Safer Together is a member-led organisation working together to prevent harm to our frontline workers. To do this, it is important that we understand hazards at site, the harm they can cause us, and how we can control them to prevent injuries to ourselves and colleagues.
Body stressing, falls, trips and slips, and being hit by moving objects are the cause of most work-related injuries in Australia (Safe Work Australia Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia, 2023), and work-related mental health conditions are on the rise – with time off work for work-related mental health conditions more than four times longer than for other injuries.
In our Q2 Theme ‘Preventing Personal Injuries’ portal, we have collated resources to help our Member Companies to:
- Enhance awareness of personal hazards and the potential for personal injuries,
- Understand how your decisions affect the risk of personal injuries
Line of Fire, put simply, is 'being in harm’s way'.
Safer Together has developed a mini-portal where you can find a range of information and tools designed to reduce Line of Fire incidents, designed as a 'one stop shop' to access a range of tools designed to reduce the incidence of line of fire incidents across our industry.
Email: [email protected] for information.
Helping Hands - Hand and Finger Preservation Program designed to reduce the incidence of hand and finger injuries at our well sites.
Hand and finger injuries are currently the most frequent injury type occurring on a wellsite. The high incidence of hand injuries is not just confined to Drilling and Completions. In 2020-2021, more than 35% of injuries across our entire Industry involved hands, fingers and thumbs.
This hand and finger safety program designed to reduce the incidence of hand and finger injuries at our well sites. The centrepiece of the program is an innovative workshop exercise in which participants immobilise their dominant hand. They then work in a small team to build a prosthetic hand. Helping Hands take the prosthetic hands that are built during the exercise and distribute them to amputee landmine victims throughout the developing world.
The Program can be delivered in-house by using Workshop materials available on our website, or by engaging Safer Together to deliver the Workshop.
Follow this link to our Helping Hands page to find out more.
Follow the link to our Q2 - Preventing Personal Injuries page and browse the available resources – including Learning Event Bulletins and Toolboxes to enable safety conversations on the Q2 theme in your workplace, and initiatives available for immediate deployment designed to prevent personal injuries.
For any questions regarding our Q2 Theme: Preventing Personal Injuries, email: [email protected].