Read this published article by HopgoodGanim Lawyers regarding Industrial and Employment Law. 

Discussion of performance management processes in the context of school safety may at first glance appear somewhat incongruous. Yet an ever-increasing tide of stress-related workers’ compensation – among other types of – claims indicates its relevance to workplace health and safety.

With particular emphasis upon the risk of those types of claims, this paper outlines:

1. the workplace health and safety obligations that Queensland employers owe to their workers;
2. the potential legal risks to which employers are exposed when they fail to discharge those obligations;
3. ways and means of seeking to contain those risks.

In the workplace health and safety context, the principal risk area is the risk of personal injury type claims, of whatever kind and however manifested, for psychiatric or psychological disorders arising out of performance management processes.  However, the risks for employers are not isolated to the workplace health and safety area and the topic cannot be considered from that perspective alone. A broader range of industrial risks are involved and also have to be managed.

This paper seeks to give some coverage of the major risk areas involved.  The topics are approached from an overall workplace relations law perspective.

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