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Safety Articles – General Articles
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General Articles:
- Absolute Shocker
- Foreseeable hazards are not adequately identified
- Product Recall : Compact Tractor wiith Loader and Backhoe work series. Orange in Colour with Branding as KUBOTA BX24 or BX25
- Why correct storing and labelling of chemicals is important for safety
- 'e-fabrics' Detect Toxic gases
- 1 in 10 workers absent or affected by drugs at work
- 10 tips for staying healthy this winter
- 3 Steps to Managing Workplace Mental Health Issues
- 30 Safety lessons from mining dozer accident
- 5 billion people to be short-sighted by 2050
- 6 simple ways to safely manage cold working conditions
- A call for 'passport' to improve contractor safety
- A carrot and stick approach to safety
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- Absolute Shocker : Crane Circus Stunt
- Absolute Shocker : Portable 4 socket-outlet assemblies (PSOAs)
- Absolute Shocker- Lifting
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- Action Needed on Chemical Hazards in the Workplace
- Additional routes added to heavy vehicle networks
- Adequately communicating trench risks?
- Are prescription pills and work a dangerous mix?
- Are we focussing in the right place with mental health in the workplace?
- Are we legislating and managing for accidents
- Are we spending too many hours barking up the wrong tree in what motivates our workplace behaviour?
- Are you driving your workers’ mad?
- Are you GHS ready?
- Are you storm ready ?
- Are you suffering from the ‘back-to-work blues’?
- Are your signs working? Do people follow them?
- ARE YOUR WORKERS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO EXHAUST FUMES?
- Arthritis and musculoskeletal issues cost $7.4 billion
- ATA alerts drivers to seatbelt safety options
- Attitude towards Risk Taking and Rule Breaking In Australian Workplaces
- Australian workplace the most volatile in terms of employee turnover
- Avoiding the pitfalls of behavioural based safety
- BHPB’S APPROACH TO DIESEL EXHAUST
- Booted off site!
- Bring on the safety storyteller
- Bullying awareness in the workplace
- BUSHFIRE SAFETY
- Businesses urged to manage workplace noise
- Call for end of year safety diligence
- Calls for comment on lead in the workplace
- Capral Aluminium workers find solutions for manual task risks
- Carcinogen Exposures in the Construction Industry
- CEOs need to play greater role in safety leadership
- Challenging your safety paradigms- How do people get hurt ?
- CHANGES TO LAWS RELATING TO PRINCIPAL CONTRACTORS
- Changing Attitude towards Health and Safety in the Construction Industry
- Chemicals can damage hearing
- Closing the loophole on hand safety conformance
- Colds
- Communication issues caused risks for lift maintenance workers
- Compliance machine safety trends “worrying”
- Concrete Pumping
- Confined Spaces
- Construction companies hiring health and wellbeing practitioners
- Construction helmet to protect workers from CO poisoning
- Construction workers Awarded for Crane Fire Bravery
- Contractor Management
- Coping with Traumatic Events
- Courageous Conversations
- Creating a no blame culture for a safer workplace
- Cut protection for gloves — standard update
- Dangerously cold conditions for Sunshine state workers?
- Deemed Diseases in Australian Workplaces
- Demolition
- Dengue Fever
- Designer Drugs challenge workplace testing programs
- Did the builder require the contracted crane operator to communicate risk issues
- Do line managers in the workplace know how to identify & manage mental health risks?
- Do wellness programs work?
- Do You Have Your Fire Safety Plan For Summer? CFA Fire Safety Kit
- Do you know why your workers are taking sick leave?
- Do your workers look at confined space risk assessments before entering them?
- Do your workforce actually take ergonomic breaks?
- Does your alcohol & drug policy cover consumption or just levels required when you turn up for work?
- Don’t Take CO2 for Granted. Close Shave in New Zealand
- Drink Driving
- Driver Attitude
- Driver Distraction and Inattention
- Driver Fatigue
- Drivers of Positive Safety Culture
- Drug and alcohol policies must be a safety issue
- Drug and Alcohol Use and Safety Issues in the Workplace
- Due Diligence and LTI Days
- Dying for work: the changing face of work-related injuries
- E-WASTE PRODUCES CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS WHEN NOT TREATED PROPERLY
- Employers increase focus on staff health and wellbeing
- Employers urged to encourage flu vaccinations
- EN Standards
- Environmental lead linked to aggressive behaviour
- Excavations
- Fatalities Double
- Fatigued employees are not able to recognise their own level of impairment
- Finding money for WHS
- Fingersaver- Safety for your fingers
- First Aid Facilities
- First Aid in the Workplace
- Five warning signs of employee fatigue
- Focus on young worker safety
- For those of you who swear at work only do it if it is normal workplace behaviour!
- Forklifts Loading
- FORMALDEHYDE NOW A CARCINOGEN
- Formwork code helps form safer workplaces for Queensland construction workers
- Getting a Good night’s sleep
- Getting off to a healthy start in 2012
- Glencore records regrettably high” fatality rate
- Global heat makes work untenable
- Glove shows its true colours
- Good Vibrations
- Government plan to take action on black lung
- Greener buildings are at a cost if HS risks aren’t effectively managed
- Guidance checklist for managing drug testing in-house
- Guide to Managing Risks of Exposure to Carcinogens in the Workplace
- Hand Safety
- Hand washing - why it's important
- Harmful levels of hand-arm vibration
- Has our ability to manage risk exposure duration improved with modern technology?
- Hazardous Exposures in the Workplace
- Hazardous Substances Information System (HSIS) updated
- Health and wellbeing programs on the rise
- Healthier employees perform better and more engaged
- Heavy-industry employers urged to ratchet up workplace health and safety training
- Hi-Vis not really Hi-Vis
- High Noise Communication devices win prestigious award
- High Pressure Water Jetting
- Higher order controls required to reduce fatalities!
- Holiday Hangover
- How beneficial is your shift regime to promote health in your workers?
- How can we design better communication round high risks & high risk work?
- How OHS can effectively manage post-incident investigations
- How Regulators are changing their approach to business
- How safe is your choice of mobile plant?
- How to choose the right safety equipment
- How to Communicate Great Safety Messages
- How to decide if you need to notify Comcare of lead risk work under the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011
- How to drive safety through employee engagement
- How to improve OHS through good work design
- How to improve safety communication outcomes
- How to keep outdoor workers safe from an Australian sun
- How to manage mental health & suicide risk amongst FIFO workers
- Ice use common in construction, manufacturing and transport
- Importance of correctly locking out the free fall controls on mobile cranes
- Importance of safety signs and how to choose the right one
- Importance of the flu Vaccinations
- Important Facts about Confined Spaces Safety
- Improvements made to emergency Communication Services
- Improving mental health in contact centres
- Improving OHS outcomes for an ageing work force
- Improving the underground working environment
- Increased safety accountability for construction planning
- Industrial Relations in 2012
- Industry guide for collision management systems in mines
- Influenza and immunisation
- Influenza or the “flu”
- Injuries Increase under the sun
- Introducing the Hazardous Chemical Information System (HCIS) Database
- Is drug testing working as a deterrent?
- IS IT SURPRISING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF OUR OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE RISK IS SO POOR?
- Is sitting the new smoking?
- Is there a reason why we can’t improve our safety management?
- ISO standards address workplace design
- Keep hydrated, stay productive – The essential guide to hydration in the workplace
- Know the safe working load of your plant?
- LACK OF SLEEP COSTS THE ECONOMY BILLIONS
- Ladder Lunacy
- Lead paint a risk in Queensland workplaces
- Legislation- Mobile Plant in Construction
- Links between visibility and safety from roadway lighting
- Low job control & long commutes makes us sick
- Lowest compensated fatality rate in a decade
- Manage fall risks from truck trays and cranes?
- Managing drug use in the workplace
- Managing fatigue related risk : An accident waiting to happen
- Managing ill or injured workers: Best Practice Guide
- Managing risks of exposure to diesel exhaust in the workplace
- Mates in Construction program expands
- Mates in Construction wins suicide prevention award
- Measuring and reporting on work health and safety
- Mental illness cost mining industry $320- 450 million a year, report reveals
- Mesothelioma Risks among Workers to Stay for a Long Period of Time
- Middle managers the answer to safety improvements in mining & elsewhere?
- Mind the Gap – preventing falls though voids
- Mitigating risks for lone workers in potentially unsafe situations
- Mobile Plant in Civil Construction – Sample site safety checklist
- Model Code of Practice - Labelling of Workplace Hazardous Chemicals
- Most construction workers suffering hearing loss
- Motorist education needed to reduce heavy-vehicle accidents
- MUCH TO CONSIDER IN FIFO WORKER WELLBEING
- Multi-cutters and other discs on power and air tools
- Music equipment is set at levels that may damage our hearing?
- Nanoparticle emissions from laser printers?
- NATIONAL PROJECT ON YOUNG WORKERS HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF SUPERVISORS
- New chemical database supports GHS transition
- New Dads Pose a Safety Risk at Work
- New GHS System for labelling of Hazardous Chemicals
- New poll has revealed how many Victorian employees take sick days or are affected by drugs at work.
- New Psychoactive Drugs: no easy answer
- New report highlights ten year construction injury statistics
- New revelations regarding failed life-saving falls equipment after ABC 7.30 program
- New standard for safer use of chemicals in consumer products
- New technique to remove toxic fire fighting foam chemicals
- New tool for meth addiction
- New workers' compensation capacity certificate takes a positive approach
- Night and shift work hurts your sleep?
- Occupational Skin Disease
- OHS Disclosures in annual reports need improvement
- Older Australians more likely to seek treatment for alcohol use
- Pokemon Go Prompts construction site safety concerns
- POOR NUTRITIONAL CHOICES IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
- Possible link between electronic billboards and highway crashes
- Predicting Who Will Cause Workplace Safety Incidents
- Prepare an Emergency Kit
- Prepare an Emergency Plan
- Prepare for Evacuation
- Preventing Occupational Asthma
- Preventing serious hand injuries in mines
- Preventing suicides in the construction industry
- Procedures don’t address the actual risk
- Product Recall : Schneider Electric (Australia) Pty Limited—230DRAS1MI and 230DRAS2MI Meter Boxes.
- Product safety recalls - Bosch Australia, Orbital Sander PSS Series
- Proposed changes to Dangerous Goods Code open for public consultation
- Queensland to Establish New Workplace Death Law
- R U OK?
- Radio Apps for lone worker safety
- Recognising that low injury rates don’t equal low risk
- Reducing workplace fatigue through Effective Rostering
- Reminder to remain vigilant when returning to work
- Reminder: New Drug and Alcohol testing compliance for building sites
- Remote work impacting on mental health
- Repetitive strain injury: is it real or imagined?
- REQUIREMENTS FOR DANGEROUS CARCINOGENS IN QUEENSLAND WORKPLACES
- REQUIREMENTS FOR QUEENSLAND WORKPLACES HANDLING LEAD
- Resilience key to return to work ........ Comcare
- Respiratory protection against exposure to diesel particulate
- Review of Lead Regulation In Australia
- Revised model Work Health and Safety Regulations now available
- Revision of ISO 3100-2009 keeps Risk Management simple
- Risk controls are not followed
- Ross River Fever
- Safe Bunkering Standard Developed
- Safe driving tips when it is raining
- Safe Work Australia release Practical advice on managing risks
- Safe Work Australia’s 5 steps for safety in 2017
- Safe Work Procedures
- Safety Alert: Explosive conditions: grinding, cutting and welding (including pre-heating) from the inside or outside of confined spaces
- Safety Communication Book
- Safety to stay in step with traffic control industry growth
- Science breakthrough to combat oil spills
- Securing Executive support for safety
- Seven Tips to beat back-to-work blues
- Should companies vaccinate staff against influenza?
- Sleeping on job to be encouraged
- Slightly over height
- Slip and trips - are you compliant?
- Slips ,trips and falls
- Solvents & thinners - low risk chemicals or killers?
- Standards Update — national approach to fire protection maintenance
- Still killing people with mobile plant
- Study identifies strategies to address low workforce literacy and numeracy
- Swine flu returns as Australia suffers through severe flu season
- Synthetic marijuana and its implementation into workplace drug testing/screening
- Take a seat..... The deadly risk of your sedentary workplace.
- Take action now - dust exposure
- Take care of staff working in extreme heat
- Taking steps to improve crane safety
- Targeting the burnt out!
- The 2015 Influenza vaccine: clearing up the confusion
- The black art of risk change communication rears its head in a tunnel collapse?
- The changing face of work-related injuries
- The characteristics of people most likely to cut corners at work
- The importance of reviewing workers compensation claims
- The increased production and use of nanoparticles causes concern in OH&S
- The link between common health problems and workplace injury
- The right start - building safe work for young workers
- The right start - shaping a culture of safety for young workers
- The Scourge of Ice
- The unseen costs of skimping on hand protection
- The Zero Injury Witch Hunt.
- Things you probably never knew your mobile phone could do.
- Time To Stand Up – Hazards of Sedentary Work
- Tinnitus study shows age and gender matter
- Tips to help employees stay safe at work this summer
- To claim or not to claim:
- Toolbox: Drink driving fact sheet
- Towards Zero
- Tradie Safe program aims to improve construction safety
- Tunnelling
- Understanding Confined Spaces Code of Conduct
- Understanding the importance of safety cultures
- Update on International standard for safer workplaces
- Updated Guide for Family & Friends of Deceased Workers
- Use the manufacturers recommended batteries on emergency equipment?
- Warning: Stick to electrical work when installing solar photovoltaic panels
- Wash out your container
- Ways to Help Manage Fatigue in the Workplace
- We are too busy for safety
- We don’t match minimisation measure to the likelihood!
- We turn safety into a product or commodity
- We use industry practice a valid excuse for non-compliance.
- We wait for a fatality to know if workers comply with JSA’s.
- Weekend work on the car
- What are the 10 principles of good work and safety design?
- What are the Germans finding out about stress in their workplaces?
- What do you really understand about your highest WHS risks?
- What does the future of OHS look like?
- What Does the Law Say About Confined Spaces?
- What drives our WHS management behaviour?
- What happens when music equipment is set at levels that may damage our hearing ?
- What is a workplace warning ?
- What SHEQ skills do employers want?
- What sort of health surveillance should occur in our workplaces?
- WHAT THE WHS LEGISLATION SAYS ABOUT CARCINOGENS
- What WHS risks does the employer have a reasonably practical ability to control?
- What’s the answer to the stress epidemic?
- Where ASX companies fail on safety reporting
- Where companies go wrong with safety and culture
- Which managers & supervisors are at greatest risk of stress?
- Who is an employee and who is a contractor ?
- WHS considered in the purchase, inspection or maintenance of your hand tools?
- WHS laws independently audited in Queensland
- WHS right of entry provisions restored
- Why are young workers at higher risk of injury?
- Why boards need new measures for safety management
- WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO INEFFECTIVELY GUARD & ISOLATE DURING MAINTENANCE WORK?
- Why OHS leaders need greater financial literacy
- Why OHS needs to pay attention to biorhythms for safety
- Why we need a New Science of Safety
- Wild Weather Safety - Severe Thunderstorms
- Work exposure to Lead and lead compounds
- Work Health and Safety Perceptions: Construction Industry
- Work health in the construction Industry
- Work-related-injuries-experienced-young-workers-Australia-2009-10
- Worker Fatalities 2017
- Workers comp claims & possible lawsuits from supplying iPad style tablets to your workforce?
- Workers compensation claims on the decline, report shows
- Workers face Multiple Hazards
- Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
- Workers reluctant to give up chair for better health
- Workforce over weight- let’s get some exercise equipment or gym!
- Working Safely in Confined Spaces
- Workplace injuries progress into psychological disorders.
- Workplace safety through Design
- Workplace Vibration Guidance Material :
- Young Workers in Construction Injury Hotspots
- Your ageing workforce - are you helping them stay injury-free and healthy?
- Your traffic management system OK?
- Your workplace solvent exposure affecting your unborn children?
- Zero Harm : A slogan created for the CEO