More and more businesses are reaching out to their customers via email and SMS. And why not? It’s very cost-effective and practically instantaneous. But if you go about it the wrong way, you can seriously damage your reputation with current and potential customers and find yourself in breach of the Spam Act. To avoid non-compliance […]
[A common] Scenario: It’s compliance training time! You have successfully gathered a room full of staff from various departments to complete their training. However, almost immediately, you can sense the elephant in the room and your stomach starts to sink.An ever-growing sense of lack of engagement, or worse, boredom, starts to get stronger and before […]
Compliance (or, the lack thereof) with the Fair Workers Act has attracted unprecedented attention in recent times. MAdE Establishment (George Calombaris) being ordered to publicly promote compliance with the Fair Work Act (as well as make a contrition payment of $200,000) Michael Hill Jewellers underpaying employees up to $25,000,000 over 6 years – which may result in a similar value one-off […]
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently (Warren Buffet). Educational institutions have long been characterised by their prestige – ranking, academic results and even alumni. Reputation, therefore, is everything in this industry. An article by the Harvard Business Review […]
To determine the most common breaches of occupational health and safety (OHS) practices – you only have to look at the most common causes of injury in Australian workplaces every year. Examples of common workplace injury causes: Body Stressing (Overexertion). The leading cause of workplace injury in Australia. It includes repetitive strain injuries and injuries incurred from lifting […]
Safetrac is delighted to have won the Platinum Award for best eLearning widespread adoption from the LearnX foundation. This award focuses on an eLearning project that has been implemented over a large section of the organisation to support and advance employee learning and business performance. This award recognises REA Groups’ project to roll out a […]
Safetrac is thrilled to have won the Platinum Award for bespoke / custom training from the LearnX Foundation, with a personalised compliance program it developed for Toyota. This award focuses on a tailor-made learning solution that is customised to meet the unique training needs of an organisation to support and advance employee learning and business […]
New whistleblower laws to take effect on 1 July The new whistleblower provisions under the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019 (Act) will take effect on 1 July 2019. Although the requirement to have a compliant policy for public and large proprietary companies takes effect six months later, on 1 January 2020, employers […]
Safetrac is thrilled to have won the Platinum Award for compliance training from the LearnX Foundation, with a bespoke compliance program it developed for Toyota. Safetrac were engaged by Toyota to build a series of courses to help train the dealer principals in each of the Toyota and Lexus dealerships across the country in how […]
Off-the-shelf compliance training courses are a good way to keep staff up to speed in general health and safety in the workplace. They’re not quite as useful to those industries that have unique work environments, however, as businesses in such areas will have additional hazards they must train employees on. Compliance training ensures that your […]
Debt collectors have a range of obligations under the Competition and Consumer Act, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act, and the Office of Fair Trading in each Australian state or territory. ASIC and the ACCC are the regulatory bodies that monitor the debt collection industry and ensure that debt collectors are complying with the […]
OH&S/WH&S Blended Learning Model For the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) risk and danger is ‘part of the job’. However, three independent reviews identified the need for NZDF to adopt a risk-based safety management approach. The Health and Safety Work Act 2015 (HSWA) imposed additional legislative requirements as well as further substantiated the need for […]
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