Written by: Stuart Platt During our Audits and inspections, we often come across risk assessment that are generic templates (not specific) and do not reflect the activities being observed i.e. missed hazards, not site specific or the controls documented are not the ones implemented etc. Usually on further investigation it is identified that they were …
by Stuart Platt 11/12/2018 Have you ever been asked ‘What is your main hazard in your workplace?’ Were you able to answer? Well,do you know what your top 5 hazards are within your organisation? Most people/organisations only focus on the ‘big ticket item’ and sometimes forget the other potential risks, or they have a risk register …
Written by Guy LeNoir Australian Work-related traumatic injury fatalities The work-related traumatic injury fatalities data provides statistics about people who die each year from injuries caused by work-related activity. It includes fatalities that result from an injury sustained in the course of a work activity (worker fatality) and as a result of someone else’s work …
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WILL LITHIUM BE THE NEXT METAL POISONING? By Guy LeNoir – Director / SOS-Switched Onto Safety What is Lithium? Lithium is the lightest of metals, is an alkali metal and like all alkali metals, it is highly reactive with strong oxidants, acids and many compounds including concrete, sand (silica) and of all things, asbestos. Posing …
Imminent legislative changes to electrical safety in Western Australia are about to come into effect! Do you know about them or are you ready? Changes are being made in the; Electrical (Licensing) Regulation of WA 1991, The Code of Practice to: Working on or near Energized Electrical Installations and amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 1996. …
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Imminent legislative changes to electrical safety in Western Australia are about to come into effect! Do you know about them or are you ready? Changes are being made in the; Electrical (Licensing) Regulation of WA 1991, The Code of Practice to Working on or near Energized Electrical Installations and amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health …
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We have started in the cyclone season (officially November 1) You may be wondering why we are raising this issue. Well it has come to our attention through our auditing and consulting work, that it does not appear that everyone working in these cyclone prone areas take these natural hazards as seriously as they should. …
Written by: Stuart Platt 8/8/17 In our everyday interactions in the field, conducting audits and inspections for our clients, we are constantly identifying contractors, subcontractors, individual members of management teams and/or individual workers not following the site/project rules (or not abiding by general safety standards at all). Sometimes we ask them why? To try and …
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 …