Training

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 [...]

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Why do we miss safety hazards

Hazard Pictures

This is a great resource to use at your next safety training session or tool box talk. Explains why sometimes we miss hazards in the workplace due to focus on other outcomes. This was a very famous experiment to prove that we don’t always see what is right in front of us. Read more about [...]

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Safety Poem

Articles

I’ve seen this on notice boards and read out in toolbox talks – seems to have the desired effect: I could have saved a life that day, But I chose to look the other way. It wasn’t that I didn’t care; I had the time, and I was there. But I didn’t want to seem [...]

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Training Accountabilities and Managing Contractors

Contractor Induction

RECENT ARTICLE FROM NOEL ARNOLD & ASSOCIATES: Principal Contractors have a Common Law duty of care to protect the health, welfare and safety of independent contractors. In brief, this duty of care includes: Reasonable care in employment of subcontractors/ independent contractors, ensuring they are competent to control their systems of work; duty to retain general supervision of [...]

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Risk Assessment Training

Risk Assessment Forms

Found this really good risk management training outline published online by SMARTSAFE Download Here: TABLE OF CONTENTS PREPARATION INTRODUCTION LEARNING OUTCOMES HAZARD AND RISK RISK ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS PROJECT RISK ASSESSMENT Establishing The Team Segregation Of Activities HAZARD IDENTIFICATION TYPES OF HAZARDS CATEGORIES OF HAZARDS DETERMINING THE RISK LEVEL Assessing The Risk Using Rapid Ranking THE [...]

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Risk Management Training

ISO31000

I had a chance the other day to sit in on an Introduction to Risk Management Course being run at a clients premises. The trainer was a consultant from InConsult. It was one of the most interesting courses Ive attended for some time and there was not one bored face or Blackberry in the room. [...]

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Basic Rigging High Risk Licence Start-up Pack

Safety Training

A new release from Easy Guides Start-Up Packs give you a bundle of fully-mapped training resources for units of competency. You see, we’ve done all the hard work for you. A typical high risk licence Start-Up Pack includes: – 1 x Information Book – 1 x Learner Workbook – 1 x Trainer’s Handbook – 1 [...]

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Safety Dance Lyrics

Health and Safety

I did a search on Google yesterday for the term “safety” and one of the search phrases suggested by Google was “safety dance lyrics”. I straight away had a flash back to the 1980″s – remember when that was a No1 hit by Men Without Hats? I’m still not exactly sure what it means but [...]

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Free Powerpoint Safety Presentations

Free Safety Stuff

The University of Vermont provides this resource for Powerpoint Safety Presentations.  We have reviewed quite a few of them and they do provide good examples if you are stuck for how do develop a presentation for safety talks or employee safety training. Be aware that some of them are a few years old and they [...]

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Compression Tights For Sport Safety

Sport Safety

Run Faster and Longer in Compression Tights By Nick Capra When I started running longer distances in my CWX Expert tights I did notice that I felt stronger and recovered more quickly. At first I’ll admit, I chalked it up to the old placebo effect. I mean how could tights make this much of a [...]

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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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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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Woolworths Contractor Induction

Contractor Induction

Contractors and sub contractors engaged to perform work on Woolworths premises or locations are required to comply with Woolworths SH&E policies, procedures and programs as specified in their contract/agreement and to observe directions on health and safety from designated officers of the organisation. The requirements of relevant statutory acts, regulations and Codes of Practices must [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 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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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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