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SOS is proud to work in conjunction with the highly respected law firm Piper Alderman. All SOS clients have access to specialised OHS legal advice ensuring the efficient delivery of both OHS technical and legal services.
Simple Safety Update - Issue 9 September 2010
OHS News - SOS Expands
SOS is very proud to announce we have two new staff members who are here to help you get your safety under control.
Rachelle Bullock is our fabulous new administration manager. Rachelle will help us stay organised so we can help you manage your safety even more simply.
Warren Kennedy is our newest consultant. He has 30 years OHS experience in very spanerse industries including agriculture, water management, health services and training. Warren has a wealth of knowledge and is a very welcome addition to our team. Read Warren’s full bio.
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;
- Developed and OHS Policy
- Developed a plan for managing safety including allocating responsibilities and budget
- Developed specific OHS roles and responsibilities which allocate tasks to all levels across your workplace for safety
- Identified what skills you need in your organisation to manage safety and thought about what training people need
- Established ways of consulting and communicating with workers about safety to get their ideas and input
- Established ways to identify hazards such as developing hazard inspection checklists
- Identified risk control using the hierarchy of control
- Developed Safe Work Instructions
Step 9 – Safety Induction
An important part of consistently controlling risks is to ensure that people understand how to do work safely. An important part of this is to have clear instructions. These might include safe work method statements (SWMS) or safe operating procedures (SOP).
Whilst we don’t want to teach people how to suck eggs it is important that high risk tasks have clear documented instructions which anyone can follow and create consistency in how we control risk. For example forklifts must not be operated without a seatbelt or there must be a 3 metre pedestrian exclusion zone around forklifts.
- Identify who needs to be inducted e.g. workers, contractors, visitors
- Work out what information they need to be inducted in to keep them safe including.
- OHS Policy
- Reporting and managing incidents
- Emergency response
- Site safety rules
- Safe work instructions
- Consultation
- Make sure you keep records of inductions
Completing an inductions is important evidence that you have provided information to people about safety in the event of an incident- get the right advice – Simple OHS Solutions can help - contact us anytime.
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Successful Prosecution for Reckless Endangerment - Orbit Director Martin Smith Fined $120,000 Company Fined $750,000
Sue Bottrell
Lawyer – Piper Alderman
On 10 April 2010 County Court, Judge Felicity Hampel handed down judgement in a prosecution by WorkSafe Victoria of Orbit Drilling and its Managing Director Martin Smith under section 32 of the OHS Act (Vic) 2004 for recklessly endangering a person at work, after both pleaded guilty to recklessly endangering the health and safety of employee, 21 year old Bradley Alford.
After only 11 hours of training Alford obtained his heavy riggers drivers licence. A week later he was employed by Orbit Drilling and commenced working on a mining site in Victoria. On 9 December 2006 Alford was instructed to drive a heavily loaded truck down a steep slope, with no road, and reverse onto a drilling pad.
OHS Events
Piper Alderman invites you to a two part presentation looking at key areas in safety management and law
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Time: 5pm for a 5.15pm start - 6.30pm
Location: Piper Alderman
Level 24, 385 Bourke Street Melbourne, VIC 3000
NSW 2010 Safety Conference & Trade Show "A Safe Odyssey" Dates: 26 Oct 2010 - 28 Oct 2010
Location: Sydney Showground, Sydney Olympic Park
Visions 2010 Conference Dates: 6 Oct 2010 - 8 Oct 2010
Location: Gold Coast International Hotel - Surfers Paradise, Australia
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