Welcome to our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. This is where we will include the answers to some of the most common questions asked from our 10 years experience in Making Safety Easy.
I hope you find the information useful, or feel free to ask for more information if one of our answers does not answer your question.
There is a lot of confusion around the life span of hard hats, or when a hard hat needs to be replaced. Hopefully this excerpt below from Standards Australia will help clarify the requirements for you.
Hard hats do not have an expiry date at the point of manufacture. AS1800:1998 states:-
At the time of issue to the wearer, the helmet should be marked with the issue date.
Field tests have shown that generally , helmet shells have a life of at least 3 years from the time of issue. Components of harnesses may deteriorate more rapidly in service and harnesses should, therefore, be replaced at intervals not longer than 2 years.
For helmets that are used infrequently and stored away from sunlight, dirt and temperature extremes, this guideline/recommendation may not be applicable. The user should examine the helmet regularly and discard if any damage is evident.
Extract of Australian Standard AS1800:1998
On behalf of the team at BIG Safety we wish all of our clients and guests the very best for this Christmas season.
BIG Safety customer service will be closed from the 23 Dec – 8 Jan 2012.
Orders can still be placed online, by fax or email during this time and they will be processed commencing Monday 9 Jan 2012.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
If you are looking to toughen up your corporate image or look professional on the worksite then Hard Hats with your company logo could be for you. BIG Safety can print up to five colour logos on all four sides of the hard hat.
Here is a quick video to show how the Pad printing is completed.
If you see something at work that is not quite safe then report it or help the person to understand there may be a safer way. Enjoy.
Hello, Earthlings. Everyone knows I am Safety S.A.L.
(Safety Aware Lifeform) from the planet Camino.
First Aid Tailor Made in Dural is, like, so privileged to have me as its exclusive P.P.E. supermodel.
I, like, don’t get out of bed unless I’m wearing my 100% cotton hard hat brim from Big Safety because, like me, it’s soooo cool.
Has anyone seen my, like, P.A.?
Hi, my name’s
N.O.R.M. (Nearly “Or”thentic Rescue Mannequin).
I’m a Training Assistant at First Aid Tailor Made in Dural.
Too easy.
But students keep hugging me, so I keep my Big Safety coveralls on to protect me from girl germs.
All good.
Hendra virus is a public health concern and can create substantial workplace health and safety issues. It requires careful management.
There are several steps you should take while you are waiting for veterinary confirmation of Hendra virus:
Ask your veterinarian for help with putting on, taking off and safe disposal of PPE. Ensure P2 masks are fitted correctly to reduce your risk of infection.
The above information has been taken from Department of Primary Industries Website :- http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/animal-diseases/horses/hendra-virus . The links have been added to enable customers to view the products on the BIG Safety website.
In September 1994, a prominent Queensland horse trainer Mr Vic Rail, his stablehand, and most of his horses fell ill to a sudden and mysterious illness.
Within several days, the trainer and 14 horses were dead.
As the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI) collected specimens from affected race horses and submitted them for testing at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, Victoria, newspapers ran with headlines like ‘Death virus cancels races, threatens Cup’.
AAHL’s diagnostic team isolated and identified what proved to be a new virus that had not been reported anywhere else in the world.
Researchers initially named it equine morbillivirus, however, further genetic analysis showed that the most appropriate classification of the virus was as a new genus within the Paramyxoviridae family.
The name Hendra is now used, after the name of the Brisbane suburb in which the outbreak occurred.
The strength of AAHL’s capabilities was clearly demonstrated by the manner in which the infectious agent was isolated, the disease reproduced in horses and the virus eventually identified using electron microscopy and gene sequence analysis.
With the cause of the disease outbreak known, AAHL researchers developed diagnostic tests.
QDPI, Queensland Health and AAHL tested more than 2 500 horse samples and 150 human samples, not finding any new cases.
In the last 17 years, seven people have been confirmed to have been infected with Hendra virus, four of whom have died as a result of the disease.
In addition to the initial case in 1994, a farmer from Mackay died in 1995 and two Queensland vets passed away in separate incidents in 2008 and 2009.
There have also been 14 clusters of Hendra virus infection recorded in horses since the virus was first identified.
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