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Business Continuity and Health and Safety

The August Safety Networking Group session included a presentation on the interrelation between Business Continuity, Emergency & Safety. The presentation considered common…

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SNG Meeting Report – Workplace Health: How do you put the ‘H’ back into WHS

During August Queensland Rail hosted the quarterly Safety Networking Group session. Roslyn Miller, a Senior Advisor within WHSQ’s Healthy Workers Initiative presented…

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Benefits of Safety Audits

Most Australian organisations over a certain size incorporate a regular safety auditing program as part of their safety management systems. As outlined…

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Effective Risk Culture

A part of the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis was an examination of why there were unasked questions, ignored warnings, and…

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Are your internal audits simply about compliance?

The very nature of the word ‘audit’ conjures up images of an inspector, policeman or even judge.  No matter how much positive…

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Safety Leadership

To effectively manage the WHS challenges within modern-day industry it has become evident that relying solely on a Management System will only…

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Risk Normalisation

Risk management as business best practice, and the regular use of risk identification in the workplace, are now well-embedded in organisations across…

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Is your Business Continuity Program risk focussed?

Most Business Continuity Plans (BCP) include consideration of the Critical Functions within the organisation, including the need to identify them together with…

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How Accountable are the ‘Bean-Counters’?

WHS legislation across Australia imposes clear duties and obligations on business owners, managers and workers in relation to maintaining a safe workplace.…

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