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Beach Energy: Standardising Fitness to Work Medical Assessments Articles • November 2021 Here’s the story of how Beach Energy adopted and implemented Safer Together’s Fitness to Work Medical Assessment Guideline and used this as a timely opportunity to not only standardise on one medical assessment for its whole business across Australia and New Zealand, but to also align with a new industry-wide approach.

Healthy Consultation: Engaging with Stakeholders in WA/NT on Implementation of the Safer Together Fitness To Work Medical Assessment Guideline Articles • November 2021 More than 40 participants from 26 companies across the oil and gas industry, ranging from Operators, Contractors (large, medium and small), business partners and Health Care Providers, attended the first WA/NT Fitness To Work Medical Assessment Guideline Stakeholder Engagement Workshop held in Perth on the 18th November 2021.

Taking the Right Actions to Reduce Incidents. That’s SMART. Articles • November 2021 Safer Together has released a new e-learn package that provides guidance on developing SMART Actions to address the root causes of incidents through effective application of the Hierarchy of Control.

Land Transport Incident Review Panel - "Safe Loading and Load Restraint" Articles • October 2021 On 8th October Safer Together conducted a Land Transport Incident Review Panel (LTIRP). Delivered as a webinar, the event was attended by participants from 33 different companies around Australia that work in the oil and gas industry.

Recognition for Safer Together in IChemE Global Awards for Process Safety Articles • October 2021 Safer Together was recently awarded “Highly Commended” as one of the finalists in the prestigious Institute of Chemical Engineers Global Process Safety Award for the video “We All Have a Part to Play” developed by the QLD Process Safety Working Group. The IChemE Global Awards celebrate chemical, process and biochemical engineering excellence and are widely considered as the world’s most prestigious chemical engineering awards.

New Members and SLG Appointments Articles • October 2021 We extend a warm welcome to 3 new member companies that joined our community of safety leaders in October 2021.

Reduce Stigma Associated With Mental Health – Make It A Policy Articles • September 2021 With more than one half of the Australian population in lockdown and the uncertainty around both what ‘living with COVID” will look like and when we can expect life to get back to ‘normal’, our health – in particular our mental health - has never been put more to the test.

Prepare to Stand Together for Safety during National Safe Work Month Articles • September 2021 National Safe Work Month is almost here. This October, Safer Together members in Queensland are encouraged to “Stand Together for Safety” in response to a call by the Qld Resources Minister, Scott Stewart MP, for companies across the entire Qld resources sector to engage their workforce in a Safety Re-Set campaign. Safer Together has prepared a toolbox talk pack to help member companies to respond to the Minister’s call during National Safe Work month.

Promoting IOGP Process Safety Fundamentals in Safer Together Learning Event Bulletins Articles • September 2021 Safer Together has published a Learning Event Bulletin that incorporates the recently issued International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP) Process Safety Fundamentals.

MarineSafe Forum and Incident Review Panel Articles • September 2021 On 23rd September the Marine Working Group (MWG) hosted the MarineSafe Forum and Incident Review Panel for 2021 at Dexus Place in Perth. The focus topic of the event was dynamic positioning (DP) on board logistics vessels.