.au/
QLD:	www.dir.qld.gov.au/workplace/index.htm
WA:	www.worksafe.wa.gov.au
NT:	www.worksafe.nt.gov.au/
ACT:	www.workcover.act.gov.au/

New Zealand:

www.whss.govt.nz

Important Note:
The information contained herein is for information purposes only. Kelly Services (Australia) Ltd takes no responsibility for any liabilities that emerge based on the information contained within this website.