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Positive Safety Outcomes

Locality: Windermere, Tasmania, Australia

Phone: +61 401 367 770

Address: 323 Windermere Road 7252 Windermere, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.positivesafetyoutcomes.com

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24.01.2022 Positive Safety Outcomes has published it's website which provides details of the services and consultant. Head on over and check it out at www.positivesafetyoutcomes.com

11.01.2022 "Taking the Pain out of Safety". Positive Safety Outcomes tag line comes to life by ensuring we do the hard work in safety management allowing you to focus your efforts on other important areas of your business. The positive outcome is no pain for your employees, contractors, visitors and members of the public.

08.01.2022 Many people assume that the people most at risk of suffering injury from electricity are those that work with electricity. This isn’t the case as most workplace injuries associated with electricity arise from people using it as part of their job requirement or indirectly as a result of faults. The major causes of electrical risks are electric shock from direct or indirect contact, arcing / explosion / fire causing burns, electric shock from step and touch potentials and fir...e resulting from an electrical fault. What then can we do to make it safe for workers in our workplaces and even for our families at home? There are some simple steps that we can all take that will make it safer: Check cables and power tools prior to use Position cables where they can’t be damaged or cause a trip hazard Don’t use cables and power tools in damp conditions (unless designed for that purpose) Use appropriately rated fuses and circuit breakers to prevent overloading Don’t re-energise overloaded circuits until the cause has been identified by a qualified person Ensure all circuits where portable electrical devices can be connected are protected by Residual Current Devices (RCDs). In addition, there are a number of further steps that need to be taken and some are required by law depending on the work environment. Regular testing (and tagging) will uncover faults undetectable by visual inspection and is a legal requirement when used in environments ‘likely to result in damage to the equipment or a reduction in its expected life span’. A simple interpretation of this would be any industrial use. Furthermore, it is a requirement to ensure that RCD protection is installed where electricity is supplied to plug in electrical equipment and that this RCD protection is regularly tested. In regards to your workplace, are your power tools and cables in good condition? Is equipment in hostile operating requirements tested and tagged and in date? Is there a record of test and tagged equipment? Is RCD protection provided for plug in electrical equipment? Are the RCDs tested and a record maintained of the inspections? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then it would be beneficial to implement a process to ensure that these questions are regularly assessed. Don’t wait for the ‘tingle’ always experienced at a power outlet to become a serious workplace injury! If you need help with System implementation and workplace inspection systems, contact us at [email protected] to discuss your requirements. See more

04.01.2022 Special introductory offer for our Small Business Safety Health Check - Follow the link for detailed information. http://www.positivesafetyoutcomes.com/blog/

02.01.2022 Sport is a major part of the lives of Australians as we strive for personal fitness, achievement of a goal or social fulfilment as part of a team. Muscular skeletal or contact injuries are common place and considered acceptable if they occur as a result of our own intensity of effort and are within the rules of the sport. However, we all deserve to free from the risk of injury from hazards that haven’t been adequately identified or controlled. Does your sporting organisat...ion or club have a risk management plan in place? Does it identify all potential risks? Are the control measures adequate? Why not ask your club or association these questions. If there are no risk management procedures in place, then it is probably by luck rather than proactive management that no one has been injured. A good starting place would be to complete a pre-activity checklist of risks ensuring that it covers all aspects of the facilities, equipment, environment, participants, spectators and external influences. Try getting together with a group of parents to draw up and tick off your health & safety checklist at your next sporting event. If you need help with Risk Management, head over to www.positivesafetyoutcomes.com.au See more