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Queensland Industry Safety Forum: THEN. NOW. NEXT? Articles • July 2023 Industry Safety Leaders of the Queensland Chapter of Safer Together gathered in Brisbane in June to talk safety. Themed ‘Safer Together: Then. Now. Next?’, and with 2024 heralding the first year of Safer Together’s next planning horizon, the event kicked off a conversation about where Safer Together should be heading in 2024 and beyond.

All Roads Lead to Roma (& To Western Australia) Articles • July 2023 Safer Together was thrilled to bring Assist & Assure (A&A) to the regions for our first-ever Supervisor/Leadership Training Workshop in Roma (Qld) this month, before heading to WA for our first-ever A&A Awareness Training Workshop in Perth this July!

Common Industry Competencies Revision 7 Launch Articles • July 2023 This month we launch Revision 7 of the Safer Together Common Industry Competencies (CIC) Specification. The Specification defines standard industry requirements for a range of Australian Units of Competence, their validity periods, and pathways for renewal. It removes confusion that has the potential to hurt people, while providing cost efficiency by eliminating duplication in training requirements.

Rig Site Community Contemplates: 'New' - New Workers. New Starts. New to the Role. Articles • July 2023 Qld’s Rig Site Safety Working Group took a deep dive into our industry’s changing landscape at their recent Drilling & Completions Industry Incident Review Panel (DCIIRP) via the theme ‘‘New’ - New Workers. New Starts. New to Industry. New to the Role.’, recognising that a lack of experience of any type brings extra challenges. The Event focussed on available tools and innovations designed to increase knowledge, freshen perspective, and deepen our commitment to improved safety awareness, safety performance and safety outcomes.

Health Vitals & Help on Heat Stress Articles • July 2023 Making sure your business is fit for the future when it comes to managing the occupational health challenges faced by the workforce throughout our industry was the focus for the Health Vitals session hosted by the Safer Together Health Working Group at June’s Industry Safety Forum (ISF) in Brisbane.

Quarterly Safety Theme. Q3: Safe Lifting, Working at Height & Preventing Dropped Objects Articles • HSER Connect • July 2023 Safer Together plays a key role in promoting safe work practice within the oil & gas industry, providing a means for workers to raise safety issues within the workplace. With our Collaboration Partners, Step Change in Safety (UK) and Always Safe (Norway), in Q3 we focus on Safe Lifting, Working at Height & Preventing Dropped Objects. Thorough planning and specific hazard identification for lifting operations, working at height, and preventing potential dropped objects allows hazards to be safely managed.

New Members & SLG Appointments Articles • July 2023 In June we have had some changes to our Safety Leaders Groups, and would like to welcome a new Member Company.

The Marine Industry Safely Blazing a Trail Towards Renewables Articles • June 2023 Globally, the maritime industry currently generates 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions. As this sector adopts alternative energies, this has implications for safety systems, safety technologies, safety behaviours and safety performance. In April, our Marine Working Group held a Marine Forum and Incident Review Panel (IRP) in Perth to address these issues, with the focus of the Event ‘Alternative Energy Powered Vessels: Technical, Safety & Behavioural Implications’.

The Responses Are In - 2022 Safer Together Member Feedback Articles • June 2023 In February 2023 we asked the Senior Line Leader(s) of each of our member companies to give us their feedback so that we could gauge whether Safer Together is meeting the needs of its members, and we received a lot of responses.

Learning Event Bulletins – Lunch & Learn Articles • Learning Events • June 2023 Since launching Learning Event Bulletins (LEB) 5 years ago, they are our most downloaded Major Sharing initiative, with over 96,000 downloads. And with more than 1/3 of these downloads (35,000+) in 2022 alone, we held a Lunch & Learn in May for Member Companies to refresh, renew and revive their relationship with LEBs.