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OHS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - No concept of OHS until after WWII
      - Health and morals of Apprentices Act (1802)
        
        public health issues of child labour
        
        working hours
        
        Sanitation & disease prevention
      - Factories Act (1833)
        
        inspectors appointed to examine workers
        
        certified factory surgeons
      - First Australian OHS related act
        
        regulate workers conditions in the NSW coalfields
      - Factories Act (Aus) (1873)
    - - Commonwealth of Australia (1901)
        
        Australian Settlement
        
        Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1904)
        
        Exercise Tariff Act (1906)
        
        Immigration Restriction Act (1901)
      - International Commission on Occupational Health (1906)
      - International Labour Organisation (1919)
      - NY factory Fire kills 146
        
        American Society of Safety Engineers (1911)
      - Safety specific literature in US (1911)
    - - World Health Organisation (1948)
      - Technical Engineering approach to safety
      - Industry psychology Approach
      - UK Institution of Safety Officers (1945)
      - Australia holds first safety-related course (1949)
    - - Employment & inflaction increase
      - union influence increases
      - Safety relationship between employer/employee established
      - Aus identifies need for OHS professional
    - - Industrial Relations Act (1988)
      - Human Rights Equal Opportunity Act (1986)
      - Piper Alpha oil rig explosion
        
        Highlights management responsibility
        
        Need for a systematic approach to managing OHS
      - Duty of care approach
      - Role of safety specialist unclear
    - - Workplace Relations Act 1996
      - Disability Discrimination Act 1992
      - Equal Opportunity Act 1995
      - OHS management system replace Engineering approach
        
        OHS professionals become internal consultants
        
        OHS role heavily influenced by company profits
      - First National Conference of OHS Educators from Aus/NZ held (1994)
    - - Australia Standards for OHS Management Systems published
      - Australian contribution to global OHS knowledge diminished
      - Adaptive age transcended technical, human factors management and cultural ages
      - difficulty finding qualified and experienced OHS educators
      - Australian Learning and teaching council funded study to map strengths, challenges and gaps in OHS education
        
        Academy of University OHS Education and Research established
      - HaSPA created (2007)
  - - - prevention and minimilisation of work-related OHS incidents
    - - variability of human behavious
      - technical understanding of hazards and workplace processes