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For the latest news and updates in Work Health & Safety across UNSW Campuses check out the WHS Newsletters below.

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    February 2024

    Highlights

    • Switch on for Safety
    • Reportable Incidents
    • Safety Alerts: Electrical hazard inside ceiling spaces; Electrolytic; Organic Peroxides Safety
    • Managing Psychosocial Risk
    • Bystander workshops
    • Laboratory Gown Shortage in Biocontainment Facilities
    • Safeguard UNSW Data by Reporting Data Breaches
    • TELUS Health Webinar
    • ‘2 Be Safe’ Notepad
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • UNSW Asbestos Register

    February 2023

    Highlights

    • Switch on for Safety
    • Benestar Webinar - Career Satisfaction
    • Shatter Fume Cupboard Panel
    • Changes in Jaggaer
    • Do you ever need to work at heights?
    • Plastic water bottles left in the Sun start a fire !!
    • Remember, Speak Up for Safety !!
    • Black Dog Webinar
    • Hello Safety!
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • Parents at Work Program in 2023
    • Pedestrian Safety around Trams

    Highlights

    • Vehicle Control Access Barriers
    • Come to the Destination Go Launch Party!
    • The Importance of Timely Incident Reporting
    • Thoughtful Disposal of General Waste
    • Benestar Webinar - Resilence 101
    • Lab Equipment Fire
    • Broken Dewars
    • Managing Kids' Screen Time: Strategies for Safe Technology Use
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention

    June 2023

    Highlights

    • The 5 Why's Technique for Incident Investigations
    • Safety Alert May 2023
    • Bicycles on Campus
    • Benestar Webinar - Communicating Clearly
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention

    October 2023

    Highlights

    • A message from the Director of Safety, Karl Baumgartner
    • Safety Alerts: Preventing Finger Injuries, Cryogenic Gloves & General Li-ion Batteries
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Managing Your Financial Wellbeing

    February 2022

    Highlights

    • Are you monitoring the condition of your chemicals?
    • Desk-Based Stretching Classes are back?
    • Managing the risk of solar UV radiation
    • Purchasing Chemicals
    • Step Ladder Safety
    • Black Dog Institute Workshop for Staff
    • WHS Monitor Training is Back
    • Recognise & Respons - Suicide Prevention
    • Jaggaer Update to version 21.2
    • Re-evaluate and Reboot Your Career in 2022
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Medibank Health Insurance Reviews

    March 2022

    Highlights

    • Power Tool Battery Fires
    • Speak Up
    • Mental Health is Everybody's Business
    • Deadly Tick-Borne Disease confirmed in QLD
    • Security Sensitive Materials
    • WHS Monitor Training is Back!
    • Building Resilence to Workplace Stress
    • Accidental Discharge of Fire Extinguisher
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • Hydrothermal Pressure Vessel Safety Traning Video
    • Bully-proof Your Child
    • Benestar Webinar-Managing Pressure
    • Gut-Microbiome and Adaption to Exercise
    • Hazard & Incident Reporting Procedure-HS307
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Safety Leadership Tours
    • Personal Electrical Appliance - Electrical Shock

    April 2022

    Highlights

    • New Health and Wellbeing Event for UNSW Staff
    • Flu Vaccines 2022
    • BeneStar Webinar - Communicating Clearly
    • Safety Responsibilities in Shared Spaces
    • Administering First Aid Treatment 
    • WHS Duties in a Contractual Chain
    • Safety Alert: Incorrect Use of Dangerous Goods (DG) Cabinets
    • Check your Electrical Cables before Each Use
    • Recognise & Respond -Suicide Prevention
    • Don't Walk on By
    • Mental Health Insurance Reviews

    Highlights

    • Get Ready for VP Go!
    • Benestar Webinar - Balancing  Your Life
    • Swollen Laptop Batteries
    • Flu Vaccines 2022
    • Japanese Encephalitis
    • Mental Wellbeing: Supporting Children after Major Events
    • Fully Enclose Footwear in Our Research Facilities 
    • Working with Hydrofluoric acid (HF) and HF precursors
    • How to Dictate a Document a Document in Microsoft Word
    • Recognise & Respond -Suicide Prevention
    • Legacy Chemicals and Poor Storage
    • Slips, Trips and Falls
    • Mental Health First Aid for Staff
    • Medibank Health Insurance Review

    June 2022

    Highlights

    • Second Hand Equipment
    • Benestar Webinar - Resilience 101
    • Legacy Chemicals
    • Desk-Based Stretching and Pilates
    • Chemicals and Samples Stored in Offices
    • BioRisk Management Procedure
    • Empowering Children: Developing Health Self-Esteem
    • The Push-Up Challenge
    • Financial Wellbeing and Your Mental Health
    • New Safety Standards for the Scaffolding Industry
    • Do you have high blood pressure?
    • Stolen Vehicle on Campus
    • Retiring Well - Superfriends Webinar
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • Incident Reporting
    • Near Miss or Hazard?
    • WHS Monitor Training
    • Medibank Health Insurance Review

    July 2022

    Highlights

    • LEAF- A new approach to sustainability in Laboratories at UNSW
    • Rest Breaks
    • Benestar Webinar - Dealing with Anger
    • Disposal of Chemical Waste
    • Health and Safety Policy Update
    • Benestar on Campus
    • Managing Psychosocial Risk Factor at Work
    • Is Your Trailer safely attached?
    • Drinking and Eating in Labs
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • Medibank Health Insurance Review
    • Plastic Free July

    August 2022

    Highlights

    • Consultation on managing the risk of respirable crystalline silica
    • R U OK? Thursday 8 Sept 2022
    • Adverse Health Effects of Welding
    • Having an R U OK Conversation with a Peer
    • Take the Challenge
    • Lodge Reports Online
    • Hazardous Manual Tasks
    • Project Ibis - EM tackles tricky situation!
    • Worker Understanding of Worker's Compensation
    • Jaggaer Update to version 22.1
    • SIRA Quarterly Meetings
    • Notification of Injury
    • Recognise & Respond -Suicide Prevention
    • Medibank Health Insurance Reviews
    • Work from Home (WFH)

    October 2022

    Highlights

    • Are you currently working from home (WFH)?
    • Health, Safety and Wellbeing Month - Safety Events
    • Health, Safety and Wellbeing Month - Wellbeing Events
    • Safety in Conversation
    • Protecting Yourself Online
    • Think Safe - Be Safe - Home Safe
    • Speak Up for Safety !
    • Psychosocial Risk Now Included in WHS Regulations
    • Trips and Falls on Staircase
    • Electric, Shock - Changing a Light Globe
    • Safety Management system Update
    • Recognise & Respond - Suicide Prevention
    • Medibank Health Insurance Reviews

    December 2022

    Highlights

    • Chemical Engineering's 100th Safety Committee Meeting
    • It's Party Time!
    • Star Contractor
    • UNSW is a Smoke-Free and Vape -Free Environment
    • Vacuum Filtration Failure
    • Accessing Australian/New Zealand Standards
    • Recognise & Respond- Suicide Prevention 

    February 2021

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • Uprise
    • Reminder - Dispose of Waste Correctly in Labs
    • SafeWork NSW Accommodation Guide
    • Preparing for the new normal
    • Person Injury Commission
    • Flammable Liquid Spill
    • New Diesel and Dust Thresholds
    • Medibank One-on-One Consultations
    • Lesson Learned

    July 2021

    Highlights

    • A thankyou - Adam and Alecia
    • WHS Monitor is Live!
    • Benestart is here for you during lockdown
    • Biological Safety Cabinets(BCSs) - Use  & Testing Tips
    • Environmental Sustainability Survey
    • Working from Home
    • Desk-Based Stretching 
    • Safe Work Australia - Grant Opportunity
    • Family Wellbeing Program
    • Good news for research imports
    • Hazardous Chemical Fact Sheets
    • Formaldehyde - A Priority Chemicals
    • Biosafety Cabinet Alert

    September 2021

    Highlights

    • R U OK? Day
    • Clean Air. Clean Lungs.
    • Spring Walking Challenges
    • Delay Diving and Free Diving after COVID-19 Vaccinations and COVID-19 Infections
    • Desk-Bases Stretching
    • Creating Safe Working Procedures
    • Family Wellbeing Program
    • Top 5 Facts about Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
    • Safety Data Sheet Authoring Service

    October 2021

    Highlights

    • Working From Home from a Laptop
    • Health and Wellbeing Month - October 2021
    • Entanglement Injury Awareness
    • Laser Cutters
    • Coping through COVID-19 - Positive Mood Program
    • WHS Monitoring Training
    • National Return to Work Strategy
    • SafeSys and Beyond - Review of Current and New Templates
    • Safety Chat over a Cuppa
    • Draft Standard Open for Comment

    February 2020

    Highlights

    • SafeSys/WHS Replacement
    • Reminder of the Importance Washing Handing
    • Build Resilience and Manage Anxiety workshop
    • New Penality Offences for Notifiable Incident
    • Cough and Sneeze Etiquette
    • BeneStar Onsite Staff Counselling Service
    • Jaggaer CIM Update
    • Revised Workplace Exposure Standard for Respirable Crystalline Silica

    March 2020

    Highlights

    • Why is hand hygiene so important?
    • Effective Handwashing Guide
    • Global Challenge Info Session
    • Asbestos Finder Tool
    • Wellbeing at Work Workshop
    • Industrial Chemical Reforms
    • SafeWork Australia News
    • WHS Amendment(Review) Bill 2019
    • Solar UV Radiation
    • Benestar Onsite Service - New Venue

    April 2020

    Highlights

    • SafeSys/WHS Replacement Project Update
    • Positive Mental Health
    • COVID-19 Information and Myths
    • Get Healthy at Work
    • Benestar Support
    • UNSW Flu Vaccination 2020
    • Vitamin D Dilemma
    • WFH Wellbeing Tips
    • Fire Warden Online Training
    • Health and Safety While WFH
    • New Jaggaer Expiration Functionality
    • HP batteries Swelling
    • Effective Handwashing Guide
    • Lesson Learnt

    Highlights

    • WHS Replacement Project Update
    • The Global Challenges goes Local
    • Staying pandemically clean - Safely
    • Benistar Webinars
    • Supervisor Requirements during COVID-19
    • Free Nutrituion Consultations
    • Fake Respiratory Protection Equipment on the Market
    • Get Healthy at Work
    • Incident Reporting and Corrective Actions
    • Medibank 1on1 Consultations
    • UNSW Flu Vaccinations 2020
    • Work from Home ChemAlert Access
    • COVID-19 Impacts on Mobility Survey
    • UNSW Poison and Therapeutic Substance Course is Online
    • UNSW Fitness and Aquatic Centre
    • 3 Principles for Universities
    • Biosafety Training
    • Training
    • GHS 7- What's Changed?

    June 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus
    • Safe Return to Campus
    • Hand Sanitiser Production
    • Safety Data Sheets
    • Chemical Purchasing from Overseas
    • Free Yoga!
    • UNSW Flu Vaccinations 2020
    • ChemAlert License Renewed
    • AED Across Campus
    • Wellbeing at Work
    • Injury Management Program Procedure
    • Fitbit Premium-Free
    • Medibank One-on-One Consultations 

    July 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus
    • Safe Return to Campus
    • Health and Safety Consultation and Issue Resolution Procedure Consultation
    • Warming-Alcohol-based hand sanitiser
    • Working with Mercury
    • Laser Safety Course
    • Free Yoga!
    • School Holiday Webinar
    • Benestar Briefings 
    • Wellbeing at Work
    • Fitbit Premium - Free
    • Plastic Free July at UNSW
    • Respiratory Protective Devices
    • Pandemic Parenting 
    • GHS v7 Delayed to Jan 2021
    • Medibank One-on-One Consultations

    August 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • Australasian University Health Challenge
    • Benestar Webinar - Balancing Your Life
    • National Warning on Backyard Chooks
    • Working From Home
    • Fitbit Premium - FREE
    • New Ris Group Database App
    • Managing Your Finance in n Uncertain World
    • SafeSys - Search Functional Reminder
    • Lesson Learned

    September 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • R U OK? Day
    • Australasian University Health Challenge
    • Benestar Webinar - Managing Pressure
    • Uprise
    • Which face mask do i wear, and when should wear it?
    • Choose hand sanitiser container carefully
    • SEXtember
    • Yoga with Diane Yuen
    • Updated Work Health and Documents
    • Building Evcuation Procedures
    • Health and Safety Consultation Procedure
    • Vulnerable Workers Guide
    • Import(BICON) Alert - Urgent Changes to Import Conditions
    • Looking for a Back Issue

    October 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • Health and Wellbeing Month - Staff
    • Biketober
    • Benestar
    • Webinar - Dealing With Anger
    • Mental Health Month -Students
    • Draft Psychological Health Code of Practise
    • How to buy Lab Supplies
    • Hazardous Manual Tasks Procedure Consultation 
    • Water Saving Guide
    • Workplace Exposure Standards of Silica Dust
    • Wellbeing at Work
    • Health care and social assistance website
    • Lesson Learnt

    November 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • "Type In" Purchasing in Jaggaer
    • Benestar Webinar - Rewarding Relationship
    • Benestar Webinar -Self-Care during Holiday
    • Remove Labels Before Disposal
    • Old Materials in Labs
    • Respirator Fit Testing Accreditation Program
    • Emergency + Free App
    • Drone Operation and Management 
    • Reducing waste while being COVID Safe
    • Uprise Webinars
    • Changes to Hazardous Chemical Information System (HCIS)
    • Bike2UNSW Team Group
    • Lesson Learned

    December 2020

    Highlights

    • Project Salus Update
    • Working during Shutdown
    • Snip the Straps
    • Reducing waste while being COVID Safe
    • Transition to 7th Revised Edition of GHS
    • End of Year Parties
    • End of Year Waste Collection
    • Hazards of working in heat and air pollution
    • New PPE Vending Machine on Upper Campus

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