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• Company secures OHS/environmental certification double;
  
• International fire-prevention Standard for industrial settings released; and
  
• Safety climate survey predicts unsafe behaviours.

A senior safety specialist for Ernst and Young has warned against the hasty uptake of disparate digital technology solutions that are unlikely to provide significant, long-term WHS outcomes to organisations.

The CSIRO is turning its workplaces into "vibrant sites" under a new strategy integrating health and safety into its operations and changing workers' safety attitudes and behaviours, one of its HSE managers says.

The safety director of one of Australia's biggest infrastructure projects has outlined contractor management strategies aimed at protecting the health and safety of workers and the public, including the unheard-of requirement to employ occupational hygienists.

An employer that recently entered a $500,000 undertaking over alleged dust-related WHS breaches has become Australia's first government body to achieve ISO 45001 certification. Meanwhile, the International Organisation for Standardisation has flagged the publishing date for a new psychological health and safety Standard.

An employer responded to a serious incident by introducing a "personal awareness tool" and other practical measures to prevent forklifts entering pedestrian areas, it has revealed in an article produced under the terms of a WHS undertaking.

Solid project management structures, including a comprehensive communications plan, were crucial to a major employer increasing workers' health and safety competencies, according to its national capability and development manager.

Positive safety conversations and regular legislative compliance assessments are key areas of Bethesda Health Care's award-winning safety and health management system, two of its managers tell OHS Alert in this Q&A.

An international employer reinvigorated its safety observation program and culture by teaching workers to increase safe behaviours through clear, positive feedback, according to one of its senior safety managers.

Issuing workers with "yellow cards" for WHS breaches has played a pivotal role in an employer reducing its annual workers' comp claim costs from $30,000 to $1,500 in three years, its CEO says.