3 steps to safety
Assessing workplace safety practices is an important way for identifying both your strengths and weaknesses when managing safety. LGIS has delivered a program for many years to assist our members to do this. Early in 2015, LGIS undertook a review and has now developed the 3 Steps to Safety program to succeed and further enhance our occupational, safety and health program.
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Health surveillance - it’s more than just a doctor’s visit
If your workers use or are exposed to certain types of hazardous substances, they may require health surveillance to ensure their health is not adversely effected.
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Working in isolation – do you know where your workers are?
It is Wednesday afternoon and a local government worker is not back yet from performing a work task within a remote area. The worker’s supervisor has not spoken to the worker since he left the workplace at 9.00am and has been unable to make contact via mobile or two-way radio. To send someone out to the worker’s anticipated location will take 90 minutes one-way and would mean traveling at dusk where wildlife can pose a hazard to road users.
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