Imagine working with cranes, heavy equipment rigging, hoist operations, and working at heights. Scary, right? Those are just some of the high-risk operations that our workers have to do on the daily – constantly exposing themselves to safety hazards.
With danger at the forefront – it takes not only the spunky grit and backbone of the worker to survive challenging workplace settings. Assurance from a trusted labour recruitment agency that their safety and security matters is just as important. Get a construction ticket today.
Read on to understand why on-site safety is important and why you should trust Labor Solutions for your hiring needs:
1. Safety First!
From the get-go, our Workplace Health and Safety Manager and other labour officers continuously check on the workers – assessing their safety and security awareness and competency. We select workers who are qualified and experienced in the type of business that our host clients operate in. We ensure that they are able to undertake the work safely.
2. Safety Does Not Happen By Accident
Aside from their existing skillset, we encourage growth by exposing them to a number of training programs. By undergoing these programs, our workforce can now identify and handle any situation that might pose as a threat to their safety.
Some examples of the training we organise include:
✔ First Aid
✔ Working Safely at Heights
✔ Confined space
✔ Manual Handling and more
Optimising safety is part of our goal. This is why we make sure that our workforce is well-trained in workplace health and safety measures, meet the required competency, equipped with the appropriate safety gear, and show up to work every day until the project is accomplished.
3. Strong Safety Culture
Safety is not just a set of rules we follow to prevent danger, safety is our way of living!
In our nature of business, it is essential to develop a strong safety culture early on. Since safety is one of our goals, we make sure that this attitude is not only exclusive to us and our workforce. We extend this attitude to you, our working partners, to create a solid foundation towards a safe working environment.
4. Striving to Better Safety Standards
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. But it could always be better, wouldn’t you agree?
In the active pursuit of improvement, our labour recruitment agency consults with workplace health and safety regulators like WorkCover on ways to enhance work health and safety. With this partnership, we have gained licenses and registration for potentially dangerous work. Further, we also deploy a team to investigate workplace incidents and many more.
5. Strict Safety Measures
If you are as serious about safety as we are, then it’s safe to say that we speak the same safety language.
Our workplace health and safety systems here at Labor Solutions are compliant to the standards set by the Office of Industrial Relations Queensland’s Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011. This includes the following provisions:
The Workforce Selection Process
– Conducting safety-focused selection processes (face-to-face interviews and reference checks)
– Pre-employment medical testing and screening
– Safety attitude questionnaires
The Safety and Protection Briefings
– Safety induction training (online and onsite)
– Signed workforce code of conduct agreement
– Safety booklet and personal safety card
– Instantaneous safety reporting system (via text, email and/or online)
6. We Take the Extra Mile
Our safety practices would not be complete without cooperation from your end. After all, it takes the agency, the workforce, and the workplace to complete a project. It is, thus, inevitable to implement the following steps:
Acquisition of a Job Description
And a detailed one at that! This is the information of the job to be carried out by our staff, including details about:
– plant or equipment to be operated
– materials and substances to which the worker could be exposed
– specific hazards associated with any operation or activity
Additional Safety Processes
It would be difficult to gauge the potential safety hazards of a place if we don’t know what it looks like. Safety checks and corresponding safety assessment of the actual site is therefore necessary. This would involve:
– Robust incident management, reporting, and investigations
– Regular safety audits
– Injury management/return to work program
– Detailed registers of potential hazards and control measures
Monitoring the workplace
We take the extra mile by making sure that even after the initial site inspection, we still have means of monitoring the workplace. We do this to ensure that health and safety requirements are being implemented as expected and no new or potential risks to health and safety have arisen.
You can use information about the work environment to determine whether an employer is operating within a high-risk industry or an industry that has risks requiring specific control measures and operating certificates.
Danger is indeed, everywhere. However, there are many ways in which it can be avoided. We are a labour recruitment agency that is dedicated to finding the best construction workers that will be an asset to your business. In doing so, we never compromise the safety of our workforce in any project.
Every minute counts when it comes to your business. Talk to labour hire specialists today!
Sources:
(1) Master Builders Association NSW
(2) NSW SafeWork