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OHS is Dead. Long Live WHS

Harmonisation

OHS is Dead. Long Live WHS. by Kevin Jones at http://safetyatworkblog.com/ Media reports on the 13 April 2012 Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting say that harmonisation of occupational health and safety laws in Australia has died.  Some say this is the fault of the Victorian Government with its economic justification for inaction but the [...]

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Educators and Corporate Agendas Misaligned in OHS

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Educators and Corporate Agendas Misaligned in OHS Press Release – Educators and Corporate Agendas Misaligned in OHS 19 February 2012 Universities cannot keep up with the demand for workplace safety professionals, a survey released today has revealed. As corporate Australia struggles to meet the demands for safe work places, the pipeline of qualified professionals graduating [...]

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Are the New OHS Harmonisation Guidelines Not Meant For All?

Harmonisation

Are the New OHS Harmonisation Guidelines Not Meant For All? Guest Post The changes in the OHS guidelines were meant to harmonise those guidelines over all of Australia, making them clearer and easier to follow and lifting some of the burden from employers to have to "prove" themselves innocent when an employee was injured. Under [...]

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Effective OHS policies and procedures

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Effective OHS policies and procedures by Chris Beasley Keeping your workers safe is an integral part of running a successful business. If employers – known under the new national model work health and safety laws as ‘PCBUs’ –don’t provide a safe working environment there are serious consequences, possibly the least of which are penalty notices, [...]

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Major mistakes made in implementing OHS

OH and S

George’s Safety Reflections read more reflections HERE Major mistakes I have seen made in implementing OHS The biggest mistake is management and supervision making decisions about safety without input from the workforce Bear in mind some are not interested in contributing, give them the opportunity but do not force them. Lack of management demonstrated commitment, [...]

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OHS Harmonisation Training

Harmonisation

OHS Harmonisation Training AlertForce, a company which offers online safety training programs, have released their newly developed course: Manager Obligations under the WHS Act (OHS Harmonisation) You can skip the info below and see the course online HERE The range of units developed encompasses the requirements for – BSBOHS301B Apply knowledge of OHS in the [...]

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OHS Change Management

Change Management

George’s Safety Reflections see more here OHS and Change management Implementing OHS management systems is essentially about change management. The OHS professional who learns about change management will have a better chance of being effective. Change has been around a long time. The only thing constant in business is change. “I cannot say whether things [...]

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WHS Obligations for Host Employers

Harmonisation

  Hostess with the Most-ess….The WHS Obligations for Host Employers Posted on October 20, 2011 by The Safety Nerd Training organisations are PCBUs who share WHS responsibilities (if that sentence was a whole load of acronyms you thought I just made up, you may want to read my earlier blogs).  As a group training organisation, [...]

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OHS Learning

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George’s Safety Reflections – MORE HERE OHS Learning Facilitating OHS learning is a very important part of an OHS professional’s role but unfortunately many do not have high levels of skills in this area. The Cert. IV T.A.E. is the standard people are judged by. The reality is that this course has a number of [...]

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OHS Leadership

George Robotham

George’s Safety Reflections by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au OHS Leadership Having survived a number of years in industry the author is acutely aware that leadership of an organisation can make or break the organisation. The importance of leadership is vastly underrated in Australian industry, leadership is the forgotten key to excellence in business. Leaders send [...]

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Why have OHS

OHS

George’s Safety Reflections Why have OHS The first fatality I was associated with occurred over 30 years ago to a young, vivacious, pleasant female office employee at a mine site. I was the first on the scene and comforted her as she drifted in and out of consciousness. She died the next day, such a [...]

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OHS Harmonisation Presentation

Harmonisation

OHS Harmonisation (Work Safety & Health Legislation) is being presented by Graham Dent on 26th September 2011 Graham Dent will be presenting to Southern Safety Group members and anyone interested at Protector Alsafe premises, 42 Greens Road, Dandenong VIC between 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm – Members are free, non members $ 5.00 – Memberships [...]

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OHS Harmonisation and Contractors

Contractor Induction

OHS Harmonisation and Contractors From Graham Dent’s Harmonization Group on Linkedin – see it here If you don’t have any real background in the area, i.e. management of the OHS aspects of contractors, take a look at these publications which give you an introduction to the principles and process around contractor management. These are Comcare [...]

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Safety Myths and Misconceptions

Articles

Safety Myths and Misconceptions Another classic article in the series by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au *This paper draws heavily on the work of Brisbane OHS consultant Geoff McDonald. Quotable Quote "A health & safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It can only be understood by knowing and feeling [...]

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What is OHS?

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What is Occupational Health and Safety? Article by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au Good question that I do not have a good answer to, but have a few observations- OHS is the science / art / wizardry / bloody hard game of convincing stakeholders at all levels to identify hazards, assess risk and control risk in [...]

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