Bureaucracy and Paperwork in OHS Introduction I believe bureaucracy and paperwork is strangling innovation and progress in OHS. Overly complex systems are being used and people give up because it is too much like hard work. Some examples One organisation I was associated with … [Read more...] about Bureaucracy and Paperwork in OHS
Safety Systems
Updating your Safety System for Harmonisation
Another great article from our favourite Safety Nerd: What system to use to update your WHS system? Posted on December 5, 2011 by The Safety Nerd Recently I’ve been working with quite a lot of company’s updating their system documents in line with the impending WHS changes. Some of the … [Read more...] about Updating your Safety System for Harmonisation
How to Introduce a Harmonised Safety System
Introducing a harmonised OHS Management System – by George Robotham “Assume for a moment, you have a newly established business, and you have been tasked with establishing a corporate (not operational) OH&S system, that complies with the new Commonwealth OH&S Act. How would you go about … [Read more...] about How to Introduce a Harmonised Safety System
Handy Hints For Safety People
Handy Hints For Safety People By George Robotham, Practical tips for implementing a new or revising an existing Safety Management System (S.M.S.) Quotable Quote "A health & safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It can only … [Read more...] about Handy Hints For Safety People
Wildrose Safety Systems Newsletter
Wildrose Safety Systems Newsletter The latest Newsletter from our good friends in Canada, Wildrose Safety Systems. Highly recommended reading! Download Here: [download id="177"] (In case you are wondering – The Wild Rose is the Alberta Official Provincial Flower) In this issue: THINK … [Read more...] about Wildrose Safety Systems Newsletter
Safety Made Simple
Safety Made Simple Organisations wanting to implement a basic OHS Management system may find this 80page package from QBE Connect a useful starting point. This is not an endorsement of the product, just what I found while searching for something else. Your thoughts on its value are … [Read more...] about Safety Made Simple
People are our greatest assets, not paperwork
People are our greatest assets, not paperwork If you have been following this blog for even a little while you would have realised that I am definitely not a proponent of focusing purely on legislative compliance, reliance on technology, convoluted systems producing reams of paper work that nobody … [Read more...] about People are our greatest assets, not paperwork
DIY WHS Management System Guide
Review - Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems - D.I.Y Guide UPDATE: THIS BOOK IS NOW FREE!! Download here: http://bennsons.com/home-2/ We just received our copy of this new book by Jessica Urquhart After reading the initial description of the book: Workplace Health and Safety … [Read more...] about DIY WHS Management System Guide
Commercial Safety Management Systems
Commercial Safety Management Systems by the late George Robotham No doubt there are commercial safety managements systems that add value to organisation’s safety effort but I experienced one that was a disaster. The introduction of the overseas S.M.S. was led aggressively by senior management … [Read more...] about Commercial Safety Management Systems
The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system
Another article by the late, legendary Safety Guru, George Robotham. George’s Safety Reflections-Number 6 The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system Have well developed internal standards of OHS excellence. Define what excellence in implementation of the standards … [Read more...] about The 10 most important things in a robust safety management system