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Safety Standards for Your Small Business

Safety Standards

Safety Standards for Your Small Business Guest Post You probably know you need to have First Aid kits available for your small or medium-sized business. But do you know how many are required for the square footage of your operations building? You know you need fire extinguishers. Do you know whether they expire or not? [...]

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Health and Safety for Small Businesses

Small Business

Health and Safety for Small Businesses In business, it’s essential that employers provide a safe working environment for employees, and there are some general health and safety precautions which every business should take, as well as specific ones based on circumstances and sector. Fire Any business premises must have appropriate fire escapes by law, and [...]

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12 ways to make small business safer

Safety Systems

New safety guide out from Worksafe Vic Quote from the Guide: “This handbook describes 12 workplace health and safety hazards that safety inspectors regularly find during visits to small businesses. It also describes some of the injuries or illnesses that can happen if these hazards are not controlled” Manual handling, Housekeeping – slips, trips and [...]

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Media Release – WA Safety Show Success

Safety News

The WA Safety Show draws employers hungry for safety answers Western Australia’s employers turned out in force to learn about new legislation and uncover solutions to workplace safety challenges at the WA Safety Show last week. The state’s largest workplace safety trade show, it hosted 150 safety and materials handling suppliers and ran concurrently with [...]

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Safety For Small Business

Small Business

I’ve just had a quick look thru Workcover’s Small business pack. For any small business wondering how they are going or wanting to know what to do next, in regards to workplace safety, this is a really practical resource. The pack takes you thru a self assessment of your current situation for the critical safety [...]

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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 [...]

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