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Occupational Health & Safety Risk Management Services, Training & Recruitment. Safety Services Australia is an organisation who pride themselves on : Providing the right staff to your organisation Working with management to improve their profitability through tailored development of effective Occupational Health & Safety Risk Management practices. Safety Services Australia provide
Accredited to ISO9001:2008, Safety Services Australia has provided OHS Risk Management Systems Programs, training and personnel services to companies throughout Australia and New Zealand since 2000.
Why use Safety Services Australia?
Contact Safety Services Australia today on (02) 9836 3100 because our excellent service and experienced team make us the 'safe' choice for your organisation! Recent Articles
OHS Risk Management is a practical way of finding and fixing workplace health and safety problems before they cause damage to people, product or property and cost a business money and lost productivity.While most people will have heard about OHS risk management, many managers are still unsure how it relates i...
What would your employees say? 25% of employees don't believe their managers have a clear vision of where they're leading the company, with public workers having less faith in their senior managers than those who work for the private sector. Half of the surveyed employees stated that their line manager...
Salary, flexibility and perks not the key to retention A major new study on retention shows that the key driver for skilled employees to stay with a company is the perception that they are learning and progressing in their careers. The To Have and to Hold: Retaining and Utilising Skilled People study, by researchers fro...
Accident Study Raises Questions About Truck Monitoring The vast majority of fatigue-related truck accidents occur within the first five or six hours of a driver's journey, according to a new study by Australia's major truck insurer, National Transport Insurance. The chairman of the Australian Trucking Associat...
Plans for a national harmonised safety system COAG reveals early OHS harmonisation plans The Council of Australian Governments has revealed plans for the implementation of a nationally harmonised OHS system, with a model OHS Act draft to be released in March next year. The states would then enact mirror legislati...
Forget Gen Y, mature workers will drive future productivity If employers want to ensure their survival past 2012, they should forget about Generation Y and focus on attracting, retaining and maximising the productivity of mature-age workers, according to new research from global HR consultancy Mercer.Mercer's new detailed...
Implementing Safety Systems “A key component of any safety system is to ensure that procedures are being followed at all times” It has been revealed in the NSW Industrial Court that a company’s failure to enforce a safe system of work at a Sydney worksite led to a breakdown in safety pr...
Occupational Health and Safety Amendment (Major Hazard Facilities) Regulation 2008. WorkCover NSW has published the major hazards facilities regulation in the NSW Government Gazette on 4 July 2008. The regulation will commence on 14 July 2008. The effect of the regulation is to add a new chapter (Chapter 6B) ...
An Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSM) is a framework of processes and procedures used to control occupational health and safety risks as well as improve performance by means of continuous improvement.Your current management system may be an informal system of registers, diaries, instructions...
Vibration Exposure Management Workers can be exposed to harmful vibration levels during the operation of power tools, machinery, vehicles and from other workplace sources. Exposure to whole-body vibration is associated with back pain while hand-arm vibration can affect circulation and joints. The curr...
Injury management is the term used which covers all the activities used by any business when an accident occurs that injures a worker. This process includes: Treatment, which includes first aid, notification process, accident investigation etc Rehabilitatio...
Occupational health and safety roles continue to feature in the ‘sought after’ and highly rewarded jobs this year. OHS roles: Who, what, why, when, where and how does one know what to look for when employing people in the OHS role? Occupational h...
Many jobs require working in a hot environment, both indoors and outdoors. Workers in such environments can experience heat related illnesses resulting from heat stress. These illnesses can range from heat rashes, heat exhaustion and finally heat stroke if the worker and the work environment are not monitored and controlled ...
Advantages of Training in Occupational Health and SafetyManaging workplace health and safety can best be achieved through the implementation of appropriate systems in a business. Whether these systems are complex or simple, one fact remains the same: OHS Training is an essential and necessary requirementOHS legislation require...
Risk Management in Occupational Health and SafetyRisk management, or the process of seeking out and minimising or eliminating risks is beneficial to businesses for many reasons: Minimising injury and disease Reducing financial loss, including Workers Compensation premiums ...
Safety Services Australia gets a Big Tick on ComplianceISO9001-2000ISO Accreditation - What does it mean?Compliance is one of the biggest issues confronting businesses today. There is a growing awareness and expectation in the community that everyone deserves a safe workplace, a safe environment, and a quality product which w...
New National Standard for Manual TasksThe Australian Government and Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) has released a new National Standard for Manual Tasks (August 2007). This Standard replaces the National Standard for Manual Handling [NOHSC:1001(1990)] and has been declared under the Commonwealth Australian ...
Does your company need to employ a person in the field of Human Resource Occupational Health & Safety and /or Health Safety & Environment Injury Management and / or Return to Work CoordinatorMedium to large companies need quality people in these roles regardless of the type of busin...
Are you a medium to large company in any industry that has received notification of an unexpected increase in Workers Compensation Premium ? Are wondering if there help to reduce the cost of these premiums and /or claims?For Your KnowledgeAn employer's premium is calculated twice during the period of the insurance policy. ...
Has a WorkCover Inspector advised you there a problem (possibly relating to machine guarding, manual handling, chemicals or noise on site) has been identified?Maybe the Inspector is following up an accident or incident!If the time or expertise needed to rectify the situation is not available, there is help available from Safety ...
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