#ohs — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ohs, aggregated by home.social.
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Dumped wildlife and
depressed and suicidal vets: excessive workloads and out-of-hours work, unsatisfactory remuneration, client abuse, and unclear regulations.A "report found a lack of consistency with local governments and unclear legislation had led to a public perception of vets as "the default drop-off location" for injured wildlife and other found animals, despite the responsibility lying primarily with local and state governments."
"Six of the 32 recommendations related directly to challenges faced specifically by regional vets, including an "unreasonable level of responsibility" for the care of lost and unowned animals, such as injured wildlife...Wildlife is one of those things that we're all deeply passionate about, that we want to help our native wildlife … but it does come at a strain in the cost to the clinic that is, at this point, not covered at all."
"Vets say daily abuse and a lack of understanding from clients are one of the biggest factors causing them harm." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-09/veterinary-vet-mental-health-joint-committee/106640044
#wildlife #WildlifeCarers #NSW #biodiversity #veterinarians #vets #MentalHealth #pets #PetOwners #harm #RoadKill #InjuredWildlife #dogs #roads #OHS #governance
Image: Injured koala (ABC Radio Brisbane: Kenji Sato) -
Motorists killing road workers? Money over lives?
We'd rather not know"The way road trauma was classified contributed to that visibility problem."
"A traffic controller killed at a roadworks site does not appear in a public 'road worker' category."
"...While Queensland published weekly road toll figures, there was no one publicly accessible source that integrated public road fatalities, work-related road deaths, serious injury hospitalisations in one place or in near-real time. Road workers are especially vulnerable because they are exposed on high-speed corridors where a single reckless decision can have catastrophic consequences."
"Tragically, one afternoon Suzanne was struck by a truck travelling 106km/h in a 60km/h zone. The truck drove on the footpath and killed her." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/qld-road-death-roadworks-traffic-controller/106391030
#roads #RoadTrauma #RoadFatalities #SacrificeZone #cars #OHS #work #RoadToll #RoadSafety #accountability #NegativeExternalities #invisibility #speed #footpathsImage: Coffs Harbour, Pacific Highway conveyor belt 'upgrade', less bush but ready for a bright fossil fuel future without cycle paths and footpaths.
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CT officials approve UConn acquisition of Prospect-owned hospital
The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy on Friday evening approved a $13 million deal for the state’s flagship…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #CertificateofNeed #con #Connecticut #courant #ctnews #Health #healthcenter #hospital #localnews #MaxImagePreview #ohs #prospectmedical #purchase #uconn #UniversityofConnecticut #waterbury
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Excessive heat:
Storing children and dogs in cars
Exposing workers to heat stroke
Roasting livestock in paddocks* "Prison and fines for leaving dogs in hot cars among proposed changes to NSW animal welfare laws. The legislation will also focus on owners who travel with dogs on the back of utes...On a 30 degree Celsius day, the interior of a parked car could reach 70°C..." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/prison-fines-for-leaving-dogs-in-hot-car-under-nsw-law-changes/106242130* Working in excessive heat - Is there a set maximum temperature for workers?
"Calls for an industry-standard heat policy to be implemented on worksites as summers get hotter" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/calls-for-industry-standard-heat-policy-on-worksites/106234134* "Forgotten baby syndrome" - "Number of children left in cars increasing. Children being left alone in cars had become more common, with about 5,000 children rescued from locked cars across Australia each year." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/fatal-distraction-children-left-in-cars-it-can-happen-to-anyone/102814668* 100 cattle die in southern NSW heatwave >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/115902861249815501#FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #heatwaves #HotPlanet #children #workers #pets #dogs #welfare #cars #utes #motorists #autopilot #heatstroke #mortality #regulation #governance #HeatPolicies #workers #OHS #HeatStress #Heatstroke #CompanionSpecies #habitability
Image: Dog on the back of a ute, tied up on a hot metal tray, Mid North Coast, NSW
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UTS ordered by SafeWork NSW to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/03/uts-job-cuts-paused-safework-nsw-warning #OHS #education #laborlaw
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The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfbThe environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW -
The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfbThe environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW -
The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfbThe environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW -
The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfbThe environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW -
The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfbThe environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
#conservation #biosecurity #FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies #BiosecurityOfficers #OHS #biodiversity #IllegalLandClearing #GlenTurner #violence #crime #Moree #GoldCoast #Grafton #SunshineCoast #LandOwnership #IndividualPropertyRights #PossessiveIndividualism #liberalism #pseudolaw #community #pests #EnvironmentalImpacts #insecticide #EnvironmentalLaws #NSW -
Compendium: Sleep & Fatigue Risk Management
Here’s an assortment of papers on sleep and occupational fatigue.
Focus is on articles I’ve summarised or full-text I could locate.
A few themes are covered:
- Sleep & Fatigue
- Fatigue impairment vs BAC / accidents / error
- Shiftwork design & research / Fatigue Risk Management Systems
- Fatigue codes and guidelines
- Fatigue as a performance shaping factor
Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site:
https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinsonSleep & Fatigue
https://www.pacdeff.com/pdfs/Dawson_McCulloch%20Managing%20Fatigue%20Its%20About%20Sleep.pdf
https://fatiguemanagersnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/Darwent-et-al.2015_Managing-Fatigue.pdf
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11739-018-1873-3.pdf
https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/pdf/10.5664/jcsm.9512
https://www.academia.edu/7558212/A_Model_to_Predict_Work_Related_Fatigue_Based_on_Hours_of_Work
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106398
https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/20/4/267/2732104?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0411/pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3260461/pdf/nihms340667.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/47/5/47_5_518/_pdf
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21485/dot_21485_DS1.pdf
https://hal.science/hal-02979271v1/file/Dutheil%20et%20al_NappingandCognitive_2020_SLEEP.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/43/1/43_1_24/_pdf
https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2592628/Rasmussen.pdf?sequence=4
https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/3772064.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9018855/pdf/nihms-1751171.pdf
https://www.icao.int/safety/fatiguemanagement/FRMSBangkok/4.%20Measuring%20Fatigue.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4457397/pdf/nihms662245.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14682-0.pdf
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/240875/1/Berastegui%20et%20al.%202019%20Safety%20Science.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S1369847821000875
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jonm.12513
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=338&file_nro=1
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/28122206/Author_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMLclacBNB8PVNq3yf7NCmy0D1UgxlOA/view
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757571/pdf/v055p00217.pdf
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211715&type=printable
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10903127.2017.1376135
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1128596/pdf/oenvmed00083-0047.pdf
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=620&file_nro=1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100076
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00227.x
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3233/WOR-2012-0724-4283
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3928/21650799-20140826-01
https://content.iospress.com/download/work/wor0587?id=work%2Fwor0587
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhe1972/30/1-2/30_1-2_53/_pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4778077/pdf/nihms761456.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4300442/pdf/hpp-4-165.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nuf.12454
https://imagesrvr.epnet.com/embimages/pdh2/ocp/ocp33265.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/26022536/The_effects_of_different_roster_schedules_on_sleep_in_miners
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/52/6/52_2014-0102/_pdf
Fatigue / Blood Alcohol Comparison / Accidents / Error
https://www.understandingaf447.com/extras/Alcohol-Fatigue.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1739867/pdf/v057p00649.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00220.x
https://www.hptc-pro.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Fatigue-Working-Under-the-Influence.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079217302095
https://www.academia.edu/31043016/Sleep_disorders_medical_conditions_and_road_accident_risk
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0310057X0002800209
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1757738/pdf/v056p00289.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1765730/pdf/v060p00i88.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/43/1/43_1_20/_pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/57/2/57_SW-6/_pdf
https://www.academia.edu/58752542/Rest_breaks_and_accident_risk
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/indhealth/45/1/45_1_125/_pdf
Shiftwork Design & Research / Fatigue Risk Management
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2011.11.001
https://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=341&file_nro=1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00225.x
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhe1972/30/1-2/30_1-2_9/_pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/07853899908998783
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/NSS.S10372
https://nascholingnoord.nl/presentaties/2013-02-07_Bambra_2008_Shifting_schedules.pdf
https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/20808/dot_20808_DS1.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4539295/pdf/nihms707260.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2021.106398
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292337045_Fatigue_Risk_Management_A_Maritime_Framework
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2022.08.002
https://asasi.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Dawson-et-al_Fatigue_ISASI04.pdf
https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/405/305/peek.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100104
https://repository.tudelft.nl/file/File_7c3f673c-8ef5-4f5f-b6bc-bdb7eb9165d9?preview=1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10903127.2017.1381791
Fatigue Codes and Guidelines
http://www.mineaccidents.com.au/uploads/gn16-fatigue-risk-management(1).pdf
https://humanfactors101.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/assessing-risks-from-operator-fatigue.pdf
https://www.hpog.org/assets/documents/WEB-Guidance-on-managing-fatigue-16.04.14.pdf
https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/iogp-report-626-managing-fatigue-in-the-workplace/
https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/performance-indicators-for-fatigue-risk-management-systems/
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/1137975/qh-gdl-401-3.3.PDF
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/system/files/documents/1702/managing-the-risk-of-fatigue.pdf
https://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Documents/Safety/MSH_COP_WorkingHours.pdf
Summaries & Abstracts
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/chronic-sleep-loss-and-occupational-injury/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/shift-length-sleep-and-disabling-low-back-pain/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/02/25/sleep-problems-and-work-injuries/
https://safety177496371.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/shift-length-and-productivity-12-h-and-8-h/
LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/compendium-sleep-fatigue-risk-management-ben-hutchinson-crahc
#appletonInstitute #circadianRhythm #cqu #dawson #fatigue #fatigueRisk #fatigueRiskManagementSystem #mcculloch #occupationalFatigue #ohs #osha #safety #safetyScience #sleep #sleepDeprivation #sleepLoss #sleepRestriction #universityOfSouthAustralia #whs
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Australian food is grown with dangerous chemicals banned in other countries
"Australia has a global reputation as a source of clean food. In fact, the country has some of the most lax regulation of pesticide use in the western world."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/27/australian-food-is-grown-with-dangerous-chemicals-banned-in-other-countriesThe dirty dozen: 12 pesticides that are banned elsewhere but still used in Australia
List of toxins>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2022/sep/27/12-pesticides-banned-elsewhere-but-still-used-legal-in-australia-what-is-paraquat-atrazine-fiprinol-pesticide-chemicals-food-crops-animalsParaquat and Parkinson’s disease in agricultural producers
"The regulator (is) lagging behind. A 2023 report commissioned by the federal government found “serious allegations of chemical industry capture of the APVMA” and that it took far too long to finalise reviews of dangerous chemicals, including paraquat."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-31/parkinsons-disease-may-be-linked-to-farm-chemical-paraquat/104188978
#food #safety #consumers #Paraquat #pesticides #herbicide #chemicals #agrochemicals #harm #farmers #BigAg #OHS #Syngenta #litigation #neurotoxicity #Parkinsons #APVMA #toxins #regulation #governance #Australia #lagging #water #wildlife #PublicHealth -
Ban petrol lawn equipment
"Petrol leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread.Virtually all small engines are two-stroke, which burn a dirtier fuel mix than vehicles do. Advocates say that in addition to the climate-changing emissions released by the engines, workers are exposed directly to their exhaust and rarely wear filters to protect their lungs. Other people complain about the noise they make, especially when so many suburban #residents now work from home".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/
#batterypowered landscaping #Equipment #FossilFuel #Noise #Pollution #OHS #Conservation #Regeneration #LandCare #Bellingen #Suburbia #so50s #Gardening