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Major Milestone For Health and Safety Risk Management

Health and Safety

BIG NEWS! You won’t have seen it in the papers or read it in the news but for me its a big deal and I have to share it with you - at around 7am this morning, this humble website had its 1 millionth visitor! I wish I knew who you were as I would have [...]

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Slip Testing Standards

Building Safety

Common question we are asked is “what is the Australian Standard for Slip Testing and what are the requirements?” We asked the floor safety gurus at SlipSmart and they provided the following information: Current and proposed amendments to the Australian Slip Testing Standards Please keep in mind that Australian Standards AS/NZS 4586:2004 was generally designed [...]

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Fire Life Safety for Apartment Buildings

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Introduction The risk of emergencies such as fires escalating into full scale disasters in multistorey apartment buildings is very real. Therefore owners and managers of these complexes have a legal and moral responsibility to ensure that systems and procedures are in place to ensure that minor incidents do not escalate into full scale emergencies but, [...]

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Safety Awareness Posters

Safety Posters

Safety Awareness Poster And Graphics – The Backbone For Promoting Safety Awareness In The Workplace By Thomas Yoon It’s a well-known fact – promotion of safety and health clearly demonstrates the commitment of the business owner to establishing an effective safety management system. Much careful thought and consideration should be given to this. Promotional approaches [...]

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More Ways To Improve The Effectiveness of Your Safety Committee

Safety Committee

Yesterdays article about how to inject new life into a stale safety committee proved very popular with over 1000 hits in 24 hours! Since we seem to have touched a nerve, we though we would give you a few more ideas: Change the name of your committee to make it sound like it actually achieves [...]

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Forklift Trucks in Public Areas

Insurance

There have been a number of serious incidents in recent years involving third parties (ie customers and delivery drivers etc) being injured by mobile equipment, particularly forklift trucks. The owners/operator’s Public Liability Insurance policy may not generally cover the cost of resulting claims where the equipment should have been registered hence a claim made on [...]

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Chinese Spark Plug Factory

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Check out this article and images from a Chinese spark plug factory.  View All Photos and article

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Smoke Detectors Save Lives and Businesses

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Many industrial sites are not protected by any automatic fire detection systems.  This means that a fire may burn for a considerable period of time before being detected and extinguished, particularly when an area is unoccupied.  The only means of notification of a fire is by an employee being in the vicinity and raising an [...]

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