19th October 2011
If you want to effectively manage workplace compliance, you need to manage your contractors compliance. No matter how robust, comprehensive or proven your OHS management systems may be, if you have a non-compliant, or poorly trained, contractor onsite, it...
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23rd August 2011
The ability to prove your OHS management processes around induction training is essential to showing your ability to meeting workplace compliance. You may have top-notch training methods and courses in place, but unless you can demonstrate their effective...
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17th May 2011
It's hardly worth mentioning that induction training is usually considered as an important part of a company's overall workplace safety management process. Unfortunately, most companies have an induction training system that has been inefficient for so lo...
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20th April 2011
Every contractor that comes onto your site will have their own personal values regarding safety. The potential risks this places on their own personal safety as well as that of others in your organisation can be enormous. It is up to you, not the contract...
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21st March 2011
Implementing a new induction programme should provide you with more than just a panacea for an inefficient process. As Safety and Health professionals, we need to be looking for systems that actively drive improvements to workplace safety, not just proces...
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25th February 2011
Imagine this...
Two newly hired warehouse workers arrive on their first day – a materials handler and a forklift operator. They’re experienced, keen and rearing to go. More to the point, they are desperately needed – things in the warehouse have been get...
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08th February 2011
Do you give your induction programme the same attention that you give your training programmes? Bet you don't! Chances are you haven't updated your induction programme for months, (years?) but your training is continually being improved. Don't worry, you'...
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