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Effective Listening for Safety Professionals

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George’s Safety Reflections – See more HERE Effective listening for Safety Professionals The OHS professional attends many meetings, facilitates a lot of learning and generally converses with a lot of people, often what is not said is as important as what is said. Being a good reader of body language is essential to get to [...]

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Friday Safety Poster

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Friday Safety Poster –If you’re not happy – say something      One of the quirky new safety posters from the SAFETY TOOLSHED Technorati Tags: safety poster, safety toolshed

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Improving Safety Through Interpersonal Skills

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George’s Safety Reflections – by Geroge Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au Improving Safety Using Interpersonal skills When interviewing OHS professionals many interviewers focus on their technical skills. Frankly I think communications and interpersonal skills are much more important than technical skills. You can be really bright, you can be highly qualified and trained, you can be well [...]

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Safety Consultation

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Get on your consultation soap box! Posted on September 29, 2011 by The Safety Nerd So currently we have Committees, Reps, other agreed arrangements such as focus groups, working groups, steering committees, toolbox talks, team meetings – this all is basically because you need to discuss with the relevant people any health and safety matters. [...]

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How to have an effective safety committee

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George’s Safety Reflections-Number 3 Another article by legendary Safety Guru, George Robotham (www.ohschange.com.au). You can find more of his work at here: SAFETY RELECTIONS How to have an effective safety committee Introduction Safety committees are much maligned and often ineffective. They can easily denigrate to a whinge-fest and end up covering topics that should be [...]

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How to Communicate Workplace Safety Messages

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How to Communicate Workplace Safety Messages By Marie-Claire Ross Effective communication is vital to get staff and contractors aligned and working towards a positive safety culture. Yet, just providing training to work safely is not always enough. How we communicate about safety influences whether or not people will accept or reject our safety messages. The [...]

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Safety 101

5 Whys

Safety 101 – The 5 Whys Another practical article from Sina Safety Solutions. This short and sweet article covers the 5 Whys of establishing a safe workplace: Why is Management Commitment Important? Why do you need Consultation? Why do you need Safe Work Procedures? Why is Training and Supervision Important? Why do you need Safety [...]

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Thats The Way We’ve Always Done It – The Calf Path

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I’m a firm believer in finding creative (often cheaper and more effective) ways to solve ongoing problems. I love to quote this poem about creative thinking whenever I get: “that’s the way we’ve always done it” The Calf Path – Sam Walter Foss – 1895 One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home [...]

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Safety As a Value

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Safety As a Value! By James Roughton What the word VALUE mean? If we say that Safety is a Value, what does this mean? The dictionary defines VALUE as a principle, standard or quality considered worthwhile or desirable, a family value. The dictionary defines a priority as a precedence established by order of importance or [...]

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Employees Are in Close Contact With Hazards

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Employees Are in Close Contact With Hazards By James Roughton As businesses change, running leaner, and more responsibilities are added to individuals, there is greater separation of management from day to day activities. As this occurs, the management team can become short sighted or complacent with regard to the hazards in their facility. So it [...]

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