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What You Need to Know About Hard Hats
24 Mar, 2021We’ve trained ourselves to look at the label’s expiration date on medicines, milk, bread, and other perishable foods. But we also know that some of these dated consumables can still go bad before their time if not handled properly. For example, your glass of cold milk can sour quickly if left in the hot sun....
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5 Signs You Should Replace Your Safety Glasses
21 Jan, 2021While the Australian Standards do not indicate a set replacement schedule for protective eyewear, at some point your safety glasses will need to be replaced. Whether it’s from normal wear and tear, or changes to your circumstances, here are five signs that it’s time to replace your safety specs. 1. You have recently changed...
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What to Look For in a Full-Body Harness
14 Jan, 2021Once it’s been established that there is a requirement to work at height, the right work methods need to be developed and suitable fall protection equipment selected for the job at hand. The most crucial element of someone’s personal protective equipment is the full-body harness, which connects the worker to the fall protection system. Of...
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Asbestos lurks in more places than you'd think
25 Nov, 2020What's asbestos? Asbestos is a mineral found in nature that is made up of millions of fibres. Until the mid to late 1980s, asbestos was included in building materials because it’s resistant to heat and corrosion. Asbestos was also included in plant and equipment manufactured and imported up to 2003. Asbestos is still commonly used...
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Sudden Cardiac Arrest can strike anytime. Are you prepared?
18 Nov, 2020Sudden Cardiac Arrest Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the leading cause of sudden death in Australia, ahead of prostate cancer, bowel cancer, breast cancer and road deaths. Over 30,000 people die from Sudden Cardiac Arrest every single year and 75% of these occur outside of the hospital setting. A significant proportion of these fatalities occur in...
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What Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Means and How to Calculate It
11 Nov, 2020The global importance of Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) has grown substantially in the process industries over the years. However, SIL is still a somewhat ambiguous concept that often is misinterpreted and incorrectly implemented. In order to fully understand SIL and its implications, it is important to grasp the overarching concept known as Functional Safety, and how...
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Eye Injuries: Have Foresight For Sight
4 Nov, 2020An alarming number of all reported eye injuries occur in the workplace, ranging from mild eye strain to more severe injuries with the potential to cause permanent damage, vision loss and blindness. Protecting workers from eye injuries can be a challenge. However, with the use of proper eyewear, it is estimated that 90% of recorded...
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It's A Sign - Keep Your Workplace Safe
28 Oct, 2020Safety signs come in all shapes, colours and sizes - and with a variety of signal words, too. Did you know that there's a difference between "Warning" and "Danger" signs? As stockists of all Brady Australia signs (with over 460 signs on our website!) we can guarantee that no matter what you need, we can get you...
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Is Your First Aid Kit Prepared For Summer?
21 Oct, 2020With summer and the beautiful warm weather that makes you want to go outside creeping ever closer, it's important to make sure you and your first aid kit are prepared for all kinds of emergencies. Of course we all need to replace/refill our first aid kit consumables regularly, but summer presents different issues than other seasons, making...
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Regulations Around Confined Spaces
14 Oct, 2020A confined space includes any enclosed or partially enclosed space that: is not designed or intended primarily to be occupied by a person is, or is designed or intended to be, at normal atmospheric pressure while a person is in the space is or is likely to be a risk because of the atmosphere, contaminants...
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