Newsletters
For the latest news and updates in Work Health & Safety across UNSW Campuses check out the WHS Newsletters below.
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- February
- March
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
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- February
- May
- June
- October
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
May 2023
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
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- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
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 TreatmentÂ
- 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
May 2022
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 FacilitiesÂ
- 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
- August
- October
- December
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 PreventionÂ
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- February
- July
- September
- October
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 StretchingÂ
- 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
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- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
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
May 2020
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 ConsultationsÂ
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December
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 BriefingsÂ
- Wellbeing at Work
- Fitbit Premium - Free
- Plastic Free July at UNSW
- Respiratory Protective Devices
- Pandemic ParentingÂ
- 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 ConsultationÂ
- 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 ManagementÂ
- 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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