Category: Safety

WHS Risk Registers

A WHS Risk Register is not technically required under the WHS Legislation. Nor is this term discussed in ISO 45001 or ISO…

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Health and Safety Checks When Returning to the Office

Following nearly two and a half years of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many organisations have begun the process of requiring…

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Legislative Requirements for Safe Work Method Statements (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our series on Safe Work Method Statements, or SWMS, we looked at the lesser known and lesser understood…

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Legislative Requirements for Safe Work Method Statements (Part 1)

Safe Work Method Statements, commonly called SWMS, have been around for many years now. In this two-part series of articles on SWMS,…

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How much can we rely on hazard reporting?

Hazard identification is a principal tenet of every risk/safety management system. Every good management system asserts that hazards are to be identified…

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How Do you Keep Up To Date With WHS Regulatory Changes?

Whether your organisation is aiming to have its Safety Management System comply with ISO 45001 OHS Management Systems Standard, the Self-Insurance National…

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Learning to prevent work fatalities

The 28th of April was the International Day of Mourning remembering and commemorating those who have lost their lives to work-related incidents…

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When will we get serious about Asbestos?

Late last year my mother died of mesothelioma, inhaling the asbestos fibres from cutting fibro sheeting in the early 50s when she…

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Workplace Culture (Part 2)

In Part 1 of our article on Workplace Culture, we explored a key contributor to a positive workplace culture, that being worker…

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