WorkSafe is hosting a breakfast for Bendigo?s small business operators on 16 February ahead of a campaign of targeted inspections beginning later this month.
The director of WorkSafe?s Manufacturing, Logistics and Agriculture Program, Ross Pilkington said the breakfast at Bendigo Performing Arts Centre (7:30 am - 9:00 am) would give business operators the information needed to improve safety before site visits from February 27 to March 2.
You can book a place at the free WorkSafe breakfast by emailing Vicki Naughton (vicki_naughton@worksafe.vic.gov.au) by February 13.
?If employers have ensured safety issues are addressed before an inspector arrives, the visit will be relatively quick and there?ll be no need for enforcement activity.
?Unfortunately many people don?t take the opportunity to deal with these unsafe conditions, and as a result end up with a longer visit.?
Mr Pilkington said WorkSafe inspectors would ensure employers understood health and safety requirements and the obligation to help injured personnel to return to work.
?During the 2011 SafeTowns campaign, WorkSafe visited 1546 workplaces and issued 2118 improvement notices for health and safety and accident compensation breaches.
?We want to see an improvement on those numbers in 2012. By giving people advance warning, we shouldn?t see people adopting a ?she?ll be right? attitude or waiting until a WorkSafe inspector walks in.?
Bendigo businesses can use WorkSafe?s publication 12 ways to make small business safer as a starting point for their safety improvement catch-up work.
There is also information on WorkSafe?s website (www.worksafe.vic.gov.au) and help is available from the advisory service (1800 136 0890.)
A free, three-hour consultancy service from an independent safety specialist can also help small businesses deal with safety issues.
?Over the past five years, treating and rehabilitating injured Bendigo-area workers has cost local businesses $41-million. This adds to business costs through higher workplace injury insurance premiums and lost productivity.
?For small businesses, local communities and the families of the more than 2,300 people who?ve been hurt over that time, those incidents can be devastating.
?Some businesses and workers need to change the way they think about what they might see as minor issues around the workplace.
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