Tap into Safety

Much has been written about workplace safety climate and the impact on employee safety. This podcast discusses job stress and hazard recognition in terms of your organisation's safety climate. Job stress negatively impacts safety performance, hazard recognition and safety risk perception levels. The level of safety climate in an organisation directly correlates with their ability to recognise hazards and the importance they assign to them in terms of safety risk. 

Employees who perceive greater job stress and where the safety climate is low are more likely to engage in deviant work behaviour that violates significant organisational norms and in so doing threatens the well-being of the company and its employees. 

Safely working at height is critical to keep your employees from falling to the ground, the level below or into holes such as trenches and service pits. Ideally, we should complete work at ground level, but in many instances, that is not possible.

Because so much of the work we do requires employees to work at height, organisations must put in safety measures and train in safe practices.

For this podcast, we bring together three articles that we have written about the topic to discuss safely working at height means and the measures you can take to keep your people safe. We discuss the latest statistics, eliminating work at heights at the design stage to perform the work on the ground, platforms, guarding, safe ladder use, personal fall protection equipment, and maintaining 3 points of contact. We finish with 8 working at height safety myths to challenge your thinking.

The words "safety audit" often have managers and employees cringing. Although the task may be daunting, the main benefit of regularly conducting audits is that they assist in the continuous improvement of the organisation’s health and safety procedures.

For this podcast, we provide the underpinning questions behind any safety audit, what you need to do to prepare, and how to select an unbiased, balanced team. We help you to determine the scope of the safety audit and list a series of questions your team should ask during the safety audit. We discuss how to collate your safety audit data, understand the information, document improvements and create positive change.

In this podcast, we investigate the signs of declining mental health for stress, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, psychosis and substance misuse. We recommend some actions managers and supervisors can take to help their employees who may be struggling. 

A critical process in managing risk in your workplace is writing a Job Safety Analysis. What to include and how much information you need when writing a Job Safety Analysis remains a question. In this podcast, we provide a six-step process for writing a Job Safety Analysis to guide you when managing high-risk tasks.

All organisations have a duty to onboard new employees, but many fail to deliver an engaging safety induction. New employees need to understand the risks and hazards associated with working in their role in your organisation. This podcast provides some handy tips to help you to develop and deliver an engaging safety induction to not only meet your compliance requirements but also to help to reinforce safe behaviour.

We discuss the ruling of the Brisbane Auto Recycling Industrial Manslaughter Case and what it means for organisations in terms of prosecution and fines for workplace fatalities. We offer 8 tips to help you to protect your organisation in light of the Industrial Manslaughter Laws.