Integrated Risk Management
Worksafe authorities across Australia are encouraging businesses to take a systems approach in their safety programs.
This means addressing complex and interconnected safety issues through proactive and preventative controls and structural changes to work design and systems of work.
Our integrated safety approach combines our Mindsafe and Backsafe programs to address the psychosocial and physical hazards in the workplace.
We help businesses move away from post-event reactive controls and move towards proactive and preventative controls through structural changes to work design and systems of work.
Manual Handling Risk Assessment
A manual handling risk assessment is a detailed formal review of the physical demands of all work tasks undertaken in a workplace. The purpose of this assessment process is to identify any physical or environment hazards that may put workers at a risk of sustaining a musculoskeletal injury.
Manual handling risk assessments are an opportunity for a full workplace health check, with the aim of fostering continual improvement. Our approach is highly geared towards identifying and recording violations of best practice moving habits, identifying improvement opportunities, and working with management and staff to pragmatically address specific workplace challenges.
Upon request we will write a comprehensive report outlining all physical demands, risks and solutions for the short/long term prevention of injuries in the workplace. Typically, this includes the following information;
A detailed task analysis of work activities including a description of which area/part of the workers body is most at risk of developing a musculoskeletal injury - all in lay terms for easy understanding
Identification of manual handling injury hazards (e.g. how workers use equipment and the workplace structure)
A detailed description of potential control measures to reduce risks.
We can also help develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to establish a set of step- by-step instructions to help workers carry out routine operations in a standard way. SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output and uniformity of performance, while reducing miscommunication and failure to comply with industry regulations.
Integrated Risk Approach
Our Integrated Training Pathway is based on the learnings from 30 years of experience developing and delivering our Backsafe, Mindsafe and Bizsafe programs.
Our Backsafe programs educate participants about the value of correct biomechanics and sound ergonomic work practices to avoid physical injury and build body strength.
Our Mindsafe programs educate participants about the value of personal and group mental wellbeing and sound psychosocial work factors to avoid, absenteeism, presenteeism and mental health injury and build inner resilience.
Our Bizsafe program use contemporary evidence-informed practices and a systems-based approach to give a holistic view of organisational, social and environmental risk factors so as to identify, assess and prioritise controls to build physical & psychosocial power.
We need to be guided by you as to where you want to start, how comprehensively you want to undertake these activities and in what timeframe.
