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New Members and SLG Appointments Articles • May 2022 We extend a warm welcome to one new member company that joined our community of safety leaders in April.

If You’re Looking For Help To Engage Your Workforce, We Can Offer A Helping Hand Articles • May 2022 If your company has recently seen a decline in safety performance, boosting workforce engagement may be the key to transforming safety in a positive way. An engaged workforce plays a central role in ensuring companies are not only able to tackle problems and adapt to rapid changes, but also well positioned to emerge stronger. If you’re looking for an effective and interactive frontline workforce engagement tool, Helping Hands may be an ideal solution.

‘Lunch & Learn’ – Leading a Safe Culture Articles • May 2022 March saw the second in our 2022 series of 45 minute ‘Lunch & Learn’ Events. Hosted in Brisbane with a face-to-face audience and also live-streamed to online participants, representatives from Origin Energy, ConocoPhillips and Pro-Test Well Services introduced a suite of eLearn tools that collectively comprise the 3 key components of the Leading a Safe Culture Initiative.

“Lunch & Learns” - Bite-Sized Deployment Support for Busy People Articles • March 2022 As part of our focus to provide more deployment support to member companies, Safer Together has at least 5 ‘Lunch & Learn’ Events lined up for 2022. Take a look at the schedule for the remainder of this year and register your interest if you want to be included on the invitation list for any of these events.

Off The Ground: New Offshore Cranes and Lifting Project Team Has Inaugural Meeting Articles • March 2022 A new project team focussed on Offshore Cranes and Lifting has recently been established and held its first meeting in March. If you’re a subject matter expert in this area and are from a Safer Together member company, we’re looking for suitable candidates to join the Project Team. Let us know if you’re interested.

Maintaining a Positive Safety Culture During Uncertain Times Articles • March 2022 On 09 March the Queensland Rig Site Safety Working Group (RSSWG) hosted an Incident Review Panel in Brisbane on the topic of ‘Maintaining a Positive Safety Culture During Uncertain Times’. If you missed it, you can watch a recording of the event and share it with your work teams.

Safer Together and DrillSafe Continue to Collaborate to Improve Safety In Our Industry Articles • March 2022 In March, Glenn Watt – General Manager Onshore Development, Santos and long-time member of the Queensland Rig Site Safety Working Group was invited to present on behalf of Safer Together at a DrillSafe Forum regarding ‘Lessons Learned Regarding Covid Response in other Australian States’.

New Members and SLG Appointments Articles • March 2022 We extend a warm welcome to two new member companies that joined our community of safety leaders in March...

Health Safety & Environment Representatives (HSERs) Connecting, Learning and Sharing Articles • March 2022 This month, Safer Together released its Q1 2022 ‘HSER Connect’ Bulletin, the 2nd of a quarterly publication first launched late last year. When the need for HSER-related communications was identified, we jumped at the chance to collate stories specific to the HSER experience.

Maintaining Mental Wellbeing in Challenging Times HSER Connect • March 2022 In the past 2 years we have seen many workplace challenges dealing with the effects of COVID. The nature of work in our Industry often requires some individuals to be away from home for repeated and extended periods of time, and with Pandemic-related Government restrictions such as border closures and self-isolation protocols having implications for onshore, offshore and residential-based worker mental health.