As psychosocial health becomes an increasing focus for everyone in our industry, managing our physical and mental wellbeing, and the hazards associated with our work environment is essential to keeping us safe in the short and longer terms – and the focus of our Q4 Theme: ‘Wellbeing and Work Environment’.
Managing our ever-changing physical and mental wellbeing, and the hazards associated with our work environment is essential to keeping us safe in the short and longer term.
Follow the link to our Quarterly Theme homepage; here you’ll find links to the products, programs and tools we available related to this topic. Resources included in this section will help you:
- Improve understanding of physical and mental wellbeing,
- Increase awareness of occupational health impacts,
- Improve communication and better understand your colleagues.
Management of Heat Stress Guideline
Our Management of Heat Stress Guideline is designed to increase heat stress awareness and provide guidance on heat mitigation measures that should be implemented for managing the risks to personnel exposed to heat, with the Guideline specifically written for the frontline workforce.
Deploying this Guideline promotes an effective and consistent approach across our industry to preventing and mitigating heat stress for the entire operator, contractor and sub-contracting workforce, with the Guideline approved for deployment Australia-wide.
Materials to support immediate deployment of the Guideline are available on our website, and include:
- A video summarising the key components of the Management of Heat Stress Guideline
- FAQs
- Implementation Guide
- Heat Stress eLearn Tool
Our Heat Stress eLearn tool is available for all members to distribute for immediate download and deployment (see Implementation Guides to support HSERs to utilise this resource).
A Case Study on Origin Energy’s deployment of the Management of Heat Stress Guideline.
Health Matters
Also supporting our Q4 theme, is our Health Matters webpage. This is the place where HSERs can find help to address any health and wellbeing issues you might have in your workplace – and it’s a place where HSERs can share what you are doing to manage Health and Wellbeing of you and your colleagues.
Take the time to look around the Health Matters page. You’ll find a lot of great material here, but you’ll also find gaps. To improve health outcomes for everyone in our industry, you can share materials built by your organisation, so that others may benefit from your efforts.
Click through to our global Quarterly Theme partners, Always Safe (Norway) and Step Change in Safety (UK) to see the resources they have collated in support of this theme, with all these resources available for members.