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Bring Your Child To Work Day

July 17, 2016 by James Parkinson 9 Comments

Bring Your Child To Work Day Over 20 years ago an organization in the U.S started encouraging employees and employers to have a designated take your child to work day. At some places the practice has taken hold, at others it hasn't. It's truly a novel idea and one we can utilize to work safer. The … [Read more...] about Bring Your Child To Work Day

Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Learning Tagged With: Child Safety

Connect –Teaching Young People About Safety and Life

May 29, 2016 by Admin 5 Comments

Connect –Teaching Young People About Safety and Life By the late George Robotham SU QLD's Connect Program (http://su-connect.org.au/) is a long-term adventure-based learning program designed to help young people who are "at risk" — facing exclusion from school, come from broken homes or are locked … [Read more...] about Connect –Teaching Young People About Safety and Life

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Risk Management Tagged With: Child Safety, risk and safety, young people

School Fair Safety

May 13, 2016 by Admin 3 Comments

School Fete Safety I got an email from a reader overnight and it really concerned me. Schools have a huge responsibility in regards to student safety and from what I have seen, generally take this responsibility very seriously and professionally. However, some of the stuff I have seen come come … [Read more...] about School Fair Safety

Filed Under: Road Safety Tagged With: Child Safety, Events, fair, Family Safety, fete, School Safety, traffic management plan

There has to be a better way

February 4, 2014 by Admin 5 Comments

There has to be a better way to say it? I was recently enjoying a great day at the local pool when I spotted this massive, confronting sign - kinda killed the fun for me! For starters it isn’t worded correctly – the top message implies that the parents weren’t properly supervised! I can get … [Read more...] about There has to be a better way

Filed Under: Safety Photos Tagged With: better way, Child Safety, responsible parents, Safety Overkill, swimming pool, Swimming Pool Safety

School ditches rules and loses bullies

January 28, 2014 by Admin Leave a Comment

School ditches rules and loses bullies Encouraging article about unwrapping the cotton wool, encouraging creative play and ripping up the stupid rules book. While most teachers were horrified before this experiment began, the results have been quite amazing. Kids now have an outlet for their … [Read more...] about School ditches rules and loses bullies

Filed Under: Risk Aversion Tagged With: Child Safety, ditch rules, getting hurt, risk, Risk Taking, school rules, School Safety

Congratulations-we made it

January 22, 2014 by Admin 9 Comments

Congratulations - we made it - I can't believe it! If you were born before the 90s then you are one of the extraordinary few who has made it this far and you will love this short video. Kids these days are lucky to have the Regulators to protect them! Remember when nobody had ever heard of Risk … [Read more...] about Congratulations-we made it

Filed Under: Risk Aversion, Risk Management Tagged With: Child Safety, facebook, kids, regulators, Risk Management

Young Worker Safety

December 15, 2013 by George Robotham Leave a Comment

Young Worker Safety Photo: Colorado Historical Society Working with young people brings unique safety challenges to the OHS professional, supervisors and managers. Workers 15-24 have a 75% greater chance of being killed on the job, often their accidents happen in the first 2 weeks of … [Read more...] about Young Worker Safety

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: Child Safety, Safety Reflections, Young Workers

Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban

October 30, 2013 by Admin 5 Comments

Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban We wrote about this issue 3 years ago and it is still ongoing despite a tragic balcony death last year! Some apartment owners are doing the right thing. See recent article in the Courier Mail Having nearly been hit by a watermelon thrown of a balcony a few … [Read more...] about Schoolies face Gold Coast balcony ban

Filed Under: Balconies and Balustrades Tagged With: Balconies, balcony, balustrade, Body Corporate, Child Safety, gold coast, health and safety, Insurance, lockout, office of fair trading, projectiles, queensland, rise apartment, safety concerns, safety risk, school exams, schoolies, watermelon

Playground Safety

October 22, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

Playground Safety All kids like to spend some time at the playground no matter what time of the year it is. The biggest challenge for parents and caregivers is ensuring that the playground is safe for the child. It is important that the child’s playground area is carefully examined prior to … [Read more...] about Playground Safety

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: accidents, Child Safety, playground, Playground Safety

A child’s room can be the most dangerous place at night

October 16, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

A child’s room can be the most dangerous place at night My kids recently had a talk at school from a cyber crime Detective – he scared the $%#@ out of them with his examples of how easy it is to find out “private and personal” info about them online and how a few key strokes can have them end up in … [Read more...] about A child’s room can be the most dangerous place at night

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: Child Safety, online crime, Online Safety

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