SBWS will help you by providing with accurate and practical work health and safety (WHS) advice – and training. This will help you to keep your business up-to-date with the latest safety developments, including:
- Work Health and Safety Policies and procedures to suit the size and complexity of your business;
- Consultation – with workers, as well as any others that may have a similar duty;
- Workplace investigations for simple risks and hazards, right through to harassment and bullying – a serious risk to be managed by all employers, large or small;
- Incident reporting and investigations;. and
- WHS training packages for you as Managers and for your workers.
As a SME business operator, you may well be an ‘Officer’ under the Work, Health & Safety Act 2012. Do you know how significantly your work, health and safety (WHS) duties increased in 2013? And are you aware of the changes for employers that will come with the new Return to Work Legislation Act from 1 July 2015?
Case Study – Forklifts in the workplace?
Since 2010 forklift operations have been classified as “high risk work”. That means that the old ‘forklift tickets’ are no longer sufficient for your operators and they now need a ‘Licence to Perform High Risk Work’ (unless they have valid certificates that were issued before 1 September 2010).
Court prosecutions indicate that forklifts are over represented in workplace accidents. And when a forklift incident does occur, the results are often very serious. Even at low speeds, forklifts can cause serious injuries and fatalities. And it’s not just the worker using the forklift who can be injured; other workers, pedestrians or even bystanders can be struck by a forklift, or its load.
Don’t wait until you have an injury or death at your workplace before developing a safe system of work to control those risks. Robust Traffic Management processes are essential where forklifts interact with people.
So … how are your Traffic Management procedures looking? Any near misses of late? Can you continue not to do something?? How long for??