Top 10 Strategies to Improve Workplace Safety at Your Storage Facility

There are many reasons to dedicate time and resources to training your staff and increasing your health and safety knowledge. Increased hazard and risk awareness and management through safety training can not only keep your people safe but also help protect you from prosecution in the event of injury or incident. It’s a legal obligation to provide information, instruction, and training under various Acts across Australia and New Zealand.

Introducing safety training and growing your knowledge can create a strong workplace culture. When employees see that you are dedicating time to safety, they know you take it seriously. This can also lead to better employee engagement, which can help reduce turnover and increase productivity.

Explore all our OHS resources in the Member Portal, including a customisable health and safety manual template, 10-part safety training modules, and safe work instructions to help manage common workplace hazards. And as always our OHS Help Desk is here to assist!

Here are some key strategies to help you build on and improve workplace safety at your storage facility:

• Make safety a value within your business and commit to proactively managing risks in your workplace.
• Prepare or update your Health & Safety Manual with the SSAA customisable template.
• Ensure safety roles and accountabilities have been allocated, communicated and are clearly understood.
• Identify ways your people could get hurt at work, put things in place to control or eliminate the risk and document this process as part of your risk assessment in your Health and Safety Manual.
• Take our Safety Simplified 10-part training course to better understand workplace health and safety obligations and guidelines.
• Review our industry-specific Safe Work Instructions (SWIs) to see what SWIs you need to support safe work practices at your facility. Tailor them to suit your facility and your business needs.
• Embed safety into existing practices – don’t make it an ‘add-on’ – you can integrate it into what you already do.
• Plan ahead – List all of the “safety” things you do (test/tag, emergency drills, workplace inspections), diarise them and ensure they get done!
• Don’t forget that safety isn’t just about hazards and hard risks – psychological safety is equally as important.
• Reach out if you need support through the OHS Help Desk

Take advantage of our SSAA Member-only OHS Resources