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What Is Wrong With The Way OHS Is Managed In Australia

What Is Wrong With The Way OHS Is Managed In Australia Guest post by George Robotham from www.ohschange.com.au 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 the pain, anguish, and depression and shattered hopes of the [...]

What to do when Senior Management won’t support Safety

Phil LaDuke

Latest article by Phil LaDuke from Rockford Greene Blog. You can read more of Phil’s provocative articles HERE What to do when Senior Management won’t support Safety You know what needs to be done but there is no way you can do it with your dwindling resources. You worry that as more and more corners [...]

ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

George Robotham

ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY George Robotham – www.ohschange.com.au ABSTRACT The only thing constant in business is change. This paper introduces the reader to general organisational change principles and suggests these principles can enhance safety change if they are applied to this particular type of organisational re-design. Communicating change is dealt [...]

Management of Your Most Precious Resource – Time

George Robotham

Management of Your Most Precious Resource-Time George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE HERE By George Robotham www.ohschange.com.au It used to be said that man has a finite time on this earth, possibly this is changing to a certain extent with modern advances in medical science. The important thing to realise is that whatever time we [...]

Don’t Jump To Safety Management Solution

Alan Quilley

Latest article by Guest Author, renowned Safety Writer, Alan D. Quilley CRSP. Alan is the author of “The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Achieving REAL Safety Results” and “Creating & Maintaining a Practical Based Safety Culture”. Read all of his articles HERE He’s the president of Safety Results Ltd., a Sherwood Park, Alberta, OHS [...]

What Is Involved In Managing Work, Health, And Safety Risks?

Risk Management

What Is Involved In Managing Work, Health, And Safety Risks? According to WHS regulations it the duty of every business owner, manager, and supervisor and even to some extent the individual employee to help in managing work health and safety risks to employees and members of the public that visit or do business with you. [...]

Developing and Implementing a Safety Plan

Safety Management Plan

Developing and Implementing a Safety Management Plan George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE’S WORK HERE and www.ohschange.com.au Putting Safety Management Plans into Google will give a variety of responses and a number of examples. It is obvious the term means different things to different people. First of all we have to sort out what [...]

Commercial Safety Management Systems

Safety Management Plan

George’s Safety Reflections SEE MORE OF GEORGE’S WORK HERE Commercial Safety Management Systems No doubt there are commercial safety managements systems that add value to organisation’s safety effort but I experienced one that was a disaster. The introduction of the overseas S.M.S. was led aggressively by senior management despite a workshop of safety staff rejecting [...]

Role of the safety professional

Safety Leadership

George’s Safety Reflections – see more here Role of the safety professional It is interesting to read job advertisements and see what employers expect of OHS personnel. Statements are often made that the OHS person is to be responsible for implementing and managing OHS. Of course this flies in the face of management obligations at [...]

Journey Safety and Risk Management Plans

Fatigue

Journey Safety and Risk Management Plans Not sure what has happened out there to prompt the number of enquiries we are getting about travel safety plans, journey risk management, Trip Management Plans and safe driving hours for workers driving out to mines and remote sites. In response, below is a great example of a procedure [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Handy Hints For Safety People

Safety Management Plan

EXAMPLE ONLY-PREPARED FOR A PARTICULAR ORGANISATION AFTER AN INITIAL EXAMINATION OF THEIR NEEDS,NEEDS WILL VARY WITH DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONS By George Robotham, www.ohschange.com.au Practical tips for implementing a new or revising an existing Safety Management System (S.M.S.) Quotable Quote "A health & safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It [...]

What To Do If You Are a New Safety Manager

Safety Leadership

What To Do If You Are a New Safety Manager Another Safety Reflection by George Robotham – SEE MORE HERE Draft for discussion with my boss, I recognise this just represents a starting point and will be changed after my evaluation of the current Safety Management System Main objective for the first month is for [...]

How to Manage Time – for Safety Professionals

Safety Management Plan

George’s Safety Reflections – MORE HERE Management of time for safety professionals Most OHS professionals are very busy people, effectively managing your time can increase your productivity markedly. There is often little correlation between hard work and the level of achievement. Active people do not necessarily get the most done. Activity=Productivity is a myth. “Procrastination [...]

Free Health and Safety Manual Template

Free Downloads

Safety Manual Template Doug Wakefield from Safe Measure has developed this excellent manual, over many years, while providing health and safety consulting services and training to a range of industries and at all organisational levels. The document is in Word format and can be easily modified, cut and pasted etc. Doug is extremely passionate about keeping people [...]

The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system

Safety Management Plan

Another article by legendary Safety Guru, George Robotham (www.ohschange.com.au). You can find more of his work at here: SAFETY REFLECTIONS George’s Safety Reflections-Number 6 The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system Have well developed internal standards of OHS excellence. Define what excellence in implementation of the standards will look like. Train [...]

Qualities of an Excellent OHS Professional

Articles

Qualities of an Excellent OHS Professional A few thoughts from George at www.ohschange.com.au with a little help from me. We were originally going to call it the “Perfect Safety Professional” but decided that “perfect” wasn’t the right word as perfection could never be defined or achieved. If you were perfect then you wouldn’t be quite [...]

Free Safety Manual Template

Free Downloads

Free Safety Manual Template Safety Measure are providing their 250 page Safety Manual absolutely free - it doesn’t get any better than that! The manual has been expertly developed by Safety Guru, Doug Wakefield. It contains most of the critical elements required for an effective safety system for virtually any size business. It is in Word [...]

SHIT HAPPENS

Safety Culture

The Plan In the beginning was the Plan. And then came the Assumptions. And the Assumptions were without form. And the Plan was without substance. And the darkness was upon the face of the Workers. And they spoke amongst themselves, saying, “It is a crock of shit and it stinketh.” And the workers went [...]

Where to Find Money for WHS

Safety Funding

Where to Find Money for Health and Safety The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland’s state manager – workplace health and safety, Jo Kitney, says WHS practitioners who "do their homework and speak the language of business" are more likely to attract funding and resource for occupational health and safety initiatives. CCIQ presented a free [...]

Free OHS e-book – Safety Management Systems

eBook

Safety Management Systems Another great OHS read from the legendary Safety Guru George Robotham. George can be contacted on fgrobotham@gmail.com, he welcomes debate on the book (it would be indeed a boring world if everybody agreed with George). Check out his website: http://www.ohschange.com.au/ Download it here Conclusion from George’s ebook”: The above is quite a [...]

OHS Challenges in Australia 2011

Articles

OHS Challenges in Australia 2011 This is one of the best safety papers I have read for a long, long time and TOTALLY RELEVANT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. Its Author, George Robotham from OHS Change admits to having a healthy dis-respect for many common approaches to OHS Management and OHS Training – and he [...]

Safety Culture – Twelve Steps to a Change Management Checklist

Safety Culture

Safety Culture – Twelve Steps to a Change Management Checklist By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield Conducting site reviews (audits), areas surveys, findings from job hazard analysis (JHA), and observations may uncover perceptions, areas or tasks that must be quickly addressed. To be effective, change management must be used if the necessary revisions and actions are [...]

Sexy Health and Safety

Safe Sex

OHS becomes sexy for investors Far from just another cost, occupational health and safety is now considered “sexy” by investors, a research analyst will tell The Safety Conference in October. “From an investors’ perspective, we actively consider OH&S performance in our investment decisions, as we believe it is a good measure of management quality in [...]

Contractor Safety Management Plan Templates

Construction Safety

Contractor SMP Templates Any organisation employing contractors either for minor tasks or to complete large projects is just as responsible for their safety as it is for its own employees. Use these examples to develop your own Contractor Safety Management Plan 1. 2.

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