Shockingly statistics show 600 people every week die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, including kids, teenagers, and fit adults. While it’s fantastic that more businesses, community groups and private homes are now purchasing AED’s (Automated External Defibrillator), did you know you can register your defib with ambulance services in most states. By registering your AED’s location [...]
At RME, we love a good news story and the attached video of Guy Leech visiting the workplace of cardiac arrest survivor Mick Ritchie is simply awesome. RME proudly partners with Guy & Heart180 to help businesses, clubs, community, or home users to make one potentially lifesaving decision - purchasing a defibrillator. Unfortunately, Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more Aussie’s [...]
If you’re in Melbourne right now you’re looking forward to reopening your business and wondering what our Covid management plans will need to include to ensure our compliance into stage 3 and beyond. For other states RAMSOL products will definitely be a cost-effective and time benefiting addition to your existing Covid management. Regardless of your situation, high on your list of requirements will be sanitising & disinfecting your premises, equipment and assets, suitable for all [...]
By: Dianne Rawlings During this unprecedented time, we find ourselves receiving information, strategies, and management ideas from ‘experts’ with many different leadership styles. Whilst Covid is being managed in most Australian states and I’m hearing great news from our team in SA and ACT/NSW, here in Victoria there is a blame game happening where almost everyone has an opinion on [...]
We recently promoted the ‘Contractor HQ’ Webinar – Contractor Management Best Practices – Practical Tips for Golf Clubs. While this program is not just for golf clubs, this webinar just happened to be targeted at this particular group. During the webinar Phil Rice (Director) explained what questions a safety inspector would ask post incident. • How did you select the contractor? • What is your contractor management [...]
By: SafeWork NSW The COVID-19 pandemic has increased demand for P2 disposable respirators. As a result, construction businesses (and PCBUs) and some other industries have had difficulty getting P2 disposable respirators used for protection against dusts and chemicals including silica, asbestos and lead. This extra demand is leading to fake (RPE) entering the Australian market. Read more: https://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/safety-alerts/safety-alerts/supply-of-fake-face-masks
By SafeWork SA SafeWork SA is issuing a reminder to building owners and contractors about the importance of managing risk of falls. SafeWork SA inspectors recently attended two separate incidents that resulted in serious injuries. Both incidents could have been fatal. The first incident occurred when a contractor fell backwards through an unprotected skylight, falling [...]
By: WorkSafe Victoria WorkSafe Victoria is issuing an alert about the importance of having a plan to manage the risks of dangerous goods when temporarily shutting down or reducing the extent of your operations due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: Occupiers of premises that store or handle dangerous goods may need to temporarily shut down [...]
PCBU - Person conducting a business or undertaking The WHS Act places the primary duty of care and various other duties and obligations on a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’ (PCBU). The meaning of a PCBU is set out in section 5 of the WHS Act. This is a broad concept used to capture all types [...]
