Health Check Act

By ACT Government OzHelp has availability for FREE onsite health checks across all ACT building and construction sites. The Tune Up program is funded through the ACT Government and has been developed to raise awareness of personal preventative health and provides a vital link to health and wellbeing. A Tune Up health check with a …

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Federal Government steps in on quad bike problem

By: health and safety bulletin The long-running debate over the safety of quad bikes in Australia may be set to end with the ABC News reporting this month that the Federal Government may be introducing laws requiring mandatory rollover protection for all new quad bikes. The move by the Federal Government follows on from a …

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Risk Essentials Teams Up With Heart180 To Save Lives This Summer

Risk Management Essentials (RME) has recently partnered with Heart180 and shares the same passion and belief as the Director Guy Leech on the importance of defibrillators (defib) and their availability. We want to raise the education levels around critical heart care, so all realise how easy and safe defibrillators are to use and have readily available. …

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October is – National Safe Work Month—Campaign Kits are now available

By Worksafe Australia The campaign kit for this year’s National Safe Work Month campaign is now available. Using the campaign kit, everyone can support a safety culture at their workplace and promote best practice work health and safety initiatives. This year, the kit includes: NSWM brand kit posters editable posters flyers web graphics infographics (coming …

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Grey Fleets – the risk to organisations

We first became aware of the term ‘grey fleet’ around 2015 and it is still widely unknown but a high-risk factor in most organisations. The term defines vehicles being used by a business that it doesn’t own; vehicles owned and used by employees to conduct business and vehicles that are hired occasionally and used for …

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Power tool and manual handling – Safety Alert

A number of separate incidents have occurred on the ACT’s worksites in recent times involving serious injury to several workers’ fingers. Some incidents have involved the use of power tools and others have involved placing hands in dangerous positions during various work activities. In response to these incidents, WorkSafe ACT issued a Power tool and …

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AFL NSW / ACT – R U OK? Round kicking off life-changing conversations

By hello@ruok.org.au Across NSW and ACT, AFL players are pulling up their yellow socks and donning their club jerseys in support of the inaugural RUOK? AFL Round.  The round, established to inspire and empower the AFL community to meaningfully connect with people around them, is the first simultaneous initiate run across all 14 managed leagues …

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New & Young Workers – Rights & Responsibilities by SafeWork SA

If you’re a young person looking to start work, or an employer thinking about taking on a young worker, you need to understand your respective rights and responsibilities around work health and safety and employment conditions. Young workers can be vulnerable and at increased risk of workplace injury due to lack of experience, maturity and …

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Avoiding driver fatigue

Drowsy driving is suspected to be a primary cause in more than 20% of road fatalities. Most fatigue-related accidents occur during normal sleeping hours, and the more severe the crash, the more likely it is that the driver or drivers were fatigued. Fatigue is a likely factor in almost one third of single-vehicle crashes in …

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Do you have a signage problem?

Due to client demand RME are now completing onsite signage audits and supplying signage.  Signage is also a compliance requirement and knowing what your requirements are can sometimes be difficult.  Signage audits ascertain requirements throughout the entire site and in line with our ‘solutions’ philosophy, we can also supply signs at cost-effective, competitive rates. A …

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Changes to working with children screening

South Australia has introduced stronger, more effective, and transparent screening laws for people working or volunteering with children. The new laws mean that, from 1 July 2019, everyone working or volunteering with children must have valid child-related screening. The new working with children check (WWCC) that is being introduced from 1 July 2019 replaces the …

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Paul Hands joins the RME team

It is with immense pride and pleasure that RME announces our growth into ACT and NSW. Paul Hands Senior HSEQ Consultant / Manager ACT & NSW – has commenced with us and is culturally a great fit.   Paul shares the RME passion for our industry and importantly providing solutions to clients with a wide range …

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