Merry Christmas

From all of us at the Health & Safety Bulletin, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The Health & Safety Bulletin is taking a break for the holidays and will return on the week commencing 12 January 2026.

We look forward to bringing you more work health and safety news in 2026.

What you missed in 2025

In 2025, the Health & Safety Handbook – the masthead behind the Health & Safety Bulletin – had a huge year adding brand-new content and making updates to the website to ensure subscribers stayed on top of work health and safety law. Below are some of the highlights.

1. Important updates were made to 53 chapters, featuring work health and safety topics that are essential for employers. Our most visited chapter for the year was Children in the workplace.
2. 17 case law articles were produced, analysing cases in depth to illustrate how the law is being applied in the courts. Our most popular case law this year was 'Employee dismissed for breach of drugs and alcohol policy ordered to be reinstated'.
3. 22 Q&As were published, answering questions sent by subscribers to our helpdesk service. This year's most popular Q&A was 'Who can seek a stop-bullying order in the Fair Work Commission?'.
4. More than 50 weekly bulletins were sent out to bring important news straight to you. Our most popular bulletin this year was 'Inadequate traffic management plan leads to pedestrian versus forklift incident'.

Don't let another year go by without access to Australia's most comprehensive work health and safety guide!