Is Your Safety Culture Helping or Hindering Compliance?
Traditionally, health and safety efforts have focused on the physical parts of an organisation. The environment in which people work, along with the tools, equipment, machinery and substances that are used to perform work, should be risk assessed and any hazardous conditions managed as effectively as possible. This requirement is enshrined in WHS legislation, both […]
Negative Emotions: The Impact on Workplace Safety
Deep underground, a team methodically chips away at the hardened rock face. Their swinging movements are seemingly haphazard yet synchronised toward the goal of extracting hidden slivers of precious ore. The hypnotic strikes of tools are occasionally broken by the sounds of cascading rock and lumbering machinery. One worker stands out from the rest. His […]