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WSA has worked with many companies taking them from compliance mode to safety culture excellence. A safety culture is a broad, organization-wide approach to safety management.

A safety culture is the end result of combined individual and group efforts toward values, attitudes, goals and proficiency of a Company’s health and safety program. It is a behavioural based process.

In creating a safety culture, all levels of management are highly regarded on how they act toward workers and on a day-to-day basis. Upper management observable commitment to workplace safety helps workers take it more seriously and this translates into a safer work environment for everyone.

Responsibility for encouraging the safety culture may start with management, but it trickles down to each individual in the company. Everyone has a part in keeping themselves and others safe.

Will your safety compliance withstand your Regulator’s scrutiny?

Every employer says they are committed to providing a safe workplace. Under our OHS/WHS legislation, everyone in companies large and small in all States, Territories and the Commonwealth owes a duty of care to ensure the safety and wellbeing of everyone else in and around their workplace.

Risk Assessment and Hazard Management:

If I don’t know what can hurt me I cannot avoid it
Risk assessment is the foundation of our health and safety legislation and should be fundamental to your health and safety system. An unmanaged risk can have significant legal, economic, environmental and human cost to your business.

WSA will help you to identify and manage your risks. Managed risks equal managed costs and legal compliance – which makes good business sense. This may include site and workplace Inspections which are an essential element in hazard reduction because issues can be identified, assessed, fixed or reported. In this way risks are reduced and contribute to workplace safety. Inspections are only part of the hazard control strategy.

Having a Safety System:

Say what you do, do what you say

WSA works with you to develop an appropriate, robust and implementable safety system that supports a safe workplace, manages risk and minimises prosecution by your Safety Regulator. From initial audit, to systems development to training your employees, WSA provides tailored solutions to best meet your safety system requirements.

A robust safety management system is the basis for managing workplace health. safety and welfare. Every employer and employee has an obligation and a duty of care to their work colleagues to provide a safe workplace. 

This is not only a legislative requirement, but tells employees, subcontractors, visitors and the public that they are in an environment which wants to promote safety as one of its core values – promoting the concept of Work safe – home safe.

WSA Safety specialists can provide professional advice and guidance to organisations on developing, implementing and maintaining a safety system that not only assists in compliance to OHS/WHS legislation but can contribute to improving workplace safety performance.

Consultative Arrangements which fulfill their advisory/monitoring/consultative role can be highly effective. However, in some workplaces, they lose direction and seem to have a self-perpetuating life of their own. It can be argued that the effectiveness of any meeting is directly related to the effectiveness of the Chairperson. It is therefore imperative that the chairperson has the necessary skills and tools to perform their roll efficiently and effectively.

One of the most important activities of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Committee is the meeting where this is the forum where members actually work as a committee, to share information about workplace OHS issues; consider OHS projects and present advice to management on OHS policy, programs and issues.

This service:

•  Focuses on the roles of each member of the meeting, as well as the

•  importance of preparation and structure as well as systematic approaches to

•  ensure the meeting operates at maximum efficiency.

•  Is designed to provide the Chairperson and all the members with further skills

•  and certainty in their role so that the OHS Committee can operate more

•  effectively and make a greater impact on OHS in the workplace.

Workplace Inspections:

If I don’t know its broken how can I fix it?

On their own inspections, will not guarantee that your workplace is hazard free. They must be conducted in combination with other occupational/workplace health and safety management systems for good WHS/OHS performance.

Inspections are necessary to:

•  Identify aspects of the working environment and work tasks that could

•  contribute to injury/damage – and thus allow unacceptable conditions or

•  conduct to be addressed;
•  Review workplace standards in accordance with legal and company

•  requirements; and,
•  Provide a systematic means, for those who are at risk of injury, to help

•  control the working conditions

We can provide someone that has that objective and unbiased yet skilled eye to develop inspection programs, forms, matrices and databases to assist you and your program.