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Occupational health and safety
DLA Piper’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) group is both proactive and responsive.
Representative experience
- Coordinating incident response following workplace fatalities and critical injuries in the construction, manufacturing, entertainment, and natural resources industries
- Defending OHS prosecutions in the construction, manufacturing, transportation, entertainment, and natural resources industries
- Appealing OHS compliance orders and assessable penalties
- Representing employers in workers’ compensation proceedings, including appeals, transfer of cost applications, right to sue applications, rate group appeals, early and safe return to work/gradual return to work programs, and requests for cost relief
- Conducting workplace violence and workplace harassment investigations in the transportation, manufacturing, retail, and services industries
- Developing communicable disease prevention plans and policy, including communicable disease prevention in the workplace, mandatory vaccination, and mandatory communicable disease testing policies
- Advising on development, implementation and internal enforcement of Health and Safety Policies
- Delivering OHS training to workers in the financial services, retail, and entertainment industries
- Drafting and reviewing commercial agreements regarding constructor/prime contractor obligations in the construction and infrastructure industries