Welcome to the new Safety Check
The Safety Check is a free, regular newsletter from the Australasian College of Health & Safety aimed at keeping you abreast of college news as well as occupational health & safety issues.
I hope you enjoy this edition and look forward to speaking with you soon.
Norm Osmand, Principal
ACHS Website receives major overhaul…
You've no doubt noticed something different about this month's 'Safety Check' and if you visit our website you'll see even more changes. As the college grows, our students and associates are increasingly using the web to communicate and access our courses & training materials. We recently consulted Propeller Graphic Design & Marketing on how we could improve and bring our website up to date and here it is.
More Features to keep you informed
Obviously we'd like you to take a look around but here's a quick summary of what you can find at our new site.
- Links to our online courses, student handbook and training calendar right up front on our Home Page
- Our Profile and Code of Practice
- Details of the college's People and what we do (sorry, no photos yet)
- Our full list of Courses along with entry requirements, fees, qualifications and Enrolment forms
- Details of our Auditing, Consulting and Training Services
- College internal News with details of events, awards and new courses
- OH&S industry News - legislation & state and territory OHS authorities
- Our full year Training Calendar
- Student Handbook detailing our policies and procedures
- Some of our Partner organisations and suppliers
Built to strict Web Standards
The new ACHS site is built to W3C web standards' using XHTML & CSS and will be managed internally using Adobe Contribute 3 to keep you up to date. The site is also designed to meet WAI accessibility guidelines - ensuring access to all site visitors, whatever their ability levels or disabilities.
Let us know what you think
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ACHS - A Milestone on the Baulderstone Hornibrook Safety Journey…
Multi-national construction company, Baulderstone Hornibrook, recently chose the ACHS to provide Workplace Health & Safety Officer (WHSO), and Construction elective training courses for their employees.
The WHSO course is aimed at people who work, or wish to work, as Workplace Health and Safety Officers at a workplace or construction workplace in accordance with the provisions of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995. It is also an ideal course for managers, supervisors or workers who have been elected as Safety Representatives for their workplace.
Baulderstone Hornibrook have a strong commitment to Health & Safety and have developed the Baulderstone Hornibrook “Safety Journey”, an innovative safety program focused on reducing workplace accidents, injuries and illnesses through behavioural change. David Briffa, Baulderstone Hornibrook’s Queensland Safety Representative, commented:
“We believe people give their best performance in a secure and healthy environment. Our reputation and profitability depend upon our ability to manage our operations safely, and our approach is based upon consultation, learning and continual improvement.”
The college is delighted to be part of the Baulderstone Hornibrook “Safety Journey” and is looking forward to meeting more of their Queensland team when further training takes place next month.
Logo and artists impression of Brisbane Square reproduced with permission from Baulderstone Hornibrook.
Finally a Valid Excuse for Being Late to Work!
We at the ACHS pride ourselves on providing the best - and that includes providing the best excuse for running late for work! While most of us struggle to dream up a plausible reason for tardiness, our own Mark Baird found the ultimate way to be excused, when he called the office to say he was running late for work as he had to put out a fire.
Mark is a volunteer fire-fighter and training officer with the Narangba Rural Fire Station and was called out to attend to a house fire. After putting out the fire, Mark dutifully returned to work – the true ACHS professional!
“I thought your content was the best presented of all I've seen”
It seems even our trainers can't get enough of the ACHS. Julia Bunn, Principal Consultant / Occupational Therapist for Easec Occupational Health, recently sent us this glowing testimonial;
“Thankyou for the opportunity to present the WPR100 course on behalf of the Australasian College of Health & Safety…
I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the work, and received very positive feedback from the participants. I also wanted to let you know that I was very impressed with the course content. I have trained this course many times for different organisations, and thought your content was the best presented of all I've seen.”
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Health & Safety Representatives and Incident Investigation courses
We are seeking expressions of interest in the following courses to be run late June or early July (N.B dates not confirmed, this is for expressions of interest at this stage);
Course to be held at Wellington Point or your workplace.
If you are interested in either of these courses, please contact us ASAP
Watch This Space
The College have commissioned the construction of a purpose-built trailer for confined space training and safe working at heights courses.
Read next month's Safety Check for more information
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The Australasian College of Health & Safety
The Australasian College of Health & Safety (ACHS) is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO #30771).
The ACHS is privately owned & operated and growing rapidly to become one of the foremost providers of workplace health and safety training in the Australasian region.
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PO BOX 2291
Wellington Point
QLD 4160
Ph: 07 3822 3228
Fax: 07 3822 3214
e: info@austchs.com
