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.Lessons learnt …
Written by: Stuart Platt 8/8/17In 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 understand the …
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 …