What safety leadership strategies should you adopt

Here is a nice summary written by Dominic Cooper   http://www.behavioral-safety.com  Let us know what you think… The common Safety Leadership strategies appear to be: [1] Encouraging people to take personal responsibility for safety by setting expectations for each layer (Senior, Middle, Front-line management, and employees) linked to clear goals. These should be created at a dedicated session […]

The road to AS 4801 OHS certification

WHY? Benefits of an OHSMS helping create safer work environments reducing injuries and injury-related costs – by pre-empting injuries, employers save money on medical expenses, the injured employee’s wages, insurance claim excesses, replacement labour and increased workers’ compensation insurance premiums improving business opportunities – many companies have preferential purchasing policies that favour purchasing products or […]

Great performance means success, and we know how to measure it!

The following information was drafted in order to make an argument for the affirmative for this recent ComCare Debate. Peter Druker – ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’ Definition according to AS 4804 1997 Safety performance: the measurable results of the OHS management system related to the organisations control of health and safety risks, […]

Help us build a benchmark for OHS culture

Click on the link and complete our survey, you will be able to view the results at the end. See how your business compares. http://www.oneminutepoll.com/OneMinutePoll/OneMinuteSurvey.aspx?SID=-2147482153

LinkedIn Group – OHS in Australia

I have started a group on Linkedin. If you are a member on Linkedin, and would like to join this group, send me an email and I will invite you. I am hoping to get some good OHS related discussions and articles going, so if your are interested in OHS it could be good for […]

AS4801 versus SafetyMAP

 If you live in Victoria, you have the choice of these 2 auditing tools. My opinion is that SafetyMAP is the best. I have implemented systems and had them audited with both tools. Basically, SafetyMap advanced level is equivalent to AS4801. This is why I would use SafetyMAP (even though WorkSafe doesn’t seem to promote […]

OHS Culture verses OHS Management Systems

It is really like the nature versus nurture debate. One cannot really exist effectively without the other. They both feed off each other and cannot survive in isolation. Which comes first, unlike the chicken and the egg argument, there is a clear answer to this one – OHS Management systems must come first! The system […]