Harrison WallaceChief Human Resources Officer · Essays & perspective

Harrison Wallace / Chief Human Resources Officer

Three positions on the work, the training and the bargain

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Psychosocial risk in FIFO work5 min read

A host's mine camp is still the contractor's workplace

Contractors who send crews to client mine sites tend to treat the host's camp as the host's problem. Safety law does not let a duty be handed over, and harassment and fatigue in camp are hazards a contractor must verify, control and, when necessary, pay to avoid.

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Psychosocial risk in FIFO work

  1. Psychosocial risk in FIFO work5 min read

    A host's mine camp is still the contractor's workplace

    Contractors who send crews to client mine sites tend to treat the host's camp as the host's problem. Safety law does not let a duty be handed over, and harassment and fatigue in camp are hazards a contractor must verify, control and, when necessary, pay to avoid.

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Apprentices and trade pathways

  1. Apprentices and trade pathways5 min read

    An apprentice intake figure tells a board almost nothing

    Manufacturers report how many apprentices they take on. Boards should ask how many finish, who leaves in the second year and why, and how many senior tradespeople are paid to teach, because those numbers decide whether a trade workforce is being renewed.

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Enterprise bargaining

  1. Enterprise bargaining5 min read

    Ending an expired agreement is a threat a one-plant town remembers

    Applying to the Fair Work Commission to terminate an expired enterprise agreement can shorten a dispute. In a town that depends on one plant, it teaches the workforce a lesson that outlasts any agreement, and employers should put the hard structural questions on the table instead.

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