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 [...]

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Balconies and Balustrades

BCA

Each year, people are killed or seriously injured by either falling from balconies or being hit by objects which have fallen from balconies. Falls from upper storey windows has also led to fatalities. Balconies are used by adults and children for a range of activities including entertaining, playing, storage, relaxing and drying of clothes. Given [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Classic Risk Management Quote

Events
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Classic Risk Management Quote We love to use this poignant quote whenever anyone says “we’ve never had an accident/fire/injury/claim/problem”: “When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Coles Contractor Online Induction Test

Contractor Induction

Following a number of serious incidents involving contractors, the Coles Group, like many other organisations, insist that any person undertaking physical work on their sites must undertake their online induction process. This includes Contractors, Suppliers and Demonstrators. The program is relatively straight forward and the test is easy to pass after listening to the presentation and [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Safety Alert – Safety Switches

Electrical Safety

View the alert online Electricity safety regulator, Energy Safe Victoria (ESV), has issued this “Safety Alert” to warn the community – householders and business operators – of the importance of installing safety switches in premises and ensuring that all electrical equipment is in good condition and not damaged in any way. The “Alert” has been [...]

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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 [...]

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Safety for Event Volunteers

Employees Safety

Volunteering Australia is the national peak body working to advance volunteering in the Australian community.  Its role is to represent the diverse views and needs of the volunteer sector while promoting the activity of volunteering as one of enduring social, cultural and economic value. Their website provides a number of guides, booklets and articles about [...]

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Safety Committee Charter Example

Employees Safety

<Insert workgroup name> Safety Committee Charter In accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act NSW (2000), OHS Regulation NSW (2001) and the WorkCover NSW OHS Consultation Code of Practice (2001). 1.   Represented workgroup (a)  The <Insert workgroup name> workgroup comprises all employees who <describe the work location or team composition>. 2.   Objectives (a)  [...]

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Asbestos Audits and Inspections

Building Safety

Article courtesy of Safe Environments Asbestos Inspections Asbestos inspections are required for buildings that are likely to contain asbestos. The NSW OHS regulation requires that all buildings suspected of containing asbestos materials must have asbestos inspections conducted. However not all asbestos inspections are the same. The type of asbestos inspections during occupation will be different to [...]

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Safety Committee Meetings and Toolbox Talks

Employees Safety

Looking for new ideas to inject some life into your safety committee meetings, safety training courses or toolbox talks? Checkout the new range of Safety Meeting Guides and Safety Quiz Cards from Work Safety Solutions Environmental Safety Meeting Guide Environmental Safety Meeting Outlines contain a complete guideline to run a productive and motivating meeting. It [...]

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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

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Shopping Trolley Collection

Car Parks

There have been a number of recent fatalities involving shopping trolley (shopping cart) collectors. In response to a fatality a few years ago when an elastic strap broke and killed a young boy, the West Australian Retailers Association issued a Code of Prcatice for Safe Management of Shopping Trolley Collection more info Worksafe recently issued [...]

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Steps and Stairs Safety

Liability Cases & Claims

STEPS AND STAIR SAFETY The following articles have been provided by  Safe Environments Safe Environments is a multi-specialist consultancy operating in the building, construction and property management industries. Our consultants are experts in building materials, ergonomics, occupational hygiene and occupational health & safety. our core services include: Property Safety Risk Inspections & OHS Compliance Audits [...]

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Electronic Risk Score Calculator (nomogram)

Risk Assessment Forms

Click here to download: If you find this tool helpful, please consider mentioning us on Twitter or Facebook or even linking to us from your blog or website. Risk Score Nomograms are based on OHS Risk Assessment AS/NZS 4804:2001 and contained in HB205-2004 OHS Risk Management Handbook. The Ratings used for the Risk Calculation have [...]

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Safety Slogans

Employees Safety

Safety slogans have been around for a long time and although sometimes they may seem a bit corny, they can lighten the mood with a little humour and create a strong awareness of safety issues or concerns more successfully than traditional methods. A snappy one liner is likely to be accepted better than a 10 [...]

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What is Employee Onboarding?

Employees Safety

A client recently asked me to review their “onboarding procedures”. Given that, among other activities, they occasionally send guests on sight seeing tours I just assumed they were talking about getting passengers onto a boat! Apparently not – I now know that its a trendy human resources term for what I used to call new [...]

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