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  Issue No 4 Official Organ of LaborNet 12 March 1999  

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Shaw Promises World Beating Safety Laws



After having his industrial relations laws described as "world's best", NSW Industrial Relations Minister Jeff Shaw wants to win similar accolades for workplace health and safety.

He this week unveiled a raft of changes to health and safety laws which implement key recommendations of an Inquiry into Workplace Safety, handed down last year by the Legislative Council's Standing Committee on Law and Justice.

Shaw says the laws will place NSW at "the international forefront in terms of work safety".

The proposals, which have been developed in consultation with the trade union movement, build on important changes in the Carr Government's first term, including doubling penalties for safety breaches and giving union officials immediate access to workplaces to police OH&S issues.

Initiatives in the latest package include:

- employee health and safety representatives to be appointed in all medium and large-sized businesses.

- financial incentives within the workers compensation premium structure to develop OHS management systems.

- strengthening the status of Workplace Safety Codes of Practice.

- undertaking a detailed investigation of best practice systems; and

- ensuring victim impact statements are admissible when sentencing breaches of OHS laws.


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*  Unions: Trade Unions Thinking Globally
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*  History: The Pioneers: Trade Unions Before 1850
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*  Review: Opening Spaces For a New Labor
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