workplace safety

Quality Access Ladders Maximise Workplace Safety and Efficiency

Height Safety

Quality Access Ladders Maximise Workplace Safety and Efficiency Guest Post Quality access ladders are a cost-effective solution to providing safe access to any high areas, whether indoors or outdoors. Thus, if you need to provide your employees with a safe way to reach roof areas, between roof levels, maintenance platforms or ceiling areas, access ladders [...]

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Eight Steps to Writing the Workplace Safety Speech

Safety Talk

Announcing New White Paper: Eight Steps to Writing the Workplace Safety Speech Written on April 11, 2012 by Marie-Claire Ross Writing an engaging Safety Speech can be Tricky.  This New Report reveals the Key Steps behind writing a convincing Workplace Safety Speech.  Melbourne, Australia (11 April, 2012) – Digicast Productions, a safety and induction training [...]

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Fatal Work Related Injuries

Injury Prevention

Fatal Work Related Injuries Guest Post The workplace can be a dangerous place and accidents happen. Some jobs are more hazardous than others and as you’ll see so are some locations. Industrial Disease is a term used to describe illness and injury caused at work and unfortunately some of these result in death. We have [...]

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Workplace safety a deadly responsibility

Workplace Safety

Workplace safety a deadly responsibility by: Liberty Sanger From: Sunday Herald Sun December 18, 2011 12:00AM I HAD a conversation with an employer recently who told me his firm had a simple message for workers: if it’s not safe, don’t do it. There are rights and laws that protect workers who refuse to perform unsafe [...]

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Don’t Incentivize Workplace Safety

Safety Incentives

Continuing our debate on the pros and cons for safety incentive schemes, a great article from by Lance Haun – read it here: inShare Don’t Incentivize Workplace Safety Let’s say you work for one of these companies that has heavy machinery, sharp blades and furnaces. Sounds pretty cool, right? Okay, maybe that’s just me. I [...]

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Managing Safety in the Workplace: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility

Managing Safety

Managing Safety in the Workplace: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility Traditionally, workplace safety has been the sole jurisdiction of safety and health professionals. However, due to the critical nature of the safety function and its impact on organization costs, it is better viewed as the joint responsibility of several functions, including Operations, Human Resources, Finance, and Risk [...]

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Loading Unloading Exclusion Zones (LUEZ)

Forklift Safety
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Sign from SETON Download Guidelines Here:   The issue of truck driver and other personnel safety around mobile plant equipment during loading and unloading operations – referred to as ‘loading, unloading exclusion zones’ (LUEZ) is one of the significant safety issues confronting all levels of Industries within the supply chain. Workplace safety incidents within the [...]

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Safety and Health in the Workplace – Physical, Mental and Social

Articles

Safety and Health in the Workplace – Physical, Mental and Social By Jayme Carl Safety and Health in the workplace is more than just accident prevention. A good safety program needs to look at and address all aspects of working conditions. When looking at safety and health in the workplace, we refer to the conditions [...]

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Workplace Health and Safety – What Are the Costs?

Accidents

Workplace Safety and Health – What Are the Costs? By Jayme Carl Workplace safety & health should not be directed by cost, but unfortunately sometimes it is. Workplace accidents injuries or diseases sometimes have very serious direct cost associated. Sometimes the costs are not so direct. Indirect cost of not keeping a safe workplace can [...]

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Safety advice for rebuilding and repairing flooded homes

Flood Safety

Qld Govt have provided this health and safety related advice that should be read by anyone involved in cleaning, rebuilding or repairing a flood damaged home: Rebuilding and repairing homes – Visit QLD Govt Website for more The Building Services Authority (BSA) Information and advice for residents, builders and trade contractors on rebuilding and repairing [...]

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Smart OHS

Safety Software

Smart OHS aims to change how Workers’ Compensation is offered to Australian businesses SYDNEY 23 December 2010: Today Smart OHS announced that it would target insurers and brokers in all states to distribute the updated version of its Smart OHS online workplace safety system. Smart OHS Executive Director, Chris Beasley, said the move to partner [...]

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Workplace Safety Poem

Safety Slogans

Thanks to Scott Hafer for sending this in: Work place safety, our obligation grows, it’s not about the money or the company, it’s about our families as we all know. The obligation of safety is not a joke, our bodies or our families, we do not want broke. Before you leave home each day, look [...]

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Safety Culture – Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions

Accidents

Safety Culture – Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions? By James Roughton I am a firm believer that injuries happen for a reason! There are many that will agree with this statement, while others will rationalize that some injuries are just, “Freak accidents.” If you listen to news reporters on your local new stations, [...]

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Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Download Free Risk Assessment Templates from our huge collection here: RISK ASSESSMENT TEMPLATES Risk Assessment In any job or workplace, certain risks exist.  For some jobs, the risks are minimal, like carpal tunnel in office work, however, in other jobs, the risks can be quite large and/or quite commonplace.  Mining, for example, presents risks to [...]

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Safety Images

Safety Photos
Safety Photo

Mouse in helmet image from: You Can Be Funny.com Safety Images Share Your Safety Images Here Just as safety slogans can help employees remember safety protocols, safety images can also be safety catalysts in the workplace.  Serving as quick visual reminders of safety procedures, safety posters and cartoons can decrease accidents and fatalities.  Often, simple [...]

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Workplace Safety Games

Safety Games

[picappgallerysingle id="8511213"] Try something a little different to encourage employees to listen to your safety messages: SAFETY BINGO™ is a powerful, low-cost tool that enables employers to combat and control spiraling workers’ compensation rates. SAFETY BINGO™ does this by motivating employees on a daily basis to create a safety conscious atmosphere resulting in fewer safety [...]

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Weekly Toll

Workers Compensation

Weekly Toll Published by USMWF United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities Review Summary by Lexis Nexis: Created in January 2007, this compendium of news on death in the workplace is a somber reminder of the tragedy that occurs with workplace safety gone wrong. Weekly Toll puts a human face on workplace fatality statistics, and [...]

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Safety Committees – How to run an Occupational Health and Safety Meeting – Safetycare

Safety Committee

Safety Committees – How to run an Occupational Health and Safety Meeting – Safetycare

School committees, sporting committees, church committees and w…

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Workplace Safety Apps for iphone

Safety Software

Still searching for the best health and safety apps for iphone. Seems to be very few available. This is the only one I could find. When I have a chance I’ll down load and review – unless someone else has already done that and wants to make a comment. Its called “WORKPLACE SAFETY – SEE [...]

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Adware Flags and Poles

Boating Safety

Just listed in our new Safety Directory Adware are Manufacturers of safety windsocks, windsock poles, windsock frames, windsock suppliers for Airfields, Helipads, Quarries, Water Treatment Plants, Mines, Building site dust monitoring, Workplace safety, Mariners, Boat Docks, ship harbours, Yacht Clubs. Visit their website Technorati Tags: adware, airfields, boat docks, flags, mines building, safety directory, water [...]

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Free Safety Shockers Images

Construction safety images

This site is the ultimate resource for shocking and stupid safety photos, pictures and images. Contributors include Workplace Safety Inspectors and a network of Safety Professionals. The site is a combined effort of the SAFTENG Network and the Victorian Worksafe Authority as part of their Safety Soapbox campaign so it has a very good pedigree! [...]

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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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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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