Want a great safety culture? Four Steps for Success.
STEP ONE: Understand the importance leadership commitment One of the hallmarks of great organisations is a great safety culture. And a great safety culture is only ever [...]
5 Reasons You Should Review Your Safety Culture
The fact that you have taken the time to read this, probably means that you have concerns about the safety culture in your organisation. Our team at [...]
Creating an effective Safety Assurance Strategy
Creating an effective Safety Assurance Strategy A research paper developed by the team at BWC Safety November 2021 Introduction Many medium and larger-sized organisations will develop their WHS [...]
Lessons from the Dreamworld Tragedy
In October 2016 four park guests were killed when their raft capsized on the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Queensland’s Dreamworld Park. Ardent Leisure was subsequently charged with three offences under section 32 of the Queensland Work Health and Safety Act. They pleaded guilty to all charges and were fined $3.6 million.
2020 NTARC Report into Heavy Vehicle Incidents in Australia
2020 NTARC Report into Major Accidents involving Heavy Vehicles in Australia The 2020 NTARC report into heavy vehicle accidents in Australia has just been published by the [...]
SAFETY LEADERSHIP
Having the Right Philosophy The main ingredient for advancing safety culture within an organisation is committed, competent and highly visible leadership. This ‘ideal’ safety leader, regardless of their [...]
OSHA’s TOP 10 safety violations for 2018
Hot off the presses from the United States, Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, presented the list of the top 10 safety violations for [...]
Fatal Risks in Construction
Trends in Fatalities Every year in Australia, approximately 30 people are killed in the construction industry and according to SafeWork Australia, there are an astounding 12,500 serious [...]
Improve our incident investigations
Is the quality of your incident investigations poor? Do you fail to learn valuable lessons from investigations? Do you regularly see “operator take more care” as the root [...]
WHS regulations pertaining to emergency planning
Background Intuitively you would expect that most large organisations have well developed emergency plans with frequent trial runs to test effectiveness. However, our experience with a number of [...]
Demonstrating visible leadership commitment
Background Leadership commitment is the core component of an effective safety management system. This commitment must exist at the executive level and cascade to all levels of the [...]
Guidelines for effective risk management
Risk management is the cornerstone of the WHS Act and Regulations 2011. As the PCBU, an organisation is required to: eliminate risks to health and safety so far [...]
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