When hiring labour, no one should assume that someone else is taking care of health and safety. Everyone in the chain is required to know who is doing what and work together  so risks are eliminated or minimised.

Want to give your business the edge for 2019? Want to do it at no cost to your business?

Queensland tradies have a limited opportunity to get WHS training, funded by their building and construction industry body, Construction Skills Queensland (CSQ).

Being qualified in WHS not only keeps workers safer on site, but gives your business the competitive advantage when tendering for work.

With a WHS qualification you’ll run a safer site because you will:

• Be able to identify potential hazards and know what to do about them
• Understand your legal responsibilities (Not knowing your WHS legal obligations in regards to safety on your work site is not a defence if something goes wrong and you get prosecuted.)

Contracting companies prefer subcontractors with high safety standards, so having your workers add WHS their skill set is a valuable business asset.

There some simple eligibility criteria you’ll need to meet and we handle all the logistics of the funding application with CSQ.

With only limited places remaining, you need to take action now to secure your subsidised place in the BSB41415 Certificate IV in WHS at no cost to you.  Our 5-day courses run in Brisbane, Cairns, Ravenshoe, Rockhampton and Townsville. 

Not getting improvements in your safety leadership culture, or safety statistics? 

It’s highly likely your organisation has failed to engage your people at the ‘hearts and minds’ level required to create and sustain a strong safety culture.

Research shows unsafe acts (behaviours) contribute to 80% of accidents or incidents, whilst unsafe conditions contribute to 20% of accidents or incidents (Hollnagel 1993, Reason 1990). 

Frighteningly, this shows that people’s behaviours are more responsible for accidents than are unsafe environments. The statistics highlight that organisations can have the most stringent safety processes and procedures in the world, yet still have a high incident rate through a failure to engage workers’ values, beliefs, mindsets and attitudes – the keys to changing behaviour.

With a strong demand from organisations in Australia and the UAE, Safety Dimensions has developed a two-day ‘Engaging Hearts and Minds – Creating And Sustaining A Strong Safety Culture’ program, which blends two safety approaches:

1. Engaging the mind through Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) focused on changing behaviour by understanding the mechanics behind our behaviour and;

2. Engaging the heart through Values Based Safety (VBS) which focuses on what drives behaviour at a deep internal level by aligning safety with the values and beliefs of the individual.

 When blended together, Safety Dimensions’ approach captures the hearts and minds of a workforce to ensure sustainable behaviour change is achieved over time.

This highly practical eight-topic program is designed for groups of 8-20 people over 2 days.

Topics covered by participants are:

1. Safety is personal – Understanding why safety is important to you.
2. Safety in the workplace – When do you feel safe at work? Why?
   
3. Why do people behave the way they do? The psychology of human behaviour and human factors
4. Changing safety behaviour – Communication and consultation
5. What makes a good safety culture – The Hudson maturity model
6. Strengthening the culture – Identifying and managing risk
7. Strengthening the culture – Setting standards
8. Embedding new beliefs, attitudes and behaviours – The next steps