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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.

Contain It Rollout Now Underway in WA! Articles • June 2021 After all the planning, design and negotiating, the first Contain It Major Accident Hazard Awareness Training course in Western Australia was run on 31 May in Perth with attendees from Chevron, Woodside, ERGT and Safer Together. With more courses scheduled to take place regularly over the coming months, it’s time to book your spot now!

23rd Drilling & Completions Industry Incident Review Panel – "COVID-19: What Have We Learned? What Next?" Articles • June 2021 On the 16th of June, the Drilling and Completions Industry community came together for a livestream event sponsored by Origin Energy, Ventia and Easternwell to reflect on how the impact of COVID-19 has both challenged and improved businesses overall, and life generally for staff.