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Workplace Safety and Safe Work Procedures on a Budget
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No safe work procedure operates in isolation. The demands of your business are complex and workplace safety is just one challenge amongst many. Certainly, workplace safety should be first among equals, but to lift it to a place of demi-god supremacy is absurd. Here at Occupational Safety Solutions, we recognise that fact. Today, we’ll look at WHS affordability, and we’ll candidly explain some factors worth considering before you make a purchase. It pays to know: What you want. What you don’t want. How you’ll know you have what you want. What price you’re willing to pay to attain it. What...

Is That Safe Work Method Statement Current?
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Leadership Adjustments That Improve Safe Work Practices
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In 2016, safe work practices would have saved a 16-year-old work-experience student from a traumatic construction site injury. Instead, that student suffered a broken neck and a life of ongoing pain and impairment. The accident stole life options and immeasurable pleasures from him. Three contractors, including the lead contractor, paid a combined $444,000 in fines - and then they got on with their lives. The boy was less fortunate. This tragedy was an easily preventable accident, and effective leadership could have seen it avoided. If you arrived here without taking in the rest of the series, this article is the...

Your Safety Management Plan and the Methods That Make it Work
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Mindsets are Key to Every Safe Operating Procedure
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