Written By Stuart Platt 22 December 2016 The threat is still out there Asbestos is the name given to a group of six different fibrous minerals occurring naturally in our environment—amosite, chrysotile, crocidolite, and the fibrous varieties of tremolite, actinolite, and anthophyllite. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral which has low treatment and refinement costs. …
12th December 2016 By: Megan LeNoir Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) in Australia – What does this mean to you? What do you know about it? What do your organisations personnel know about it? Australia has adopted the third revised edition of the GHS under the Work Health and Safety …
18th November 2016 By: Megan LeNoir Applying Lessons learned, what does it mean? As the question suggests it is learning from incidents to prevent the same or similar incidents from happening again. Everyday throughout Australia and the world in fact, a high number of workers die and a much greater number are seriously injured. The …
1st November 2016 By: Megan LeNoir Ladder Safety, it seems a simple enough concept, however a report released by Safe Work Australia in 2013 (Work-Related Injuries and Fatalities Involving a Fall from Height, Australia, Safe Work Australia October 2013) showed that despite increased awareness of workplace safety and health risks, there was no decrease in …
CYCLONE SEASON – ARE YOU PREPARED? By Guy LeNoir 20th October 2016 With the cyclone season fast approaching (officially November 1) the Bureau of Meteorology has issued a concern regarding potentially a higher than normal frequency of cyclones this season. You may be wondering why we are raising this issue. Well it has come to …
By Megan LeNoir There are always conversations regarding safety in the workplace and making sure we stay safe at work so we can go home to our family and friends. But do we put as much thought into safety at home, especially for our young people. The residential home is second only to the road …
By Megan and Stuart When SOS-Switched Onto Safety started in business some 20 years ago we started out just in OSH. We have broadened our knowledge and experience over these years too incorporate environment as we could see that over this time, organisations themselves were wanting to include environmental aspects in their systems for numerous …
by Megan LeNoir 1st September 2016 Something that doesn’t always get talked about is Small Business Safety. Having been a part of the ThinkSafe Small Business program and being a small business ourselves we understand that there are many things to think about in order for a business to survive and succeed. This may include …
Stuart Platt 19th August 2016 Have you ever wondered what the benefits of having a Quality Management System are. When we started SOS-Switched Onto Safety we developed and implemented a Quality Management System for two key reasons: As neither of the owners of SOS-Switched Onto Safety had any experience in running a business, they decided …
During our everyday SOS-Switched Onto Safety business activities we see good things and bad things (and everything in between) in relation to Occupational Safety and Health. We actually say in our business when we are not ‘on duty’ we have to wear our ‘blinkers’. It was interesting to read that over the past financial year, …