There are countless How To’s and Templates for pre-start meetings on the internet. But at the end of the day, none of them may be relevant to your business. It may seem like they do they job well, but with no way to measure, analyze and improve you cannot be certain. Everyone has their own way of doing pre-starts and no way is right or wrong.
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The term safety culture can be traced back to the 1986 nuclear explosion at Chernobyl. Today, we define safety culture around the shared systems of beliefs, values and attitudes in the workplace. The way organisations manage people is also evolving. Causing a move away from the traditional applications of safety culture to keep up with the new theories in management.
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The construction industry in Australia is worth over $360 Billion and accounts for around 9% of Australia’s GDP. In 2021, there were 1,160,700 people employed in the industry and projections indicate that figure will reach 1,263,900 by 2025. Over the next five years, the construction industry is projected to grow by 2.4%. The majority of construction businesses are sole traders or very small businesses with less than 20 employees (National Industry Insights).
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SafeWorkPro is used by businesses of all types and sizes. From electrical contractors, construction businesses, manufacturing plants and even industry organisations like NECA Vic. Our customers vary in many aspects, but they all share something in common. They are all interested in making safety simple.
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Safety software is a relatively new solution to an old problem. Have you ever thought to yourself, there has got to be a better way to stay complaint with safety regulations? Do you ever get frustrated that you have to fill out so many assessments and statements on paper. Do you find yourself missing things in your assessments because you are worried that it’s not in the right format?
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A Work Health and Safety (WHS) incident can happen to anyone, anywhere, regardless of your company’s size, industry, or location. No matter what area of work you and your workers are engaged in, there is always the risk of an event or series of events that could cause injury, illness, death, and loss of your company’s assets and reputation. And this risk only increases with high-risk heavy industries like mining, construction, and oil and gas.
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Safety management systems have come a long way in the last 250 years. Just think back to workplace conditions during the Industrial Revolution – almost no pay, child labour, very long hours, and extremely dangerous work conditions with exposure to chemicals, accident-prone machinery, and no WHS requirements whatsoever.
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There is endless content out there to explain the “What” questions when it comes to SWMS, but not many address the “How”. In this article, we will introduce you to why the process you follow is important and how using a paper-based safety management system is a risky choice for workplace safety.
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Did you know that in just the year 2020, 194 Australians were killed while working? And another 120 000 were seriously injured? These numbers alone demonstrate just how important workplace health and safety really is. That’s why it’s so incredibly important that you make health and safety the top priority at your workplace today. And the best way to do so is by making sure that your business has a solid safety management system in place.
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A safety management system is crucial to putting your work health and safety plans, policies and procedures into practice on a day-to-day basis. Further, it serves as the main tool for preventing safety incidents in the future using data collected from your work activities day to day.
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