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BE A SAFETY CHAMPION October is Safe Work Month – a time to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces for all Australians. This year’s theme - ‘Be a Safety Champion’ - demonstrates that anyone, both employers and workers from any occupation or industry can be a champion for work health and safety. Whilst there has been a steady decline in the rate of workrelated fatalities and workers compensation claims, there is still work to be done. No industry should be unsafe to work in and no death or injury is acceptable. And, because the whole community bears the financial cost of poor WHS, we know that safe and healthy work benefits everyone. A range of practical resources are available at www. safeworkaustralia.gov.au
COST OF INJURY AND ILLNESS STATISTICS Work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths impose costs on employers, workers and the community. These include both direct costs and indirect costs: 33Direct costs include items such as workers’ compensation premiums paid by employers or payments to injured or incapacitated workers from workers’ compensation jurisdictions. 33Indirect costs include items such as lost productivity, loss of current and future earnings, lost potential output and the cost of providing social welfare programs for injured or incapacitated workers.
33The level of costs borne by each economic agent varies with the severity of the injury or disease. While measures of direct costs are understood and reasonably simple to measure, these costs cover only a fraction of the total cost of work-related injury and disease. For its part, ASIAL is committed to providing members with a range of resources to assist in meeting their workplace, health and safety obligations.
SAFE WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT The Workplace Health & Safety Act 2011 places significant obligations on business operators to demonstrate active participation of Workplace, Health and Safety prevention. Failure to do so can attract fines of up to: 33$3 million per breach of a corporation; 33$600,000 per breach for an officer; 33$300,000 per breach for an individual and 33up to five years’ imprisonment. The ASIAL Safe Workplace Management system is an online workplace health and safety tool tailored to the security industry, to manage your work, health and safety requirements. Processes are available in the system to identify, evaluate and control hazards and risks within the work environment. Among the system’s features include: 33Different access levels and dashboard views with individual login details for employees and contractors; 33Escalation workflow notifications sent to multiple recipients and ability to raise actions immediately; 33Employee training and licence registers including expiry dates notifications; 33Coverage for all sectors via one account (this covers the members who provide both electronics and manpower); 33Incident reporting and risk assessment with automatic risk calculation; 33A clear audit trail for all forms and version control for document management; 33An App for employees to complete forms on the go; (coming soon) 33Enhanced reporting that can combine information from multiple forms e.g. Hazards and incidents to show high level view; 33GPS location tagging for images uploaded to incident forms (coming soon) All of the above is available at annual subscription fee of $395 (including GST)! Subscribers will also have access to the ASIAL SWM System Logo to promote their compliance with WHS requirements.
TO SUBSCRIBE go to asial.com.au or contact us on 1300 127 425 for more information.
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