Health and Safety Management
Traffic Management for Construction Projects
This article aims to summarise the requirements for traffic management, planning and training in construction projects with a focus on roadways.
Certification
The process of obtaining ISO Management System Certification
When RKBC meets its customers, the first questions a customer asks is: What is the process for obtaining certification and how long will it take? This article aims to explain this process and explain why the time it takes is very difficult to quote for and why a consultant who provides a definitive timeline should not be trusted.
Health and Safety Management
Pandemic should be on your Risk Register
Up until recently we would not have expected any other pandemic to feature in a Risk Register, but what about now? This article explores whether it should be on your risk register.
Health and Safety Management
Prioritising Risks and Opportunities on the same scale
Management System Standards expect you to prioritise your risks and opportunities, but how do you align risk and opportunity. How do you decide when to prioritise a opportunity over a risk? This article aims to provide a methodology for doing just that.
Health and Safety Management
Forklift use targeted by Worksafe NSW
Worksafe NSW (formerly WorkCover) is currently targeting companies operating forklift trucks in an effort to reduce the accidents and fatalities which have resulted from the use of forklifts. The initiative is one of the high risk programmes being targeted under the new RoadMap launched in August 2016. Worksafe NSW are hoping to assist companies meet their legal obligations and offer practical advice on how to keep people safe around operating forklift trucks. As such Worksafe NSW are using a checklist for discussion purposes and a copy is available in this post.
Environmental Management
FREE Risk Register
A great way to keep on top of your safety risks and hazards, document their associated controls and meet the compliance requirements is to keep a Risk Register. Rob Kellock Business Consulting is giving an Excel template away for FREE. Download it from this post. Read article
Health and Safety Management
Material Safety Data Sheets – are yours up to date?
Simple guidance for Managing your Safety Data Sheets (SDSs). Read article