Providing and and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace for yourself and your workers, volunteers, customers and visitors is not only the law, it has some added benefits including:
- improved health and wellbeing.
- greater productivity.
- increased job satisfaction.
- greater work participation and increased social inclusion.
- increased individual, team and organisational resilience.
- lower absenteeism rates.
- less workplace injury and workers' compensation claims.
There are many factors to take into consideration when meeting your obligations to provide a safe workplace with one of the most important being employee training.
Identifying Electrical Hazards in the Workplace
This article shares some information about Inscope's Electrical Safety Awareness course and how you can keep safe or how a business can keep their staff safe from electrical hazards in the workplace.
On average fifteen people die every year in Australia from electrical accidents in the workplace. The most common reasons for these deaths include:
- Lack of training or supervision
- Incorrect work practices
- Lack of maintenance
- A hazardous workplace environment
- Faulty or damaged electrical equipment
- Unauthorised repairs on electrical equipment
There are some simple tasks you can undertake to identify electrical hazards in the workplace to protect yourself and your co-workers:
WHSQ has issued a Safety Alert for Fit Testing respirators
The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 highlights the importance of fit testing for tight-fitting respirators for workers who need to use them.
While the Regulator outlines the requirements for persons who carry out fit test, i.e. they must have:
Inscope Training provides high quality training for fitting and testing RPE for a competitive fee of $35.
There is now no reason for any company or workers in Australia not to do this course - Wearing, Fitting & Checking Masks
If you require your workers to undertake this training don't hesitate to contact us for group discounted fees.
22-28 November 2021 is National Asbestos week. This year's campaign asks Australians to Think Twice About Asbestos. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness amongst the public and key trades about the health risks associated with exposure to asbestos fibres. Asbestos is still present in millions of homes, as well as public and commercial buildings across Australia. In homes built before 1990, asbestos can still be found anywhere, affecting 1 in 3 homes nationwide.
Asbestos fibres can pose a risk to health if airborne, as inhalation is the main way that asbestos enters the body causing mesothelioma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer, asbestosis, COPD, pleural plaques, pleural thickening, pleural effusion and atelectasis. The use of asbestos is prohibited in Australia. Building materials supplier USG Boral earlier this month discovered “low levels” of asbestos in products it had imported from China causing the temporary close down of the Brisbane Queens Wharf project (McLeod 2021; Dennis 2021).
This article shares some information about Inscope's Asbestos Awareness course and how you can keep safe or how your business can keep your staff safe from Asbestos exposure in the workplace.
Here at Inscope Training we are proud of our reputation as a provider of high-quality training to the Australian trades industries so we obviously use the most up-to-date technology and learning resources.
As most would probably be aware quite a few of the units in the new CPC packages require students to review, amend and/or create JSA and SWMS’s.
This process can be quite onerous for students to create and for trainers to mark, so as usual, the crew at Ammonite used their experience and cutting edge technical skills to create a free SWMS/JSA Generator to make these activities valid, intuitive, and to provide students with the tools and skills they need to survive.
The tool is available here.
Of course, they also provide a short instructional video on how to use the tool.
The national workspace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica has been halved from an eight hour time-weighted average airborne concentration of 0.1 milligrams per cubic metre (mg/m3) to 0.05 mg/m3.
P2/N95 Disposable Respirator Training
Inscope Training is pleased to announce our new P2/N95 Disposable Respirator Training Awareness course!
The mission for the creators of this course is the provide best practice awareness around the correct selection, fitting and maintenance of respiratory protection equipment, in particular P2 masks..
This course has been developed to provide learners with an understanding of how to choose the right mask and protect themselves against particulates (including airborne viruses).
This course has been developed inline with Australian and New Zealand standards.
The P2/N95 disposable respirator training course is split into 6 modules and takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.
- Employer and Employee Obligations and Requirements
- Respirator Selection
- Fitting the Respirator.
- Performing a Fit Check on the Respirator
- Wearing and Removing the Respirator
- Respirator Limitations
Companies and employers can make this course available to their employees and contractors by adding it to their personalised Inscope Training landing page. This saves the hassle of chasing people for their certificates and makes the invoicing / payment a breeze.
To commence If you want to set up a personalised landing page for your company, just call us on 1300 579 808 - it only takes a few minutes.
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