Occupational Health and Safety: Online Videos

Summary: "New Work Health and Safety legislation came into effect in some Australian states and territories on 1st January 2012. It was developed to harmonise the laws affecting workplace safety in Australia by replacing existing state based OH&S legislation. This interview led program gives a brief history of the development of workplace safety in Australia, the development and need for the new WHS laws, definitions of key terms, and explains changes to incident notification and offence categories. Craig Salter, from Action OHS consulting, provides clear, detailed explanations of the WHS legislation."
Published: VEA, 2012.

Videos available via Informit. Episodes 1-7:
1. The great ship
2. The Brooklyn Bridge
3. Bell Rock Lighthouse
4. The Sewer King
5. Panama Canal
6. The Line
7. The Hoover Dam

National Geographic, 2012.
The cataclysmic fire aboard the Piper Alpha oil rig the world's worst ever offshore disaster. Find out exactly what went wrong.

Futuremedia, 2013.
Professor Andrew Hopkins, a world-renowned expert in industrial accident analysis and author of 'Lessons from Longford,' looks into the organizational, governmental, and societal forces that contributed to the Longford disaster.