Introduction
The workplace can contain hazards presenting risks to the health and safety of its employees. These include chemicals, biological agents, physical factors, adverse ergonomic conditions, allergens, safety risks due to accidents, and a variety of psychosocial risk factors.
Physical hazards affect thousands of workers every year. Common injuries include back strains, hearing loss, and falls, especially in construction, extraction, transportation, healthcare, and building cleaning and maintenance. Work plant, machinery, and other equipment often has moving parts, sharp edges, hot surfaces and other hazards with the potential to crush, burn, cut, shear, stab or otherwise strike or wound workers if used unsafely.
Biohazards include infectious microorganisms such as viruses and toxins produced by those organisms. Biohazards affect workers in many industries, influenza, for example, being very common. Outdoor workers, including farmers, landscapers, and construction workers, risk prolonged exposure to damaging UV rays from the sun. Health care workers, including veterinary health workers, risk exposure to blood-borne pathogens and various infectious diseases.
Dangerous chemicals can also pose a hazard in the workplace, either with short term toxicity, or because they have long term carcinogenic properties.
Psychosocial hazards include risks to the mental and emotional well being of workers, such as feelings of job insecurity, bullying, financial or emotional stress, long work hours, and poor work life balance.
At the bottom of this profile are brief details of a number of the experts that Expert Experts represents. Call our office to discuss your requirements and to obtain a recommendation that suits your needs and budget.
Expertise in Action
Our experts have extensive experience in the identification of WHS issues, risks and required assessments. Where contentious injuries have occurred, our experts can assess specific workplace environments to establish issues of fact.
Sample Reports
For some fields of expertise we have some sample sections of de-identified reports. Please contact our office if you are interested in a sample.
Cost
The overall cost of expert opinion depends on the services required. Some of the key factors that affect the cost of advice include:
- The need for a view or inspection of a location
- The quantity of documentary material to be reviewed
- Whether there are reports of other experts to be reviewed and commented on in detail
- Whether there is a need for conferences with the expert either in person or by telephone/Skype
