Serious About Safe Business Program

The Serious About Safe Business program is designed to help small businesses manage their health and safety risks and improve business outcomes.

The program is aimed at small businesses without well developed, existing health and safety systems 

Program components include:

• a workshop covering how to assess your safety risks and how to take a systems-based approach to managing the safety risks associated with your business - the workshop will address:

  - the importance of management commitment to safety
  - the primary legislative requirement to take all reasonably practicable steps to manage health and safety risks in your business
  - consultation requirements
  - developing and implementing safe work procedures
  - training and supervision of employees
  - reporting requirements to Workcover
  - workers' compensation and return to work programs

• the Serious About Safe Business Self-Assessment tool which provides businesses with a means of assessing their current level of safety compliance as well as accompanying guidance on how to lift safety performance to a higher level over 6 key result areas
   

• a Certificate of Achievement and window decal for those businesses progressing through to implementation of safety improvements. 

Cost:  $95

Workshop dates for 2010 are as follows:

• Tuesday 11 May 2010.

• Tuesday 21 September 2010.

BOOKINGS FOR THESE WORKSHOPS ARE ESSENTIAL.

Click here to register online.