Things can go seriously wrong if not enough attention is paid to industry-related, work health and safety regulations. The construction industry ranks in the top 5 industries for work-related fatalities, emphasising the importance of compliance for ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for all your personnel.

1. HIGGINS COATINGS
Workplace Health & Safety
Overview

2. The importance of Work Health & Safety
Things can go seriously wrong if not enough attention is paid to industry-related, work health
and safety regulations.
According to a Safe Work Australia publication on key Work Health & Safety statistics in
Australia, there were 196 work related injury fatalities in Australia in 2013, with the construction
industry having the third highest rates of work-related fatalities that year.
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3. Work-related injuries
The same publication provides the following Work Health & Safety statistics for Australia:
A total of 531 800 work-related injury claims were made in Australia between 2013 and
2014;
The highest rates of serious incident claims came from labourers, machine operators
and drivers, technicians and trades workers;
STATISTICS

4. STATISTICS
Work-related injuries
The types of serious injuries claimed for included:
Muscular stress injuries;
Falls on the same level and from heights;
Traumatic joint/ligament and muscle/tendon injuries;
And injuries of the upper or lower back.

5. WORK HEALTH & SAFETY
Regulation service providers
The following acts and organisations provide information about the minimum requirements and
regulations for Work Health & Safety:

6. WORK HEALTH & SAFETY
Regulation service providers cont.
The following acts and organisations provide information about the minimum requirements and
regulations for Work Health & Safety:

7. WORK HEALTH & SAFETY
Tips for re-evaluating your Work Health & Safety procedures
Taking stock of all work activities and identifying the risks involved in each will help you
develop an effective health and safety management system.

8. WORK HEALTH & SAFETY
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) recommends:
1. Take inventory of all of the activities that make up your staff’s work portfolios and then
determine which occupational health and safety risks are associated with each.
2. Decide on what needs to be done to eliminate health and safety risks.
3. Decide on which controls you will need to put in place to reduce the potentially negative
health and safety effects that these risks may have on your staff.
4. Develop your own work health and safety policy to prioritise safety procedures at work.

9. At Higgins, we are committed to ensuring a
safe and healthy working environment for all
personnel. We aim to prevent work-related
injuries and illness by providing and
maintaining an environment in compliance
with the industry-leading safety and
environmental legislation.

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