Simple Safety Update - Issue 12 December 2010

Welcome to issue 12 of your Simple Safety Update. December is a great time to reflect and plan for the New Year and make improvements to safety in your workplace. Simple OHS Solutions qualified consultants can assist you with this process. Call 1300 OHS 846.

It has been a big year at SOS and we look forward to continuing to work with you and your staff into 2011. On behalf of all the staff at Simple OHS Solution we hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year. Oh and we thought we would leave you with a little giggle for the last simple safety stuff up for the year.

Changes to Legislation are you ready

Changes to Officers and Directors Safety duties are coming. CEO’s, directors and Board Members must be able to demonstrate what action they have taken to understand and manage safety in their company or face tough penalties. Be prepared call Simple OHS Solutions 1300 OHS 846.

Your Simple Safety Schedule

Let SOS guide you through the steps you need to manage workplace health and safety and meet legislative obligations in the Simple Safety Schedule.

So far in your schedule you have;

1. Developed and OHS Policy
2. Developed a plan for managing safety including allocating responsibilities and budget
3. Developed specific OHS roles and responsibilities which allocate tasks to all levels across your workplace for safety
4. Identified what skills you need in your organisation to manage safety and thought about what training people need
5. Established ways of consulting and communicating with workers about safety to get their ideas and input
6. Established ways to identify hazards such as developing hazard inspection checklists
7. Identified risk control using the hierarchy of control
8. Developed Safe Work Instructions
9. Developed a Safety Induction
10. Incident Reporting
11. OHS Reporting

Step 12 – Reviewing 

Reviewing is an essential part of keeping your OHS Safety Schedule up to date. It is vital that we review our OHS management system regularly to;

1. Make sure it is still relevant to the work we do and the circumstances we are working under
2. Make sure it being implemented
3. Make sure it is still effective in controlling our risk
4. Keep people informed about how the system is working and if any changes are needed.

To Do:

1. What are you going to review?
   1. Procedures and processes
   2. Implementation and compliance
2. How often do you need to conduct reviews?
   1. Scheduled time frames
   2. After an incident
   3. When processes or information about processes change
3. What is going to happen to the information from the review?
   1. Use the information to plan continuous improvements
4. Who needs to know about the review, its results and be involved?
   1. Employees
   2. Management
   3. Contractors
   4. Visitors

Simple Safety Stuff Ups

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OHS Events

Safety In Action 2011 Melbourne

Date: Tue 5 Apr 2011- Thu 7 Apr 2011
Location: Melbourne Convention Centre

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