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How the workplace affects employee health and wellbeing
The most direct effect that workplaces have on employee health and wellbeing is through the occurrence of injuries or illness due to work. Our workplaces affect the types of risks involved. Workplaces with high levels of physical work (for example, those that involve...
Storm Over Procurement Loopholes
A storm is brewing over government procurement policies within the furnishing sector, with Members of Australia’s peak industry body, the Australasian Furnishing Association (AFA), pushing for reform. It seems that the AFA may have ‘hit a nerve’, with the issue...
AFA Update – Coronavirus – Business, Employee and Health Support
AFA Update CoronavirusBusiness, Employee and Health Support The Coronavirus will continue to be, one of the biggest challenges facing the furnishing and related industries (AFA) in modern times. As governments and health officials provide us with rapidly changing...
Warning on Toppling Furniture following the Death of another Child
NSW Fair Trading and other consumer affairs agencies across the country have launched a campaign to ensure parents and carers know how to protect their children and prevent a serious accident from toppling furniture and TVs. NSW Fair Trading Commissioner, Rod Stowe,...
DO YOU WANT UP TO $50k OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING?
Does this sound like you? · You need to find a smarter way, a quicker way, a better way to grow · You have great ideas but need to translate ideas into products and into commercial success · You have outgrown your current processes or resources. · You need to plan for...
Tipping Furniture Warning
The AFA has been liaising with Government to look into tipping furniture as it poses an ongoing threat to Australians. The AFA is pleased Australia's consumer watchdog has launched a safety investigation into a popular series of drawers by Swedish furniture retailer...
Benchmarking by John Clements from hranywhere
Many organisations, regardless of size and structure, will seek to benchmark themselves. Benchmarking helps with improving processes, approaches and technologies to reduce costs, increase profits and strengthen customer loyalty and satisfaction. Benchmarking is an...
10 amazing new buildings to view around the world
Everyone travels for different reasons, it could be the culture, it could be the food, but what about architecture?Here's a list of 10 new buildings around the world for you to check out in your travels, be them real or virtual Believe it or not, Phillip Island in...
Disciplinary action
Generally, employees perform their duties well and there is no need to take corrective action. However, where an employee is not meeting either performance or behaviour expectations, it is critical to act. Coaching and retraining are often all that is required to...
AFA Members – Have your say on Australia’s digital future
The Digital Economy Strategy will launch in 2018 and outline the benefits of Australia’s digital transformation. It will focus on how the government, the private sector and the community can work together to: build on our competitive strengths and develop new ones by:...