Positive Safety Outcomes

02/11/2022

All set up for the Worksafe Expo tomorrow at My State Arena, Hobart from 10am. Look forward to discussing your health and safety requirements.

30/10/2022

As strong supporters of whole-of-person health, wellbeing, safety and injury management, we’re bringing high-vis to the 2022 ‘Safe Bodies Safe Minds Expo’. It’s free, so join us on Thursday November 3 at MyState Bank Arena. Talk to us about how we can make a positive contribution to your safety performance. We will have fun WHS competitions for you to enter, so make sure you call in for a chat.

23/04/2022

It was fantastic to be able to sponsor the Newstead Athletics Inveresk Three Bridges run today. Congratulations to all who took part in great weather with great people!

18/02/2021

12/01/2021

Positive Safety Outcomes is proud to be associated with the Aztec Suns Women's Division 1 Touch Football Team as naming rights sponsor. The team play competitively with pride, passion and sportsmanship. Good luck for the rest of the season.

18/10/2020

Bids on shared pages?

Online Auction - Sneak Peak. Another hot item which I'll be bidding on for sure. Best Chinese in town so why not try it out in preparation for you opening bid? Say thanks to Stanley for supporting Newstead Athletics!

15/04/2016

Faulty electrical appliances can kill or seriously injure. Are your appliances safe? Positive safety Outcomes has expanded it's business to offer Testing and Tagging of Portable Electrical Appliances and Portable RCDs. Follow the link for further details.
http://www.positivesafetyoutcomes.com/blog/

April 15, 2016 Electrical Testing and Tagging April 15, 2016.
Each year in Australia there are many workplace related deaths caused by electrocution and many more serious injuries or destructive fires. Most of these could have…

07/01/2016

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 fire 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.

03/12/2015

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 organisation 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