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Industry Safety Forum: Done and Dusted in Darwin for 2022 Articles • November 2022 We’re ending October on a high note, with the successful wrap-up of our final Industry Safety Forum for 2022 in Darwin. The theme the 2022 Forum was ‘Listen. Share. Learn.’ - connecting with, listening to, and bringing the whole workforce into the conversation around safety in the workplace.

Summer Is Coming: So, It's Time to Reconsider Your Management Of Heat Stress Articles • October 2022 The QLD Health Working Group (HWG) have revised and released an updated Management of Heat Stress Guideline to assist our members. The Guideline defines the triggers and associated controls to mitigate the effects of heat stress on our workforce.

New Members Articles • October 2022 We would like to welcome our newest Member Company to our community of safety leaders.

UGL: Assist and Assure – Engagement That Builds A United Team Articles • October 2022 Here’s the story of how one company is using the Step 7 process to effectively engage multi-disciplined teams in pre-job planning and transition to work in a way that is simple, doesn’t add unnecessary paperwork, and helps to build a united workforce.

Downer: Learning Event Bulletins – Engagement That Focuses On Creating Safety Success Articles • October 2022 Here’s the story of how one company has used smart communication techniques to effectively deploy Learning Event Bulletins in a way that maximises workforce engagement.

Listen. Share. Learn. - Our National Safe Work Month Campaign Materials Are Now Live Articles • October 2022 This year Safer Together is supporting National Safe Work Month by providing a resource pack under the theme of Listen. Share. Learn. in support of psychological safety in the workplace.

Assist and Assure - Expanding Beyond the Drill Site Articles • October 2022 In early September, Safer Togethers’ Rig Site Safety Working Group (RSSWG) held a face-to-face Assist and Assure – Training and Best Practice Workshop in Brisbane that was attended by 30 representatives of 20 Safer Together Member Companies.

Back to Basics When It Comes to Rig Site Safety Articles • October 2022 In late August, our Qld Rig Site Safety Working Group (RSSWG) held its Drilling and Completions Industry Incident Review Panel (DCIIRP) #28, in Brisbane, with the theme ‘Back to Basics’, the theme chosen in response to increasing safety incidents across greater industry; with some incidents reported being very ‘basic’ in nature.

Veolia: Giving A Helping Hand Together To Turn The Tide Articles • September 2022 Building employee engagement and ownership of a safety improvement drive in any large company is never easy. If that isn’t difficult enough, try doing this at the same time as your organisation is in the process of integrating with another large company. Here’s the story of how Veolia deployed one of Safer Together’s initiatives to embrace the challenge.

All My Bags Are Packed and I’m Ready to Go (To Gladstone) Articles • September 2022 In early August, the Safer Together team packed their bags for our Queensland Industry Safety Forum, the first of our Forums to be held in the LNG hub of Australia’s east coast, in Gladstone. With three world-class LNG plants on Curtis Island that will be in operation for decades to come, Gladstone is key to our industry’s success.