On 29 October 2008, WorkSafe Alberta released a series of graphic workplace safety ads under the banner “BloodyLucky”. They are as confronting as the recent WorkSafe Victoria ads and raise many of the same questions about appropriateness, applicability and effectiveness. The website www.bloodylucky.ca has a cheesy format that doesn’t fit with the explicit nature of … Continue reading “The graphic workplace ads keep coming”
Twenty years ago, I was at a FutureSafe conference in Sydney, Australia, where Eileen McMahon of WorkSafe Victoria showed a series of graphic ads. The audience were impressed and roundly supported the use of such ads in their own States. At the time confronting ads were de rigueur as road safety campaigns had been using … Continue reading “New Work Safety Ads from Australia”
I am a Life Member of an industrial safety group and have been for many years. Safety groups have existed in Victoria for over 40 years and provide practical and independent safety advice to local communities and businesses in their area. There has rarely been any coordination between them because sometimes it is hard to … Continue reading “The Importance of Independent Safety Groups”
The Victorian Government’s investigation into level crossing safety is continuing. Yesterday the Parliamentary Committee on Road Safety ran a seminar on technological issues related to level crossings. Today (22 July 2008 ) I attended the morning session of a seminar on Fail-Safe technologies. The meat of today’s seminar was to be an open and frank …
WorkSafe Victoria has launched a new advertising campaign emphasising its role as an OHS inspectorate (click image below to view). The emphasis fits that of WorkSafe’s CEO, John Merritt, who has pledged mre inspectorate resources and enforcement in the future. The ad is clever in its structure by relieving the boss’ tension over an expected WorkSafe inspector … Continue reading “Workplace Safety Inspector Ad”