Webinars

2025

September

• What is the difference between a JSA and a SWMS?

• Electric Vehicle Bans

• Workplace Fatality Stats

• Question of the week: What age of building can you assume there is no asbestos present?

August

• Should executives be involved in accident investigations>

• When is water too hot?

• What is the difference between bonding and earthing equipment?

• Conveyor belt fatalities

• Machinery safety workshops

• Conference highlights part 2

July

• AIHS Conference Highlights including Dreamworlds Safety Experience

• Personal Heaters in Winter

• Pedestrian Exclusion Zones

June

• Measuring Safety

• Inspecting Storage Racks

• Safety Rules vs Values

May

• Psycho-Social Climate Surveys

• Machinery Safety Innovations

• Quad Bike Accident

• NT WorkSafe White Cards

• Electric Gate Accident

April

• Safety Signage

• Silica Training ACT

• Re-Installing Engineered Stone Benchtops.

March

• Equipment Isolation vs Loto

• Victorian Psychological OHS Regulations

February

Safety Planning 2025 workshop and understanding safety law.

2024

December

• Working near deep water

• Question of the week:

  • If a low tree branch hangs over your property are you allowed to cut it off?

• Can we give away old equipment?

• Does wearing safety glasses all day harm your eyesight?

November

• Working From Home Long Term

• Dangerous Goods Update

• Director Acquitted of Forklift Breach

• Relying on Experienced Worker Costs $1M

• Shopping Trolley Theory

October

• Effective Safety Planning

• Bow Tie Accident Investigation

• Unsafe Roadside Work

• Are safety committee members and safety representatives liable for the advice they may give?

September

Road Safety Special Edition

August

• Flammable liquids and static electricity.

• Is fatigue a WHS issue?

• Can you use mobile phones at the petrol station?

• Do you need an external person to conduct a rack inspection?

• Are alcohol-based hand sanitisers dangerous?

July

• Forklift Safety

• AIHS Conference Summary

• De-Cluttering Safety

June

• Why most “Take5s” don’t work.

• What should be on your safety notice board.

• Engineered silica stone ban

• Can ‘domestic type’ extension leads be used in the workplace?

May

• Measuring safety performance.

• Electric safety changes.

• Correct wearing of respirators enforced.

• Harsh tone not necessarily bullying.

• Scheduler convicted of recklessness

• Vic incident notification amendment.

April

• Is there too much psychological health?

• Stress is good for your health and business.

• Is it legal to park your car on the nature strip?

• New welding fumes limit.

• Too much hi-vis?

• 28th April - Workers Memorial Day.

March

• Noise cancelling Airpods & headphones in PPE areas.

• When are child car restraints required.

• First Vic & Qld personal manslaughter convictions.

• Economics of safety from famous economist, Thomas Sowell.

• Risk of BBQ wire brushes

Questions of the Week

• What legally constitutes as a trip hazard?

• Can we use non-fluorescent uniforms as our high viz?

February

• Self driving Cars

• Do car companies have a sense of humour?

• Trucking executive jailed for 3 years

• Work Injury trends 2023

• Selfie photo risks

Questions of the Week

• By law do we need to do fire warden training every year?

• If a forklift operator is found to exceed the workplace alcohol limit, do they lose their licence?

2023

December

Can higher speed limits improve safety and are autonomous cars too polite?

• Can you put a Christmas tree on your car roof?

• Presents with Lithium-ion batteries

• Call for ban on Engineered Stone

• Dangerous Goods Waste Disposal

• Electric Car Chargers.

November

How high can we stack IBC’s and Are “The Block’s” benchtops unsafe?

Also this month:

• Replace Gas

• New Asbestos Register

• Toxic Workplace Conviction

October

Are reversing beepers compusory and what is wrong with this sign?

Also this month

• Crisis vs Emergency Management

• National Safe Work Month

September

It’s time to get serious about Emergency Planning.

Also this month

• Are they ok? 5 signs of distress in workers.

• Question of the month: Are fire alarms required in all workplaces?

• Scalping conviction.

• Elevated Work Platform Crush Hazards.

August

Andrea and Sue’Ellen answer the question “Do construction induction cards expire?”

Also this month

• Managing Manual Handling Risks.

• Tradies National Health Month.

• Workplaces are not playgrounds.

July

Join Stephen and Andrea as they discuss our Benchmarking Survey and Crane Exclusion Zones.

Also this month:

• Bradbury Chemical Fires Prosecution.

• Question of the week: Are workplaces required to have fire wardens?

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June

Gary and Andrea discuss measuring safety and Frank from LinkSafe explains the new LinkSafe Form.

Also this month:

• Is that new car smell harmful?

• No such thing as online training.

• What is the legally required prequency for test & tag of portable electrical leads and equipment?

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May

Join Gary and Andrea as they discuss Good Process but Bad Practices and when do you need a Dangerous Goods manifest?

Also this month:

• How close are pedestrians allowed to come to operating mobile plant?

• How close are workers allowed to approach an unprotected edge?

• AIHS Policy on Engineered Stone.

• Road Safety Week.

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April

Join us this month as Gary discusses Risk Assessment problem and their solutions

Also this month:

• Question of the week

• DG Fire Brigade Applications

• Recent Safety Bulletins

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March

This month Sue’Ellen discusses Storm Safety.

Questions of the week answered:

• Must workshop equipment have foot emergency stop buttons?

• Can non-electrical staff open electrical junction boxes to adjust setting?

• Do forklift pedestrian cages have to have the manufacturer’s plaque attached?

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February 2023

Join us for the first Webinar of 2023 where Andrea and Sue’Ellen discuss:

• Lost Limbs and Digits

• Electric Vehicles

• Must Hard Hats be Work on a Construction Site?

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Preparing An Effective SWMS

In this useful short video Safety Action CEO Gary Rowe will show you how to prepare an effective and compliant Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS).

Safety Links

Safety Action has collected a range of safety related resources that you may find useful and included them in the links below. If you need further assistance in finding or interpreting legislation, or addressing a particular problem in your workplace, please contact us.

Updated: August 21st 2020.