IAN McGRATH urges H&S practitioners to give up fond notions of command-and-control and to embrace their inner mentor/facilitator.

What are the options for overcoming our apparent legal impotence in the face of large scale work-related tragedies like the CTV building collapse? JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM investigates.

JULIE DOUGLAS and KATHERINE RAVENSWOOD argue that improving health & safety among aged care workers requires attending to broader factors, such as pay.

Carers typically work shifts and suffer from fatigue, while some are at risk of compassionate fatigue too. DANNII HARRIS reports from personal experience.

Prioritising the safety of clients over carers can leave carers dangerously exposed. FRITZ DRISSNER argues that effective safety management must look at the needs of both groups simultaneously.

JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM looks at what a major survey of high-risk industries reveals about health & safety practices and perceptions.

Five months into the job the new Minister of Workplace Safety, Iain Lees-Galloway, talks to JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM about what he wants to do differently.

PETER BATEMAN analyses the results from Safeguard’s third annual State of the Nation, while respondents reveal their most satisfying or effective recent H&S interventions.

RICHARD COLEMAN and KAREN TEO review the two most commonly used safety maturity models and explain which one they prefer to use.

HILLARY BENNETT suggests that rather than aiming to achieve a “generative” level of safety maturity, it would be better to focus on improving organisational resilience.

Maturity models are not an exact science but are useful to stimulate discussion on what matters, argues STEVE WORSLEY.

Talented young athletes eventually face a decision about turning professional. SELENA ARMSTRONG says the health & safety profession has reached that stage.

Despite the closure of the ergonomics/human factors programme at Massey University the teaching of the discipline could be revived as a cross-university niche discipline, argues STEPHEN LEGG.

WARREN FORSTER and TOM BARRACLOUGH argue for the creation of a Personal Injury Commissioner to help fix accountability and prevention gaps in the system.

JUDE URLICH on her goal to strengthen worker engagement, participation and representation because it will lead to better H&S outcomes.

LEE-ANNE DUNCAN reports on a company’s year-long journey towards going smokefree, and the culture change that resulted.

CRAIG SMITH, who stepped down from HASANZ at the end of March, contemplates its achievements and poses a challenge for the future.

DREW RAE recalls a show-stopper of a question posed in an English pub which caused him to re-evaluate his thinking about health & safety.