OSH Harmonisation
A number of the States – including WA, Victoria and NSW – have now written to the Federal Minister for Workplace Relations regarding their intentions to delay the implementation of harmonisation of work health and safety laws. However, the harmonisation will certainly arrive, and when it does organisations will need to be prepared. We’ve been asked multiple questions about the subject, so the attached ‘pdf’ is an update which is free to download covering where we are at present, what it all means and what...
read moreInsurance – Generation i Leaders of the Pack Luncheon
The ‘Generation i Leaders of the Pack Luncheon’ was held in Perth on the 8th November. This was a great event for younger insurance professionals, or those new to the insurance industry, to gain some insights into the challenges and opportunities that exist in insurance, and financial services more broadly. I was there to share some stories and offer some potential options for career development, along with Andrew Clarke (State Manager, Aon Risk Services Australia), Chet Richardson (Manager – Claims, CGU Insurance), Don...
read moreBusiness Continuity Management
For those of you based in WA, and looking to advance your competence in business continuity management (BCM), then look no further than the 5-day ‘Business Continuity Institute’ (BCI) Certificate Course and Examination. This will be running on either sides of a weekend here in Perth, with confirmed dates of the 23rd to the 25th November and the 28th to 29th November 2011. The course is based on the BCI’s ‘Good Practice Guidelines’ and is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the life cycle...
read moreRisk Profile: Hamish Nelson (Geotechnical Engineer)
Hamish explains to me that geotechnical engineering is concerned with ‘where structures meet the ground’. We’ve arranged to meet at J B O’Reilly’s on Cambridge Street near Subiaco to break bread, admittedly in the form of Guinness, and talk risk. He already understands that I’m not a geotechnical engineer. If that was at any time unclear, the reality becomes apparent immediately. He painstakingly scribes a drawing relating to the interaction between soil conditions and structure involved in building a ‘car dumper’. He...
read moreRisk Profile: Dr Judit Szito (Dentist)
Dr. Szito was born in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to Australia at the age of six. All of her formal schooling has been in Australia, and she graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2002. She is a dentist working at ‘Dr Jeremy Keating Dental’ located in Subiaco, . ‘From Primary School onwards, I always wanted to be a surgeon. By Year 12, I had settled on general medicine, but narrowly missed out on the score I needed to study that at University. It was my mum who suggested that I go into dentistry, with a view to...
read moreRisk Profile: Matthew Pirrottina (Cray Fisherman)
Matt is 38 years of age. He is a commercial ‘Cray Fisherman’ working off the coast of Geraldton (four hours drive north of Perth, Western Australia) and the Abrolhos Islands. He lives in Geraldton with his wife and their three children (for those on the blog list not familiar with crays, they are a highly sought after saltwater, spiny lobster. Having been out to watch Matt’s dad fish for crays, whilst I clung to his boat swinging between prayer and not wishing to empty the contents of my stomach over his vessel, I have enormous...
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