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managing directors column
putting the environment in the E (HSE)
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We are living through the greatest ecological challenges of our lifetime, with destructive fires in 2019-2020, and now with floods that no one has ever experienced before. Increasing frequency of extreme weather events indicates global warming's effects have begun to manifest themselves.
For me, the question is where is the E in HSE? Integrating environmental management into the workplace safety strategy has been a corporate priority. The benefits of this approach are that it allows a multidisciplinary approach to influencing work as it is done. For environmental protection, the question then becomes what is the material focus and effort that is being delivered and sustained?
From my experience and observation, we have moved the environmental effort to an administrative compliance function, where the focus is primarily on the single issue of CO2 reduction and management. While CO2 reduction is a worthwhile activity, there are other equally important environmental issues, such as biodiversity, ocean fish population loss, coral reef loss, deforestation, and the list goes on.
Over the last 40 years, I have seen material improvements in workplace safety, largely because of the combined efforts of great design and engineering and human factors. By analysing work as done, safety professionals are increasingly providing insights on safety. We could extend this vision to consider environmental impacts. In order to implement environment-centred design, we can use the tools we have developed for human-centred design, which begins with empathy for the environment.
The time has come to reexamine our role in environmental stewardship and place environment-centred design at the centre of health safety and environment work we do for our organisations.
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new team member
tyler olney
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We are excited to announce that Tyler Olney has joined our Melbourne team as a Systems Enabler.
She has experience in health, safety and continuous improvement across food, industrial and medical sectors in both Australia and New Zealand. Tyler has worked at a variety of companies from small businesses to large multinational corporations. She has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) majoring in Chemistry and Biology, certification in Project Management.
Tyler has often worked in roles that bridge the gap between front line operators and senior management, she has seen the gaps that occur when these people do not understand how their decisions impact other parts of the organisation. She enjoys closing this gap, bringing an organisation closer together. Tyler has a passion for building relationships and utilising people and their expertise to build strong and robust systems, having a well-designed system in place ensures that any future opportunities are taken and challenges can be overcome.
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new collaboration opportunity
due diligence index - safety
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Art of Work’s Managing Director Kelvin Genn, in conjunction with Professor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University and Clyde & Co’s Global Head of Safety and Managing Partner – Australia, Michael Tooma, has developed the innovative Due Diligence Index - Safety (DDI-S).
This game-changing index is set to be a fixture in the future of work worldwide and will replace outdated safety measures that not only provide poor insights to executives and boards about the true safety performance of their organisation but can lead to devastating safety outcomes. Outcomes that not only severely impact the health and lives of workers, but further down the line, impact the ability of an organisation to withstand safety incidents and can trigger the personal liabilities of executives who don’t have the foresight to adopt and implement an approach to measure what actually matters to keep workers safe.
"TransGrid is proud to be part of the leading industry group (led by Clyde and Co and Art of Work) trialling DDI-S.” Krista-Lee Fogarty, Head of HSE, TransGrid
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