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More than 50 per cent of medium sized businesses sign up to free advisory sessions

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland’s medium sized business initiative has proved successful, with more than half of medium sized businesses participating in wave one taking up the opportunity to be involved in the free advisory sessions on offer.

More than 70 advisory sessions were held across the state in recent weeks, and WHSQ inspectors and advisors running the sessions say that attendees were enthusiastic about learning and adapting tools and techniques to develop safe work practices within their own workplaces.

The free advisory sessions enabled businesses to talk with workplace health and safety experts to get their workplaces in top shape BEFORE inspections were carried out.

Those businesses which attended the advisory sessions were given one month to prepare for the mandatory inspections that are being conducted between May and September 2010.

Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspectors advise those businesses that didn’t attend an advisory session to visit the Workplace Health and Safety Queensland website to download the online tools, resources and checklists available to prepare for the inspections which commenced in April 2010.

Completing the medium sized business initiative checklist BEFORE the inspectors visit can save businesses time on the day of the inspection, making the visits shorter and easier for them. It can also help businesses identify problem areas within their health and safety management system so improvements can be made.

The initiative, which for the first time will see every medium sized business in the state audited over workplace health and safety, is being held in two waves.

The first wave, which started on 1 March 2010, saw 100 per cent of the advisory sessions booked out, with nearly 3000 people attending.

Medium sized businesses which were not contacted in wave one of the initiative, will be contacted as part of wave two later in 2010 via a letter in the mail.

For further in formation on the medium sized business initiative visit the Workplace Health and Safety Queensland website www.worksafe.qld.gov.au or call the Workplace Health and Safety Infoline on 1300 369 915.