Straight to the point this week with a visit to the Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, affectionately known as DMIRS, to learn public comment has been invited on a new draft Code of Practice for dealing with violence and aggression at work.
According to the Department, the Code steers employers toward plans and policies aimed at managing and eliminating violent behaviours in the workplace, covering such unwanted behaviours as physical assault, verbal abuse, threats and intimidation.
“The Code will apply to all workplaces in Western Australia with the exception of mining and petroleum operations” the Commission managing the Code declares, saying potential commentators have until late September to lodge their thoughts.
Inconveniently impatient as it usually is, PS-sssst! has already developed a small but practical comment to offer the comment-collectors as our way of making their jobs a little easier.
If it’s possible can the task of managing the anti-violence programs in workplaces be the responsibility of an organisation with a less belligerent title than that of the ‘Commission for Occupational Safety and Health’ which, as any Mafia Lord will attest, abbreviates to the less than neighbourly ‘COSH’.
Online dictionary: Cosh. Noun. A blackjack; bludgeon.
Caught by the bus
Impressive news from the national capital’s transport agency this week with the local public transport system preparing to launch an exciting new network across the city later this month.
Originally due to be implemented across Canberra in April but grounded by the intrusion of the Coronavirus, Canberra’s Minster for Transport said the new network will provide 692 extra bus services each weekday and featured more direct routes, more frequent services and significant improvements across the network for the whole city.
And the good news is that the new network starts soon.
Said the Minister: “From Saturday, 18 July, the Network 19 update would commence, providing 692 extra bus services each weekday.”
Says PS-sssst!: Passengers hopping on an extra bus Saturday should be prepared for a long wait. The new services only run weekdays.
Cyber insecurity?
A special mention now of an anonymous PS-sssst! reader blowing the whistle on another medium’s report of a taskforce being set up in the NSW Government to ‘take Australian cyber security to the world”.
Quoting the published report word-for-word, our ASEPR (Anonymous Sharp-Eyed PS-sssst! Reader) said it said: “The taskforce is a collaboration between the NSW government, Standards Australia and AustCyber, a federally funded not for profit established in 1917 to boost innovation and enable cyber security development.”
Swooping on the second half of the quotation, ASEPR declared: “This article in… (Name of other medium!)… refers to AustCyber as NGO group established in 1917.”
“Were mainstream computers even around then?” he enquired rhetorically
Good question, ASE. Is there a good answer?
Will throw it open to readers – at least one is sure to know!
In the meantime a popular, praised, pleasant and pleasing ‘ PS-sssst! Prize Pack’ (Book, Torch/Pen and T-Shirt) is going ASE’s way for sharing his concerns with PS News’s highly educated, erudite and enlightened readers.
Any answers to ASE’s question can be sent to [email protected]
Thrive to drive
To the weekly attraction of Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway now which will see two lucky leadership contenders become the new owners of the acclaimed guide to becoming a leader: Made to Thrive: The five roles to evolve beyond your leadership comfort zone by ‘serial entrepreneur’ Brad Giles.
To enlist in Rama’s Army of winners all we needed to do was answer her querulous quiz question and tell her how many key roles great leaders perform on average and then have your entry scramble from the PS News Barrel of Booty as one of the first two with the correct answer.
The answer Rama was after this week was ‘five’ and the wise and lucky entrants who led the pack were Krista C from the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and Genelle W from Create NSW.
Congratulations to Krista and Genelle and thanks to everybody who went to the trouble to take part. The prize books will be on their way very soon.
For next week’s weekly chance to join Rama’s world of winners simply follow this link to try for her book prize On Your Own Two Feet and this link to try for her DVD prize The Iron Mask.
Good luck to all who do!
WA flying high
And finally, congratulations to the world of wise and well-informed PS News readers in the Western Australian Public Sector (WAPS) now who made June a subscriptions super month, adding enough new readers to take the State’s subscriber list to its 2020 highest of 13,647, placing WA fifth on the PS News ‘ladder of alacrity’ just behind Queensland (13,824) and ahead of the ACT (12,231).
In today’s economic climate in which even going forwards can be going backwards, PS News’s modest increase nationally from 163,000 readers to 164,189 is something to write about and that’s why we are.
And as usual, the keys to strong readerships are loyal, committed and interested readers which PS News is blessed with and to whom we can return equally loyal, committed and interested publications.
And for that we once again say ‘Thankyou’.
Until next week….
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