Workplace Health & Safety

Aitken Legal can assist you with many aspects of workplace health and safety - including:

• advising on obligations of employers, employees, directors, managers, suppliers, contractors and sub-contractors;
• preparing policies and procedures or reviewing existing ones;
• providing a "checklist" for workplace health and safety to assist in meeting the obligations under the legislation;
• providing workplace health and safety training to staff, this can be general or tailored to meet business needs;
• conducting investigations into accidents or dangerous occurrences in the workplace;
• advising in relation to workplace health and safety obligations where an employee is working from home;
• advising in relation to how to deal with notices issued under the Workplace Health and Safety Act; and
• representing employers in workplace health and safety prosecutions, including making applications for enforceable undertakings to avoid a conviction being recorded.

We can advise not only on taking preventative measures to avoid workplace safety incidents, but also about the best way to handle incidents if and when they do occur. We can assist you to respond pro-actively to a workplace safety incident, often advising about how to conduct internal investigations and to deal with inspections and investigations conducted by the Division of Workplace Health and Safety (including representing employees, managers and directors who are interviewed by the Division).

Lisa Aitken also has extensive experience in managing and representing clients in prosecutions of alleged breaches of the legislation.

If you have a Workplace Health and Safety issue you need advice about; if you need a policy or some training; or if you are being prosecuted for allegedly breaching the legislation, please give Aitken Legal a call.