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The WA Safety Show draws employers hungry for safety answers
Western Australia’s employers turned out in force to learn about new legislation and uncover solutions to workplace safety challenges at the WA Safety Show last week.
The state’s largest workplace safety trade show, it hosted 150 safety and materials handling suppliers and ran concurrently with the [...]
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This is a great resource to use at your next safety training session or tool box talk. Explains why sometimes we miss hazards in the workplace due to focus on other outcomes. This was a very famous experiment to prove that we don’t always see what is right in front of us. Read more about [...]
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We are being inundated with requests for free examples of safe work method statements, particularly for lawn mowing? Here are some really good examples from the The Municipal Works Officers Association (MWOA) Website.
Air Jack Operation
Air Tools Operation
All Hazards
Arc Welding
Battery Charger
Below the Ground less than 1.5 metres
Bench Grinder
Bleeding Seal
Bridge Cleaning
Bridge [...]
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Today is Territory Day in NT (the only Australian State where the public can buy fireworks) and with 4th of July Celebrations approaching, our readers are asking for firework safety slogans. Unfortunately there aren’t many around so I made up a few myself. If you can do better then leave send then in your [...]
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How many people snigger or cringe when it is suggested that a safety inspection be done in an office? These environments may not immediately strike you as particularly hazardous but there are numerous potential risks in an office, many of which have caused serious short and long term injury at other workplaces.
First published in 2001 [...]
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This site is only a few months old but already getting over 2000 hits per day and growing. We are always on the look out for new articles, tools (our risk score calculator has been downloaded over 10,000 times), checklists, new products to review, quality safety services and consultants or in fact any unique information [...]
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I dove past a bloke mowing his lawn in thongs this afternoon and I had a flash back to my childhood when my grandfather used to wear his thongs between his second and third toes after getting his big tow chopped off by his lawnmower. From memory, he had it on blocks and was doing [...]
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Risk Support Limited has developed Active Bow Tie for bow tie risk analysis and management system development. They are now up to v1.7 and are offering a free, fully workable download of their previous version Active Bow Tie v1.5. Click here for more info.
I’ve tried it but the program [...]
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The high number of injuries occurring during installation, maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment is a concern to WorkSafe – as it should be for you.
Employees involved in such work make up about 25 per cent of workers in the manufacturing. However, they account for nearly 60 per cent of machinery and equipment-related workplace injury claims.
We [...]
about 3 months ago - No comments
Sometimes only a picture can get our attention!
Her last call was from a new Mobile Phone…
Do you see the motorcycle?
Now do you see it?
The Honda crotch rocket rider was travelling at approximately 85 mph. The VW driver was talking on a Mobile Phone when she Pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the [...]