The Safety Dimensions Blog
The link between WHS & your bottom line
Evidence shows that organisations who invest in health and safety culture have a competitive advantage. A study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine looked at the financial growth of public companies that scored highly in the...
Safety programs needs hearts and minds to succeed
One of the most difficult things about creating a strong safety culture is engaging the hearts and minds of everyone in your organisation to take ownership of safety - regardless of their title or job function. Even with excellent systems and processes and...
What makes good adult learning?
We work everyday with large companies with diverse groups of learners and talk a lot about what makes good adult learning. How do you build and facilitate really great learning experiences? It's common to have group of learners in our training who work on the...
Financial Fundamentals – Making Sense of the Numbers
Understanding the numbers often creates a feeling of dread in leaders who are experts in their field, but havent come from a financial background. From understanding budgets, profitability and financial jargon, the ability and confidence to understand the money...
Leadership Excellence at Downer (LEaD1)
ARCHIVAL ARTICLE Leadership Excellence At Downer (LEaD1) Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. It works closely with its customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure and facilities. The Group employs...
10 Insider Tips to Rock Your Presentations
From Toolbox Talk To Boardroom Squawk - 10 Insider Tips to Rock Your Presentations Whether youre a leader, salesperson or trainer, at some stage most of us need to deliver a presentation at work or do some public speaking. Great presenting skills help us to influence...
Low Near Miss Reporting – Good Sign or Failure?
We have a range of programs that will train your people in hazard identification and risk management which we can tailor specifically to your industry organisational needs. Training can be taken as individual units of competency, or as part of one of our accredited...
Safety Journey at Hitachi Construction Machinery
Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia (HCMA), part of the global giant Hitachi, is a leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. Headquartered in Japan with over 20,000 staff globally, Hitachi is a highly diversified company that operates eleven...
When Enhancing Safety Culture Heats Up – Ducab Dubai
By Dr Paul Johnston. Lead Consultant and Facilitator Safety Dimensions recently had an opportunity to expand our relationship with Ducab [the Dubai Cable Company, a leading manufacturer of cabling], assisting them in enhancing their HSE culture via a...
The Safety Journey With Costa Group
Costa Group is Australia's largest horticultural company and a major supplier of produce to food retailers. With over 3,500 hectares of farmed land across Australia and more than 6,000 employees during peak seasonal periods, Costa values their employees and...
The Alarming Cost Of Stress
Safe Work Australia reports that the costs of mental stress-related claims in Australia is more than $10 billion per year. And it is estimated that the effects of stress on those who are at work but not performing to their potential costs Australian businesses a...
Dealing With Stress Programs
Dealing With Stress Programs Stress comes in many forms, sometimes positive and useful for peak performance and sometimes counterproductive when built up over a period of time. Stress shows up as higher absenteeism, higher workcover claims, poor performance, bullying...