Do you have any special plans for health & safety at your workplace this October? For those who don’t know October is Safe Work Australia Month and it is a good opportunity to highlight work, health & safety initiatives within your business. It is also a good time to highlight key hazards and risks within the business in order to heighten employee awareness and participation in safety measures.

Safe Work Australia are also running an inaugural Virtual Seminar Series (VSS)—a free online event run throughout the month of October.

The VSS showcases some of the latest work health and safety thinking, developments, innovations and research and supports the vision of the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022–the ten year framework to encourage improvements in Australia’s workplace health and safety.

The VSS is aimed at those with an interest in work health and safety and will feature live interactive panels and video presentations by work health and safety regulators, experts, business leaders and academics.

The themes for the VSS are:

· leadership and culture

· responsive and effective regulation

· agriculture and road freight transport industries, and

· small business.

If you would like more information or to register for this online event simply go to Safe Work Australia’s website and register – www.swa.gov.au. There are also smart phone apps available from the Apple or Android app stores (search for “Safe Work Australia Safety Month").