A chain is just as strong as its weakest link. In the same method, your safety system is only as strong as your weakest Work Health and Safety treatment. We've composed this article to enable you perform an efficient review of your WHS procedures, see where you're weak, and enhance what you can. We specified 5 arenas of safety treatment where you need to be strong - and where weakness can devastate. We hope you're empowered and influenced.
We identified these five arenas by walking through the Occupational Safety Solutions (OSS) blog given that July 2016. Since this post discuss 20 different articles, it's also a fantastic method to get a summary of near 4 years of resources. Then you can check out the ones that pertain to you.
The five arenas we will highlight are:
1. Mindsets.
2. Methods.
3. Leadership.
4. Currency.
5. Affordability.
We profile each arena, to motivate you, help you focus and empower options.
WHS PROCEDURE ARENA 1|MINDSETS.
It's quite easy to feel like work health and safety procedures slow things down, entangle production, and decrease earnings. These are reasonable understandings, however they're likewise wrong - if you're executing WHS well.
There are 3 vital mindsets that we'll pay attention to:.
1. A quality-focused mindset,.
2. A competitive mindset, and.
3. An earnings mindset.
We presented the quality mindset in April 2017. We did a six-part expose on style methods and quality assurance procedures. We gave you a look behind the curtain, so you could see what we do. We also sought to empower you with ideas that you might carry out in your own operations..
Yes, we wanted you to value the specialised work we do, however we were also casting a light on WHS procedures, processes and resources that support and instil quality. The pertinent short articles (of that six-part series) can be accessed on our blog.
The next arena was a competitive frame of mind since while quality assurance is useful, you also require to win tenders. This extremely competitive process can promote corner-cutting, even with workplace health and safety.
Loose Work Health and Safety procedures don't help you develop momentum in tendering success. This is why in July 2018, we resolved a variety of Work Health and Safety resources and the function they play in winning tenders.
Completing this arena with a profit state of mind, we released "Safety Procedures Aid Your People and Your Profit" in December 2019.
We addressed a variety of workplace safety and culture concerns that affect profitability - including the mistaken mindset that WHS procedures are an obstacle to earnings.
If any of these 'mindsets' stretch your point of view, the appropriate article might be worth a read (and as constantly, if you think we're mistaken, let us know).
WHS PROCEDURE ARENA 2|METHODS.
Taking an intentional appearance at your methods is the next sensible step once you've addressed problem mindsets. To do this, we propose you:
1. Figure out how things really should be.
2. Develop a strategy to tighten things up, and.
3. Put that plan into action.
Identifying how things should really be isn't basic. Workplace health and safety needs are formed by the specifics of your business and project( s), and pulling together all the necessary aspects can feel like putting together 101 products of different IKEA furnishings - at the same time and without guidelines.
To help with this, we published 2 posts resolving this issue. In April 2017, we showed you how to assemble your Work Health and Safety safety resource manual, and we evaluated the effectiveness of some other Work Health and Safety procedural resources. In August 2019, we cleared up a typical area of confusion, discussing the difference in between a WHS Management System (WHSMS) and a WHS Management Plan (WHSMP).
To this end, our July 2016 short article need to show handy. Using the example of our WHSMP design template, we discussed (in quick) how 4 important aspects affect the 100 plus pages and 14 various focus areas covered.
The four Work Health and Safety 'vitals' were:.
1. Faultlessness in your terminology,
2. Obligation,
3. The expanse of coverage,
4. And Customisations.
Work Health and Safety PROCEDURE ARENA 3|LEADERSHIP.
It's time to lead as soon as you have your strategy. Individuals require to be led and supervised. The good news is, leaders are made, not born, so we consist of leadership tactics, strategies and concepts in our writing, our resource production, and our assessments..
In "How to Lead a 2020 WHS Procedures and policies Revival" we analysed the role of leadership. We proposed 5 attainable and effective techniques and attended to 8 domains of workplace leadership. If you 'd like to research those specifics, the Part One and Part Two articles can be viewed by following the links.
No discussion of leadership would be total without resolving the concerns of hassle, defiance and absentmindedness. These 3 elements are typically at play when a Work Health and Safety procedure is not followed. This is why, in the second half of 2018, we dealt with Safety-minder software application to bring you a digital phone-based WHS platform - producing convenience, sending out pointers, removing excuses, and as a perk, lowering everybody's administrative burdens.
WHS PROCEDURE ARENA 4|CURRENCY.
Staying up to date with the Work Health and Safety legislation and regulations can be difficult. The amount of change is not that excellent, but when change does happen, it is usually significant, and the compliance can be difficult..
Four areas of recent or resisted change include:.
1. The Environment ( Sep 2016).
2. Wiring Rules (AS/NZS 3000:2018) ( May 2019).
3. RCS, or Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) ( Jul 2019), and.
4. Coronavirus ( Apr 2020).
Given that these four topics won't apply to everybody, we won't explore them here, but you can follow the links to read more.
For this factor, we work hard to keep you notified of changes to legislation or policy - particularly if it affects a product you formerly acquired from us. Frequently, we will supply a complimentary update if the modifications are not too cost-prohibitive at our end.
Work Health and Safety PROCEDURE ARENA 5|AFFORDABILITY.
We've been dealing with, and in, your service for this whole post, now it's crunch time. We can correct mindsets, improve methods, exercise leadership, and keep up with all the changes, but if we don't do all of this cost effectively, there'll be no earnings, and there'll be no service.
We suggest that you gain access to WHS resources that are:.
1. Relatively priced.
2. Quality guaranteed,.
3. Totally certified with industry-relevant requirements.
We likewise recommend you use a supplier that is solutions minded and really useful. That means they'll answer any pertinent concern (not simply the ones that cause big-ticket sales) and they're prepared to explain and clarify issues, even when it costs them a sale. We 'd likewise suggest you search for someone who wants to take your call, and has the competency to answer your questions.
We are such a supplier - and we can back that claim!
We've never ever written a post about our prices, and we probably never ever will, however I think any rational analysis of our products will reveal our prices is fair.

Our requirements are high and completely certified. We described this in the six-part expose we did in 2017 (which we discussed at the start of this article). There's absolutely nothing casual about what we do. If you desire to read those articles, you'll discover them on our blog site.
We'll answer any relevant question, even if it won't result in a huge sale. An example of this was describing what a Safe Work Method Statement was, in November 2017. It's a triviality subject that doesn't make much cash, but it is a concern that is worthy of an answer.
SERVICE INTEGRITY.
It's tough to quantify how lots of sales we've lost by supplying honest responses, specifically to individuals that thought they required something but didn't. Possibly I need to write about some of these, but I haven't done it.
We welcome your phone call! That was our message to you in September last year. We want you to discuss your circumstances, so we can both rest assured that you've got the maximum service.
BRINGING THESE WHS PROCEDURE ARENAS TOGETHER.
By focusing on each of these arenas, you can better prioritise, discriminate, optimise your usage of resources, and awaken your analytical and imaginative characteristics..
Keeping in mind that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, we encourage you to review your Work Health and Safety procedures, see where you're weak, and enhance what you can. Mindsets, methods, affordability, leadership and currency are all worthwhile of your attention.
In the same method, your safety system is only as strong as your weakest WHS procedure. We've written this post to aid you perform an effective evaluation of your Work Health and Safety procedures, see where you're weak, and reinforce what you can. Loose Work Health and Safety procedures do not enable you develop momentum in tendering success. In April 2017, we showed you how to assemble your WHS safety resource handbook, and we reviewed the effectiveness of some other Work Health and Safety procedural resources. These 3 factors are frequently at play when a Work Health and Safety procedure is not followed.
WHS or Safe Work Method Statement Help!
The best bet for any WHS or SWMS help is to speak with Andrew Watters from Occupational Safety Solutions.
For a detailed list of their SWMS Templates please go here: https://www.occupational-safety.com.au/collections/swms
They do have an office, visits by appointment only -
Occupational Safety Solutions
Address: Level 3/55 Pyrmont Bridge Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
Phone: 1800 304 336
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