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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.

Safer Together Holds Its First Annual HSER Forum HSER Connect • September 2021 “Are there any plans for Safer Together to bring Health Safety & Environment Representatives together from across the industry?” was a question posed by the frontline workforce to our industry’s senior leaders in 2020. In response, a year later on 31st August the inaugural Safer Together Health Safety & Environment Representatives (HSER) Forum was held in Perth.

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.

Qld Rig Site Safety Working Group Host the 24th D&C Industry Incident Review Panel – "Perceived or Actual Pressure at Site” Articles • September 2021 On 14th September Safer Together held their third virtual Drilling and Completions Industry Incident Review Panel of 2021. Sponsored by Shell QGC and Qteq, the theme for the event was “Perceived or Actual Pressure at Site” which is a significant focus area arising from the Incident Deep Dive Analysis project the Rig Site Safety Working Group carried out in 2020.

Engaged & Connected: WA-NT Industry Safety Forum Articles • September 2021 The Industry Safety Forum held in Perth on the afternoon of 31st August 2021 was a rare opportunity for 80 Industry Leaders, not only to meet together face-to-face again, but to be joined for the first time ever by more than 50 Health, Safety & Environment Representatives (HSERs) from the frontline workforce. In total, 36 member companies, APPEA, NOPSEMA and Energy Club WA were represented at the event, which was dedicated to the theme Engaged & Connected.