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Safety in the Workplace: Understanding Your Responsibilities
Suzanne Dove, Brayden Jones
Live + Q&A · Work health & safety · Mental health & wellbeing
HR sits where employment law meets everyday management, and most of what's listed here is about getting both right.
Employment law and compliance
Workplace relations is the core: awards and pay, enterprise agreements, employment and fixed-term contracts, flexible work requests, discrimination claims, and the end-of-year checklist for employers. Wage theft and payday super have raised the stakes on payroll, and payroll and super sessions cover employers' obligations. Many sessions come from employment law firms, chambers of commerce and the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Performance, conduct and investigations
Sessions cover performance management and the law, warnings and performance improvement plans, responding when behaviour crosses the line, managing conflict, and running workplace investigations fairly.
Safety, respect and wellbeing
Employers have a positive duty to prevent workplace sexual harassment, and must manage psychosocial hazards as they would any other safety risk. Respect at work, work health and safety and mental health and wellbeing sessions show what that means for policies, training and leaders.
Hiring and culture
Hiring and immigration sessions cover onboarding, paying new workers and sponsoring staff from overseas. Leadership and culture sessions look at what employees say they want from work, psychological safety, and how AI is changing jobs.
For small employers without an HR team, small business has more sessions on employing people.