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A Year of Compliance: Get Your Roles and Responsibilities Right
Safety cannot be the job of a single person. While directors and managers should be involved, they should not be bogged down with the full daily responsibility of safety management—it’s not an effective way to do things. If you’re a director, your job is to know your approach, know that it works, and make sure that it occurs. It is not to make every decision and oversee every detail in person.
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A Year of Compliance: Start With The Quick Wins
This year we’re intending to break the very large and unwieldy topic of compliance down into more digestible pieces—so bookmark our blog and keep coming back! The task of ensuring real compliance across the board is a big one and can be overwhelming. If you can commit to making and implementing one change per month, you’ll be on the right track without the overwhelm.
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Are You Supporting Your Female Team Members to Succeed?
As opportunities open up for women in all industries, including those which were previously male-dominated, there are considerations to be made for a harmonious and healthy work environment.
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Capability Uplift Is An Opportunity Not To Be Missed
When an organisation can recognise talent, nurture it, and uplift its people to progress in their roles and responsibilities, they are winning. From management responsibilities to health and safety roles to human resource responsibilities, there are usually plenty of opportunities to develop internal talent.
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Work-As-Understood: Get On The Same Page
It’s important that both parties are on the same page. When front line workers don’t understand the reason for a process or rule, things can unravel. When managers and directors don’t understand the real conditions, restrictions, and challenges of the front line work, things can unravel even faster.
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Recharge and Come Back Better: Tips For the End-of-Year Period
While there is certainly good reason for the last few weeks of the year to be extra stressful for employees, managers, and business owners alike, it’s not the ideal way to set yourself up for a happy and healthy new year. If you want to come back refreshed and ready in the new year, you need to not only wind down intentionally but make sure your holiday time fills your bucket.
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Optimise Your Implementation and Change Management
What does compliance look like in practice? What does it look like for your specific organisation and operations? How will you implement your policies on the shop floor? When it comes time to change, how do you manage it to ensure a smooth process?
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WEPR: Engaging Your Workers for Better Outcomes
To include your workers and allow them to be heard in your business is beneficial in many ways and in many areas beyond just health and safety. Engagement is a driver of success; find out why and how you can achieve better outcomes.
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Risk and Risk Management: The Rundown
Risk is a concept that’s woven throughout so many different aspects of business governance—and a lot of what we do is aimed at identifying, managing, minimising, and controlling risk.
It’s not all banana peels in walkways.
How Directors Do Their Due (Diligence)
Becoming a company director does not come with a handbook. This is a dilemma faced by many other groups of people including, notably, new parents; in both situations, you’re being thrown into the deep end without explicit instruction. People often talk about doing your “due diligence” as a director. What does it mean, exactly? That’s what we’re hoping to answer in this post.