Chapter 6: Hazard Management – Assessment
Hazard Management – Assessment This process of determining whether a hazard is significant and developing controls is called Hazard Assessment, and it should be carried out separately for a number of reasons. By the end of this chapter we will need to: • Transfer all...
Chapter 5: Hazard Management – Identification
Hazard Management - Identification The next 3 chapters (Hazard ID or identification, Hazard Assessment and Hazard Controls) form the core of your H&S system because these processes will identify what things could hurt your employees or damage your equipment and...
Chapter 4: Return to Work
Return to Work Research findings suggest that an injury may cost you between 8% and 15% of your payroll, therefore you and your employees will benefit if you can quickly help injured employees back to work. Action Steps: This chapter will help you write a return to...
Chapter 3: Reporting and Investigation
Reporting and Investigation In this chapter we are going to cover why you need to report, how to report and finally why and how to carry out an investigation. Action Steps we cover allow you to: Step 1. Develop a flow chart to guide your reporting and investigation...
Chapter 2: Emergency Planning and Readiness
Emergency Planning and Readiness You must have an emergency plan in place to manage all types of emergencies likely to happen in your workplace. After this chapter the action steps are to: 1. Identify potential and relevant emergencies -- so we can focus on possible...
Chapter 1: Commitment
Safety Policy and Commitment The area of commitment or leaderships is one of the most important areas to get right and can make the difference between passing an audit but having a safety manual sitting on the shelf OR passing an audit AND actually making the...
Safety Systems:Lessons From An HR Manager
Health and Safety from an HR Manager Audio Podcast available at the bottom of this post or on itunes. Often Health and Safety is given to an HR Manager to 'get sorted' and just get on with the task. Tony Collins discusses with Linda Nelson Caie lessons of an HR...
The 3 Reasons Not To Follow Safety Rules
The 3 Reasons Not To Follow Safety RulesThere are 3 times when we are less likely to follow safety rules. These are: 1. When we see other people break the rules and getting away with it. (Monkey see, Monkey do.)2. When our managers hold employees …
Improving Safety In Your Workplace
Improving Safety In Your WorkplaceI wrote earlier about reward bonuses as a means for improving and motivating leadership in safety. Leadership is often used as the example on how to improve safety – because it is. Without the support of the boss,…