OFSC releases new fact sheet: Guidance for Producing Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) Do you need guidance to develop your Safe Work Method Statements? The Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner has new support available for builders and civil contractors developing Safe Work Method … [Read more...] about Safe Work Method Statements
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Protecting Your Health and Safety While Away at College
Protecting Your Health and Safety While Away at College Guest Post Going away to college can be the most exciting time in a young person's life. Living away from home, making new friends, experiencing new things, and entering adulthood for the first time can bring a lot of changes at once, and … [Read more...] about Protecting Your Health and Safety While Away at College
Its about Health AND Safety
Its about Health AND Safety Guest post by Michael As I write this the manager of the largest ohs discussion site is in heavy training for a charity event a one hundred and sixty kilometre bike ride then a run for a few kilometres all in plus thirty temperatures and that’s just practice! The … [Read more...] about Its about Health AND Safety
Progress? in Health & Safety
Progress? in Health & Safety By George Robotham I had to give a talk about health and safety to a different group of people than I normally talk to, so I decided to try something different. My research led me to early causes of health & safety problems and early health & safety … [Read more...] about Progress? in Health & Safety
The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership by George Robotham This article was first published here in May 2012 and was very well received – I have decided to republish it for anyone who missed out. People do not care how much you know, they want to know how much you … [Read more...] about The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
Interesting History of Health and Safety
Interesting History of Health and Safety Image Source Image Source You have probably all see the famous photograph “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper” taken taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center. It was … [Read more...] about Interesting History of Health and Safety
Draft Model Work Health and Safety Regulations
Draft Model Work Health and Safety Regulations In a Media Release today, Mr Tom Phillips AM, Safe Work Australia Chair, announced the commencement of the public comment period on the draft model Work Health and Safety Regulations and priority model Codes of Practice.Read the media release The … [Read more...] about Draft Model Work Health and Safety Regulations
Office Risk Assessment Tool
Office Risk Assessment Tool UK Health and Safety Executive have released a new online risk assessment tool that they claim will: "help cut back the time it takes to weigh up the hazards in offices to just 20 minutes". The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has produced the web tool to help … [Read more...] about Office Risk Assessment Tool
Importance of a Chemical Risk Assessment and some Guidelines
Importance of a Chemical Risk Assessment and some Guidelines Guest Post It’s easy to smirk at this world of healthy and safety we’ve found ourselves in, or feel that the minefield of regulations only exist to hinder us. But there are few of us that wouldn’t gasp if we went to work in an … [Read more...] about Importance of a Chemical Risk Assessment and some Guidelines
Safety Product Search
Safety Product Search www.safetyproductsearch.com Safety Product Search is a fully interactive website providing a detailed database of Health and Safety protection equipment, videos, news and safety exhibitions to manufactures and distributors involved in Health and Safety industries … [Read more...] about Safety Product Search