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October: Stand Together for Safety in Qld Articles • August 2021 This October, during National Safe Work Month, 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.

Halliburton: A Cool Way To Do Heat Stress Awareness Training Articles • August 2021 Here’s the story of how Halliburton adopted and implemented Safer Together’s Heat Stress Awareness e-Learn module and used this as a timely opportunity to not only align with a new industry-wide approach, but to also re-visit its pre-existing delivery model for this type of training.

Safer Together Half Yearly Bulletin (1H 2021): An Engagement Tool To Keep Your People in the Loop Articles • Half Yearly Bulletins • August 2021 Want to engage your workforce and keep them up to date with the latest news about what's happening in safety across our Industry?  We've produced our third six-monthly Bulletin that summarises the latest developments at Safer Together.

NOPSEMA Focuses on Offshore Crane Safety Articles • July 2021 On 27 July, NOPSEMA invited Industry representatives to attend a Crane Safety Workshop to discuss trends observed in recent investigations and notifications of dangerous occurrences reported by duty holders. Safer Together initiatives were among those identified at the Workshop as an important component of maintaining safe offshore crane operations.

5 Whys – “Going for Gold” in Incident Investigation Articles • July 2021 With the Tokyo Olympic Games in full swing, it’s the perfect time to introduce a new e-learning tool from Safer Together that provides training in a problem-solving technique originally developed in Japan. Known as the “5 Whys”, it’s a simple but powerful tool that allows you to dissect a problem and reveal its underlying causes quickly. If used effectively, it can improve incident investigations and assist in the improvement of work practices, operational procedures and workplace safety culture.

Collaboration in Action: Assist and Assure Best Practice Workshop Articles • July 2021 On 14 July the project team for the Assist and Assure leadership skills program held a Best Practice Workshop as part of providing implementation support to companies that have started to deploy, or are interested in deploying the Assist and Assure program. Presenters from Arrow Energy, MPC Kinetic, Wild Desert and Global Engineering & Construction shared their company’s deployment journey so that other member companies could have the benefit of learning from their experience.

New Members and SLG Appointments Articles • July 2021 We extend a warm welcome to 5 new member companies that joined our community of safety leaders in July 2021.

INPEX: Streamlining Safety Inductions Case Studies • June 2021 It’s not uncommon in many large companies for safety induction programs to become more cluttered from one year to the next. In response to audit findings and incident investigations, there is often a tendency for companies to adopt a mindset of thinking “more is better”, resulting in more and more content being added to safety training courses, especially safety inductions. But a lengthy and voluminous induction does not necessarily improve safety outcomes.

INPEX: Streamlining Safety Inductions Articles • June 2021 Here’s the story of how INPEX adopted and implemented the common Industry Safety Induction (ISI) and used this as a timely opportunity to not only align with a new industry requirement, but also to review its pre-existing induction framework.

Reflections from Queensland Frontline Workforce on Contain It Articles • June 2021 Situational awareness and a hands-on feel of process safety hazards are essential for anyone in the CSG-LNG industry that is involved in the design, operation or maintenance of plant and facilities. Hear what some of the people that work in these roles say about Contain It (Mobile Major Accident Hazard Awareness Training Course) and join the 350+ people that have already been through the course so far this year.