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.
You can’t manage want you don’t measure.
We have heard it many times before. But is your workplace running the numbers. Do they know what the critical numbers are, what the trends are, are they using the numbers to improve H&S in the workplace. Figures released in Singapore by Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Statistics Report 2011 issued by the WSH Council and the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) track that there has been an 11% increase in workplace fataliaties from 2010 compared to this 2011. This has been an increase of 6 extra workers deaths.
The majority of these deaths came from slip, trips and falls from height. 22 % of these incidents was born by the Construction industry.
As a result of this and other injuries there was an increase of 6% in lost time injuries, which if you are managing a business it will be straghtforward to equate what this LTI means to your bottom line. Therefore it is easy to demonstrate to the approving authorities what a small investment in the right personal protective and safety equipment could save in terms of LTI.
So the way I see it, improving safety is a straightforward simple process:-
1. Figure out what your KPI’s are for your company. Number of Days since last accident, LTI’s this month, Near misses this month, Number of incidents in a category falls, hand injuries, eye injuries, No of safety breach notices. I understand collecting data is not easy, however having a system/process in place to capture data makes the practice a whole lot easier.
2. Do a monthly review of data by graphing the results and determine focus of improvement for the following month.
3. Implement monthly initiatives to keep the focus on safety moving on different elements of your business. It will keep safety foremost in peoples mind and it is continual improvment in developing safe work practices. Would a lead hook or lead stand eliminate 20% of your trip hazards and what is this worth to your organisation?
Time flies when you are having fun. We are at that time again to clear out the warehouse before the EOFY stocktake.
Therefore our complete range of Justrite Dangerous Goods Storage Cabinets have been further discounted.
Discounts include our range of Flammable, Corrosive, Pesticide, Oxidising Agents and Toxic storage cabinets.
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Click here for the flyer to give to your boss :-
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BIG Safety is offering free Hard Hat printing set up for a two colour print when you get 20 printed hard hats.
That is a saving of up to $160. Printed Hard Hats have never been more affordable.
Therefore you could have your own branded hard hats from $14.25 inc GST per hardhat (1 colour print). $14.90 inc GST for a two colour logo.
You will never have to pay a repeat setup charge for future print jobs.
So get in quick and toughen up your corporate image with printed hard hats for the price of a Hard Hat.
Check out how our Pad Printed Hardhats are completed with this quick vid on youtube.
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Here is our glossy brochure for your bosses desk when you tell him to Toughen up…… his corporate image.http://www.bigsafety.com.au/files/printedhardhatpromo.pdf
Additional colours in your logo are charged at $65 a colour setup fee.
Freight to NSW clients is $9.90 or $16.50 for the rest of Australia.
Free two colour setup offer is only valid for orders placed before 30 Jun 2012
Time flies when you are having fun. We are at that time again to clear out the warehouse before the EOFY stocktake.
Therefore our complete range of Speakman Safety Showers, face & eye wash units are discounted.
Click here to check out the savings:-
http://www.bigsafety.com.au/category8_1.htm
Click here for the flyer to give to your boss :-
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.
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.
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Our complete range of Speakman Safety Showers, face & eye wash units discounted.
Click here to check out the savings:-
http://www.bigsafety.com.au/category8_1.htm
Click here for the flyer to give to your boss :-
With the news spreading the world about the threat of “Swine Flu” I just wanted to clarify the most apropriate masks and include a quick Question and Answer video to assist people in understanding the risks, protection measures sites to check for up dated information.
The US CDC (Centre for Disease Control) recommends N95 NIOSH approved masks to prevent the spread of SWINE FLU. N95 is a US standard for disposable face masks. The equivalent disposable face mask in Australia is the P2.
The link below talks about the resonable steps that you can take to protect yourself as well as a Question and Answer summary from the Centre for Disease control websitehttp://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25391554-401,00.html
N95/P2 protective face masks can be purchased at http://www.bigsafety.com.au/category13_1.htm
A challenge for any person responsible for the occupational health and safety within their workplace is not only ensuring that they are up-to-date with the relevant OH&S obligations, but ensuring compliance of those regulations from staff within your workplace. An example is the wearing of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for that particular site. This not only includes staff members, employees or contractors but also suppliers and visitors to the site that could be potentially exposed to risk. An effective safety awareness culture needs to be developed within the organisation via an effective OH&S program.
The depth and magnitude of any OH&S program to be implemented within your workplace will depend upon several factors including the size of your organisation, the resources available for developing and implementing such a program into your workplace and the level of risk that is present within your workplace (determined by conducting a risk assessment).
Within smaller organisations, formalizing the OH&S program might not be necessary and could effectively be done via informal discussions between the members of the team. Within larger organisations, a formal OH&S committee or representative might be required to develop and implement a program for the workplace. The legal requirements for organisations and individuals are set out quite clearly under OH&S legislation and will depend on your state or territory.
Four key areas that an organisation should focus on, in developing a safety culture by encouraging and promoting safety within their workplace are:
• Leadership
- Establishing clear directions to every member of your workforce;
- Promoting a culture geared around safety awareness;
- Reinforcing ownership of safety with all members of your workforce;
- Identifying and rewarding successes;
- Enforcement and proper supervision of safety protocols at all levels within the organisation.
- Ensuring that up-to-date training manuals, safety protocols/guidelines and appropriate, well maintained personal protective equipment is made available for use by members of your workforce
• Communication
- Providing adequate, relevant and timely safety information to all levels within the organisation;
- Focusing the message of safety down the chain of management;
- Publishing common safety lessons learnt or safety breaches that have occurred;
- Ensuring that the safety awareness message is displayed adequately throughout the workplace and is site specific;
- Providing an avenue for members of your organisation to provide feedback or have input into the types of personal protective equipment used/provided and their pro’s and con’s.
• Training
- Instilling an effective culture of safety awareness by providing adequate training or access to different training options of the safety rights and responsibilities of both the organisation as a whole and for individuals within the organisation;
- Providing adequate training on the use of personal protective equipment;
- Highlighting the benefits of using PPE to prevent workplace and to demonstrate the detriments of not utilising PPE
• Accountability
- All levels of management within the organisation should be held accountable for safety compliance on both an organisational basis and an individual basis;
- Promote and enforce existing standards and institute or expand incentive or reward programs;
Ensuring that these four key areas are present within your workplace will go a long way to ensuring the success of any OH&S program and enhancing the levels of safety within your workplace. However, as with any system or program, safety related or not, its success is dependant on the active and cooperative participation of all parties concerned.
This article is intended to be a general introduction to creation of a OH&S management plan, however a OH&S Industry professional should be consulted to develop the ideal plan to suit your worksites requirements. Information sourced from the Naval Safety Center website found at http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/default.htm
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