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Your Health Matters HSER Connect • April 2023 In any industry, looking after the mental health of workers is paramount to delivering good outcomes for individuals, companies, and communities. In our industry, with a high percentage of workers living and working remotely for extended periods of time – supporting positive mental outcomes is critical for delivering positive outcomes for all stakeholders.

Sharing Lessons Learned via Learning Event Bulletins HSER Connect • April 2023 As a Major Sharing initiative, Learning Event Bulletins (LEBs) are a tool for learning from unwanted events and/or threats to reduce the recurrence of high potential incidents. It is a way in which we learn from past incidents by focussing on unwanted events or threats as triggers to investigate and disseminate lessons learnt.

Recent Happenings at Safer Together HSER Connect • April 2023 See what Safer Together has been up to since our last HSER Connect Bulletin!

Save the Date – 2023 HSER Forum, 25th October in Perth, WA. HSER Connect • April 2023 2023’s Western Australia and Northern Territory HSER Forum will be held on the morning of Wednesday, 25th October 2023, in Perth (WA); with the afternoon dedicated to the Industry Safety Forum.

DCIIRP and Queensland Women of Wells – Diversity in Practice Articles • April 2023 Our Rig Site Safety Working Group DCIIRP's continue to go from strength to strength, with this months’ event partnered by Qld Women of Wells, a fantastic organisation connecting women in the D&C sector from Brisbane to the Beetaloo.

Q2 Theme: Preventing Personal Injuries Articles • April 2023 “By understanding hazards at site, by understanding the harm they can cause us, and by understanding how we can control them to prevent injuries to ourselves and colleagues” neatly summarises our approach to Safer Together’s Q2 Annual Theme: Preventing Personal Injuries.

HSE Advisers Gather Together Articles • COVID-19 Updates • April 2023 We've listened to HSE Advisers, & we know you want to be more engaged - so we gathered in Perth to facilitate this. Here's some top tips: 1. Register on the website and for our Bulletins. 2. Use the resources on the website (use the search function!). 3. Follow Safer Together on socials. 4. Tell your HSE peers to do the same!

‘Assist & Assure’ is Best Practice Articles • April 2023 The first of 2023’s quarterly Assist & Assure (A&A) Best Practice workshops was held in Brisbane in March, with 21 delegates in attendance.

Heat Stress? We Can Take The Heat! Articles • April 2023 The Queensland Health Working Group would like to invite feedback from Member Companies who have implemented (and are using) the Safer Together Heat Stress Guideline in their organisation.

New Members & SLG Appointments Articles • April 2023 We would like to welcome a new Member Company to Safer Together, and we have some changes in our Senior Leaders Groups Queensland and Western Australia/Northern Territory.