Safe Work Australia Week
19 - 25 October 2008
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Safe work is about preventing workplace incidents and managing injuries
During the week, WorkSafe and WorkCover WA encourages Western Australian workplaces, occupational safety and health organisations and practitioners and rehabilitation providers to have an extra focus on safety and health and injury management.
Workplaces right across Australia get involved by organising events and activities during the week.
2008 Safe Work Australia Week Breakfast Launch
Join Clinical Professor Fiona Wood for breakfast on 17 October 2008 at the Burswood on Swan Reception Centre. Register now.
Register your activity
Get thinking about a safety or injury management event or activity for your workplace now! Suggested activities.
Receive a free poster kit when you register your workplace activity with WorkSafe. To register call 08 9327 8608, or save and complete this form and email it to promotions@docep.wa.gov.au or send it by facsimile to 08 9321 6658.
All registered events or activities will be listed on this web page. Organisations that register before 1 Octoer 2008 go in the draw to win tickets to the Perth Work Safe 2008 Forum or a Mine Safety Roadshow.
2008 registered workplace activities
- Aegis Aged Care - Manual handling and dealing with challenging behaviour seminars
- Bartter Steggles - Toolbox meetings, safety quiz competition and a nutrition and health newsletter
- Bedingfield Lodge - Incident investigation workshop
- Bradken Mining - Invite doctors and nurses to discuss health issues with staff and conduct a mock evacuation drill
- Bradken Resources (Mineral processing Henderson) - Health check assessments for personnel
- Bridgetown Hospital - Daily safety quiz questions and a safety poster display
- Brightwater Care Group - Encourage employees to stretch before commencing work to reduce the risk of manual handling incidents
- Challenger TAFE - Meet the OSH team with a focus on understanding Material Safety Data sheets and the importance of chemical safety
- City of Cockburn Council - Toolbox meetings, manual handling refresher training and safety poster displays
- Craigcare - Hazard hunt competition and safe work crosswords and puzzles
- Cockburn Cement Operations - Toolbox talks, poster displays, "find the hazard" exercises and issuing of work socks with safety messages
- Dampier Port Authority - Healthy lifestyle activities including a presentation and educational talk from a nutritionist
- Department for Child Protection - Stress management and healthy lifestyles promotion in the workplace
- Department of Agriculture and Food WA and Gillamii Centre (Cranbrook) - Morning tea with a focus on working hours
- Department of Agriculture and Food (Derby) - Manual handling training workshop
- Department of Agriculture and Food (Bentley) - Fire evacuation drill, safe tyre changing sessions and a "hazard" hunt
- Department of Consumer and Employment Protection - Meet your safety rep morning teas, intranet safety quiz and a create a safety slogan competition
- Department of Health - Meet your safety rep morning tea
- Department of Heath, North Metro Ambulatory Care - Health and safety bulletin, an OSH suggestion box and healthy living posters
- DORIC Construction - Toolbox meeting on manual handling
- Downer EDI Works - Promotion of safety awareness in the workplace
- Esperance Senior High School - Library display and safety quizzes
- Glengarry Private Hospital - Safety BBQ, display of safety posters and daily email OSH bulletins
- Golden Egg Farms - Safety video screening, quiz and lunch
- Great Southern TAFE - Meet your OSH committee and safety reps morning tea and a mock emergency evacuation
- Hummeston Lodge - Staff education week involving low and high care residents
- Independent Living Centre of WA Inc - Increased exercise program including walking and swimming, yoga and stretching exercises, emergency evacuation drill and a "spot the hazard" activity
- Joondalup Health Campus - Safety BBQ, display of safety posters and daily email OSH bulletins
- King Edward Memorial Hospital - Workplace inspections with emphasis on creating a safe working environment
- Main Roads Western Australia - OSHtoberfest safety presentations, workshops, competitions and activities for employees' families
- Melville Cares Inc - Launch of new hazard risk control registration plan
- Mercy Aged Care - Overview of ultraviolet hand washing procedures, display of safety posters and toolbox meetings
- Mercy Hospital - Meet your OSH team morning tea
- Narrogin Agricultural College - OSH training course for students
- North Metropolitan Area Health Service Mental Health - Minimising aggression in the workplace presentation
- Oz Minerals - Fire extinguisher training for all staff
- Parkerville Children and Youth Care - Workplace hazards activity and a work safety poster competition
- Pioneer Water Tanks (Australia) Pty Ltd - Launch of new cut prevention program
- Roofing 2000 - Harness testing, distribution of safety handouts and Safe Worker Awards
- Princess Margaret Hospital - Workplace inspections with emphasis on creating a safe working environment
- Shire of Ashburton - Safe Work Week bbqs to promote the importance of wearing PPE
- Shire of Busselton - Health and safety awareness talks / workshops, fire evacuation drill and corporate massages
- Shire of Capel - Celebration of 365 accident free days
- Silcar Communications - Safety scavenger hunt, mock Spill Drills and safety chats with staff in the field by management
- Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (Ward G63) - Healthy lifestyle choices promotion and a healthy eating afternoon tea
- Southern Cross Hospital - Lunch with an identifying hazards presentation
- South West Aboriginal Medical Service - All staff Safety Day with various activities including a fire and evacuation drill, safety quizzes and lunch
- St John of God Hospital (Subiaco) - Manual handling expo day, display board and an organised walk
- The ORS Group - Safe work quizzes and emergency procedures review
- Toll Virtual WA - OSH awareness competition
- Total Marine Technology Pty Ltd - Safety activities and BBQ
- Uniting Church Homes (Balcatta) - Short "safety" story competition
- Uniting Church Homes (East Fremantle) - SWA Week morning tea with quizzes, health matters discussion, "spot the hazards" exercise and an OSH suggestion box
- URS Australia - Manual handling workshop, "Stretch and Flex" and yoga programs
- Wattle Hill Lodge - Morning tea and healthy eating presentation by a dietician
- WestNet Infrastructure Group and WestNet Energy - Safety presentations and seminars
- Western Power - Fatigue management and body fit workshop and workplace electrical safety inspection (WESI)
- Woolworths Esperance - Review of correct manual handling procedures
- Woolworths Morley - Review of correct manual handling procedures and encourage staff to "Spot the hazard and make the change"
- Worksite Fitness and Rehabilitation - YogaAid challenge
2007 registered workplace activities