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Employers must identify whether there is a risk to health of employees from exposure to coronavirus at their workplace. Where a risk to health is identified at a workplace, employers must, so far as is reasonably practicable, eliminate or reduce the risk.
These are the most common injuries and hazards for people working as nurses and midwives, as shown by injury claims. This includes registered nurses, enrolled nurses, nurse educators and researchers, midwives, mental health nurses, development disability nurses, and nurse managers.
WorkSafe expects employers to have safety solutions in place to protect workers from the most common sources of injury.
Employers must display an 'if you are injured at work' poster in every workplace. You can download and print a poster in English as well as Arabic, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.