Monday, 23 October 2017

Benefits of Plant Risk Assessment

There are many reasons as to why businesses should undertake thorough plant risk assessment:
  • Reduced likelihood of workplace incidents and injuries
  • Reduced chance of prosecution – Australian Risk Services carries out assessments according to the new legislation, which ensures that advice is relevant to your current obligations
  • Can implement more robust and efficient business processes
  • Better safety profile improves attractiveness to investors and potential partners and customers
  • Ensures machines are up-to-date with the latest legislative/regulatory requirements
  • Helps provide information for use in training and assessing competency of employees in safe operation of machinery
  • Protects employees – accidents can have many knock-on effects, for example reducing workforce morale
  • Learn about industry best practice from an industry expert
  • It is the best way to get updated and a thorough understanding of the latest regulations and your compliance requirements
Broad industry experience
ARS has worked with clients across a diverse range of industries, including:
Risk Assessment Process
  • Construction
  • Food and beverage
  • Meat production and processing
  • Logistics
  • Waste management
  • Mining
  • Air transport
  • Government
This diverse experience means that we understand the hazards associated with a wide range of equipment, can think laterally and know how to provide practical guidance on how to meet regulatory requirements.
Qualified advice
The aim of the new regulations is to provide a nationally consistent framework, reducing confusion, double handling and separate process development across different jurisdictions. The transition to operating under the new regulations, however, may be difficult, requiring consultation with an industry professional.
Australian Risk Services provides a range of other services relating to the new regulations, including WHS/OHS risk assessments for confined spaces, dangerous goods, hazardous substances, manual handling, working at heights and more.
We also offer training courses, environmental auditing, and safety management system design.
For more information on plant risk assessment or any other services offered by ARS, contact us today.

Friday, 18 August 2017

Heated Driveway Systems Work

Numerous home change undertakings have a few advantages and can both enhance the appeal of your home alongside its outline capacity. Warmed garages, however, have basically one single favourable position. You got it—snow evacuation. This single quality is no little matter for a few property holders. On the off chance that you live in the cold countries, you may spend innumerable hours every winter scooping your carport. Simply listening to the words “Nor-Easter” or “Lake Effect Snow” can make numerous people recoil. Needing to scoop two, three, even four times in one day can leave northerners asking for an answer.
Regardless of the possibility that you don’t live in a district that gets hit with substantial snow, in the event that you have constrained portability and have no area kids who need to procure somewhat additional money, introducing a warmed garage can permit you to persevere through the winter with safe section to and from your home while never grabbing a scoop or starting up a snow blower.
Warmed garages are really brilliant floor warming frameworks, which can be introduced both inside and out. For open-air use, brilliant floor frameworks are very useful to the individuals who live in blanketed atmospheres, as they capacity as a snow-liquefying framework, for all intents and purposes dispensing with the requirement for physical snow evacuation. At the point when temperatures drop, warmed water and radiator fluid are pumped into the tubing, dissolving any snow that gathers on your carport. From the solace of your home, you can flip a switch and watch the snow dissolve away.
In the event that you need a warmed garage, you don’t fundamentally need to introduce an entire new carport in light of the fact that occasionally the tubing can keep running under your present one. Bear at the top of the priority list these circumstances are not common. Most of the time the garage should be tore up and supplanted in light of the fact that the establishment prepare frequently leaves the carport in shambles. Numerous components impact whether you have to have the carport supplanted including time of year, soil compaction, trees in nearness, and so forth. Supplanting the carport guarantees that the warmed garage framework has been introduced accurately. A significant number of the frameworks that are introduced under existing garages either won’t accompany guarantees or the guarantees that they do accompany won’t cover all that much.
Expense is secured in the following area, yet in the event that cost is not the worry that well being, damage, or time lost doing this tedious errand is, then think about having as another carport introduced and simply do this privilege. There are most likely some examples of overcoming adversity when introducing one of these brilliant warmth frameworks under a current carport, yet there is truly just an excess of questions to be positive about this decision. In addition, you would prefer not to become hopelessly enamoured with another framework, just to need to pay for it once more—in addition to another carport—when the garage at last disintegrates to pieces.


Friday, 7 July 2017

Dependable Plant Risk Assessment Services





The first step to establishing a systematic, pro-active approach to managing health and safety in the workplace is a comprehensive plant risk assessment.
The legislation covering OHS requirements in the workplace varies across Australia. However, moves have been made towards a nationalised system with the introduction of the new Work Health and Safety Act 2011.
Although being implemented in different phases by the states and territories, 1 January 2012 saw the commencement of the legislation in Queensland, New South Wales, Commonwealth areas, the ACT and the Northern Territory.
Existing regulations relating to plant risk assessment in other states closely mirror this legislation, and businesses will recognise the need to prepare for the introduction of the new regulations.
Depending on where you are based, the new regulations contain broadened definitions of persons with health and safety duties, along with an increased requirement for duty holders to consult with others.
PCBUs are required to eliminate risks so far as is “reasonably practicable.” When assessing whether or not sufficient effort was made to eliminate risk, the act takes into consideration not only to what you know, but what youshould know about risks and hazards in the workplace.
Thorough, objective plant risk assessment on your own work environment can be difficult. Potential risks and hazards can be overlooked by non-professional 




Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Plant Risk Assessment | Plant Safety Assessment





Plant Risk Assessment: We provide services for Plant Risk Assessment, Plant Safety Assessment, Plant Auditing, Plant Regulation plant risk assessment involves not only identifying the potential issues inherent in work processes, but also how these risks can interact.

Saturday, 7 January 2017

Get Trained in Plant Risk Assessment with our Nationally Accredited Course


We are a major player in the industry and have qualified assessors conducting over 10,000 plant assessment in Australia every year. During the last 10 years, we have been delivering Plant Risk Assessment Training to leading building and engineering firms across the country and have now developed a nationally accredited plant risk assessment training course in conjunction with WAM Training (RTO No: 22054).
The course is based on national best practices and our 20 years of experience in the business.
Course Name
Plant Risk Assessment Training
Unit Code
BSBWHS508A Manage WHS Hazards Associated With Plant
Course Description
This unit covers the skills and knowledge required to manage hazards associated with plant and to comply with WHS/OHS legislation. Topics include:
Complying with WHS/OHS legislation
Organisational policies, procedures, processes and systems incorporating the management of hazards associated with plant
Identification of hazards
Controlling of hazards
Requirements for buying and selling plant items
Registration, licencing and certification requirements
Pre-Requisite Units
N/A
Duration
2 days face-to-face, plus pre-course reading
Venue
WAM Training, 73 Doherty’s Rd, Laverton North
On-site training available upon request.
Cost
Price upon application
Participants
Maximum 20
Food/Beverages
Tea/Coffee is provided. There is also a café/takeaway located on site
Site Requirements
Casual clothing and safety boots
Material Supplied
All required material is supplied
Assessment
Trainees will be assessed using a short-answer written test, case studies, and the completion of actual plant risk assessments.
Outcome
Upon completion of this course, trainees will have the skills and knowledge required to:
Comply with WHS/OHS legislation
Identify, assess, control and manage plant hazards
Comply with registration, licencing and certification requirements
Once competence is achieved, trainees will receive a Statement of Attainment
Language, Literacy and Numeracy
Trainees need to be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to work by themselves and as part of a team, exercising judgement in the selection of equipment, services or contingency plans. Trainees must be able to utilise workplace documentation without the guidance of another person.
Health Note
The training and assessment may involve working with heavy machinery, bending, crawling and light to medium lifting.
Australian Risk Services and WAMtraining
RTO No: 22054
WAM Industrial Training Centre
2/73 Doherty’s Rd Laverton North
Paul Camilleri
Mobile: 0418461074
Bookings: 
1300 266 172
Fax: 07 3112 4182
PO Box 673
North Melbourne, Vic 3051