Save time and resources with a single national resource tailored for legal advisors.
Click on the below links to see how National Work Health and Safety Law can benefit you as a specialist legal advisor in your practice.
If you're a barrister
Benefit from extensive knowledge and expertise of local barristers and solicitors in one multi-jurisdictional resource
- Deliver timely advice and conduct matters effectively - Provides barristers who operated under the old occupational health and safety laws with comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate
- Access a tool to aid consideration of the model laws and how they will be applied/interpreted in practice
- Broaden your focus from one jurisdiction-specific piece of law to being able to navigate the national system, all via one comprehensive tool
- Access relevant explanations of the model laws and draw together the associated case law
- Save resources and time spent researching and getting up to speed with the new model provisions
- Content is written by legal practitioners for legal practitioners
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If you're a solicitor
Save time navigating the new legislation
- Harness the ability to practice across jurisdictional boundaries - no other single legal industry-focused resource ties the law together and provides comprehensive coverage at a national and a jurisdictional level
- Deliver timely advice and conduct matters effectively - experienced lawyers who operated under the old occupational health and safety laws are equipped with comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate
- Junior lawyers joining work health and safety teams can quickly get up to speed with the law by accessing comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate
- Navigate a complex regulatory environment, which draws from previous cases and legislation
- Content written by legal practitioners for legal practitioners
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If you're a partner
Assist your clients in their Work Health and Safety requirements
- Deliver timely advice and conduct matters effectively - experienced lawyers who operated under the old occupational health and safety laws are equipped with comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate
- Navigate a complex regulatory environment, which draws from previous cases and legislation
- Harness the ability to practice across jurisdictional boundaries - no other single legal industry-focused resource ties the law together and provides comprehensive coverage at a national and a jurisdictional level
- Junior lawyers joining work health and safety teams can quickly get up to speed with the law by accessing comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate
- Content is written by legal practitioners for legal practitioners
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If you're a librarian
Assist your internal customers in navigating the new legislation
- Assist lawyers in navigating a complex regulatory environment, which draws from previous cases and legislation
- Provides the firm with a cost effective single legal industry-focused resource that ties the law together and provides comprehensive coverage at a national and a jurisdictional level
- Content written by legal practitioners for legal practitioners
- Assist junior lawyers joining work health and safety teams to quickly get up to speed with the new law by providing them with access to comprehensive and authoritative information that will enhance their understanding of how the model laws will operate
- Provides experienced lawyers who operated under the old occupational health and safety laws with comprehensive and authoritative information to understand how the model laws will operate to help them deliver timely advice and conduct matters effectively
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If you're an in-house counsel
Identify relevant information to help you advise your internal clients
- Consolidate and unify your safety law compliance practices nationally, saving costs and time navigating separate legislation
- Meet your requirement to stay abreast with developments to this area of the law
- A convenient source of legal information to help you understand how the model laws will operate in any jurisdiction, what the new laws will require and how they will be interpreted by the courts
- Make more informed decisions about day-to-day safety matters and better decisions about when to brief out/what to brief out/and what options are available - saving you both money and time
- Content is written by legal practitioners for legal practitioners
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Product Features and Benefits
Product Features
Benefits
- National-level and jurisdictional-level coverage in a single source
- Advance your knowledge of the harmonised system with broad national and local perspectives
- Comparative tabular information to illustrate jurisdictional variations
- Gain clarity on state and territory variations and between the previous occupational health and safety law and the model legislation
- Detailed annotations to the model legislation with useful commentary and references to key cases from all jurisdictions
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the model laws how they will operate and be interpreted
- Jurisdiction Guidecards help you easily obtain practical and procedural information relevant to each jurisdiction
- Accurately advise private clients whether you are working within one jurisdiction, or across multiple jurisdictions
- Regularly-updated bulletins capture the latest developments and the state of current law in the transition towards nationwide adoption of the model laws
- Be prepared for the onset of a national harmonised system with the most up to date resource
- Containing annotations by Peter Rozen and Kathryn Fawcett and commendation by
Prime Minister Julia Gillard
- Benefit from extensive knowledge and expertise of local barristers practising in day-to-day work health and safety law
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