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Occupational Health & Safety Reports
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Yellow Pages® Special Report – Characteristics of Home-based Small Businesses – October 1999
Abstract
Home-based businesses are a significant component of the small business sector. Thirty per cent of all small businesses operate home-based businesses, either directly from the home (in-home) or from their vehicle or at clients’ premises (out-of-home).
Yellow Pages® Special Report On Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Safety – November 1998
Abstract
Workplace accidents and deaths cost Australia an estimated 5% of GDP or more than
$25 billion a year. Workplace safety and workers compensation are also major issues for small business. In
1995-96, the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) estimated that work-related injuries cost small businesses (employing up to 19 full-time persons) $8.3b.
Yellow Pages® Special Report – Industrial Relations and the New National Training Wage – September 1994
Abstract
This Small Business Index Special Report examines a range of issues relating to Industrial Relations in the Small Business environment. In particular, the report focuses on current employment arrangements; the impact of the new federal government industrial relations legislation; awareness and use of the new National Training Wage; and attitudes towards employing the long-term unemployed.
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