Workplace Safety

Do You Need a WHSO in QLD

Workplace health and safety officers (WHSO) Please not that despite lobbying by Qld Govt, the role of the WHSO is likely to change dramatically in 2011 under the new national harmonisation laws READ MORE Please see latest comments below Any workplace with 30 or more employees is required by law to have a workplace health [...]

International Workers Memorial Day

Workplace Safety

Message from The Victorian Trades Hall Council: www.vthc.org.au Tomorrow is International Workers Memorial Day, and unions are continuing their battle to maintain OHS standards around Australia. Despite state, territory and federal government commitments that OHS standards would not be reduced in the harmonisation process, it’s becoming ‘death by a thousand cuts’. While the so called [...]

Twitter Updates for 2010-04-25

Workplace Safety

Reading: "safety joke: Discuss Scaffolds with Obama"( http://twitthis.com/alxnew ) # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory! # Powered by Twitter Tools

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25

Workplace Safety

Reading: "safety joke: Discuss Scaffolds with Obama"( http://twitthis.com/alxnew ) # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory! # Powered by Twitter Tools

Free Safety Checklists

Workplace Safety

We’ve just added a heap of free safety, liability and property checklists from our collection and will be adding more soon. Available here FREE CHECKLISTS Technorati Tags: checklists

Motorcycle Safety Gear

Workplace Safety

[picappgallerysingle id="273092"] Driving into the city yesterday I drove past an accident scene. Paramedics were treating a motorbike rider on the footpath. It looked like he was pretty badly messed up but conscious. Traffic was heavy as usual and unless he was doing something stupid he cant have been going too fast, minor damage to [...]

Worksafe Awards 2010

Workplace Safety

WorkSafe is inviting health and safety representatives, small or large businesses, inventors and workers who have designed or created a safety solution to enter the 2010 Awards. Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE received the 2009 award for Best Solution to a Health and Safety Risk. The TAFE developed the Lathe Chuck Guard which protects the [...]

Drinking on the Job

Safety News

250 Carlsberg workers have walked off their jobs to protest the Danish brewer’s new limits on beer drinking at work. Since the brewer opened its doors in 1847, workers have been allowed to drink on the job as much as they wanted, so long as they didn’t get drunk. The policy has worked for the [...]

Twitter Updates for 2010-04-09

Workplace Safety

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Twitter Updates for 2010-04-07

Workplace Safety

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Recent Prosecutions

Safety Legislation

WA Employee fined total of $7000 for illegal forklift joyride Freight firm fined for hazard Food manufacturer fined $20,000 over hand injury NZ Ashburton court case shows human cost of unsafe work practice UK Rubber company fined after coffee break saves worker???s life in factory explosion Technorati Tags: Legislation, Safety

Downside of sitting on our Backsides

Ergonomics

We recently wrote about the risk of DVT to Office workers. Here is a recent article from the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety Downside of Sitting on Our Backsides Risks of sitting too long Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, trips to the gym, lunch hour walks – the value of exercise is [...]

OHS Implementation Plan Example

Office Safety

OHS Implementation Plan This plan should be used in conjunction with other relevant OHS Policies and Procedures documents. In the OHS Policies and Procedures document there should be guidance notes (Why this is important and What to do) for implementing elements of an Occupational Health and Safety management system. There are a number of activities [...]

Behaviour Based Safety

Employees Safety

Real Life Drama in the World of Behavior-Based Safety Article from Warriors 4 Safety by: Thomas Allgood of Allgood Solutions A Behavior-Based Safety Company Most of us spend our days at work doing the same task over and over. All too often, it becomes such a routine that we adopt a “nothing to it” frame of [...]

HSE Committee Charter Example

Safety Committee

Name of Committee: Aims To promote an injury and incident free workplace To provide a consultative forum for employees on health, safety and environment matters To encourage innovative thinking and adopt new ideas To ensure compliance with legal and statutory requirements To coordinate proactive health, safety and environment efforts including workplace inspections and system improvements [...]

New Forklift Safety Idea

Building Safety

Some of the most serious injuries in warehouses that Ive been involved in were when pedestrians were hit by a forklift. The results are almost never minor. I saw a brilliant, yet simple and cheap, idea yesterday for increasing the safety of pedestrians in warehouses. After a couple of serious incidents and many near misses, [...]

Myer Contractor Induction and Management

Contractor Induction

The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Personnel have appropriate qualifications and are provided with adequate information, instruction and training prior to commencing work on MYER premises. The Contractor will ensure that none of its Personnel undertake work unless they hold a valid licence, permit, certificate of competency or qualification as per MYER’s requirements [...]

Common Risks in Shopping Centres

Public Liability

There have been several recent fatalities involving children travelling up on the outside of escalators. Most escalators and travelators have some sort of guard in place but the original ones were inadequate and very easily climbed around. All escalators, travelators and climb guards should be inspected and upgraded is necessary. Care should be taken to [...]

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 [...]

Safety Gear For Women

Employees Safety

This article was inspired by my wife who has been worked in the construction industry for sometime. Her main concern was that she was required to wear hard hat, steel capped boots, gloves and high viz clothing but all the safety equipment available was obviously designed for men. I’ve had a look around at what [...]

Safety Activities For Supervisors

Safety Committee

I remember attending a mining and construction industry safety seminar a few years ago and a senior manager of one of the regulatory authorities suggested “a radically new industry wide safety initiative”. His idea was to collect regular data on serious injury frequency rates and publish a monthly ladder like for the NRL or AFL [...]

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 [...]

Workplace Health and Safety Checklists

Checklists

It is a legal requirement to have a hazard identification process in your workplace and safety checklists are a great away of partially meeting that obligation particularly if you are just starting out and don’t know what to look for or you want to consistently monitor certain critical items, areas or procedures. But they must [...]

Australian Health and Safety Training

First Aid

Australian Health and Safety Training Australian Health and Safety Training (AHST) is a Nationally Registered Training Organisation providing a wide range of first aid training for industry, professional groups and individuals, nationally. In 2005, we were appointed by the National Safety Council of Australia to manage their first aid training network throughout NSW which consists [...]

More New Ideas for Safety Committee Meetings

Employees Safety

Our articles about how to inject new life into your safety committee meetings and tool box talks to make them more effective have been extremely popular. Here are a few more ideas. If you have any others please share them: Allocate the committee a small budget to spend on whatever they want – could be [...]

Topics for Safety Meetings

Safety Committee

40 Ideas For Safety Meeting Topics By Lukman Nulhakiem Safety meetings are the right time to discuss about health and safety related matters in the workplace. Safety meetings can be held regularly or incidentally as a response on occurrence of a specific health and safety problem or after an incident or accident happens. Ideally, safety [...]

Health & Safety on Team Building Events

Events

Health & Safety on Team Building Events By James Coakes The UK has some of the most stringent Health & Safety standards in the World. Most blue chip companies go even further than the prescribed standards to ensure the wellbeing of their employees. Yet the majority of companies employ team building providers without checking on [...]

Managing Contractor Safety and Public Liability

Contractor Induction

Many contractors are not directly concerned for the safety of your customers and need assistance and close monitoring. For the purposes of risk management “contractors” can be considered in three categories: 1. Contract Labour are usually from employment agencies, and are employees of that agency. Typically these contractors work as if, in all other respects, [...]

Chinese Spark Plug Factory

Uncategorized

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

Safety Improvements In An Office Environment

Office Safety

MORE RISK MANAGEMENT CHECKLISTS Checklist and typical recommendations for an Office based business employing over 30 people (based on QLD WHS Legislation): Implement an OHS Management System to achieve compliance with QLD WHS Act, 1995, s.29 (d). Develop a plan with accountability and timelines as a means of managing safety within the workplace (AS4801 – [...]

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