In safety management, many organisations believe that passing compliance audits equates to having a safe workplace. However, this assumption can lead to a dangerous gap between compliance and real safety. While compliance is important, it focuses on meeting regulatory requirements, essentially checking boxes. Safety assurance, on the other hand, dives deeper by ensuring that the controls designed to prevent incidents are truly effective, functional, and reliable when needed.

This article explores the difference between compliance audits and true safety assurance, highlighting why a focus on compliance alone can create false confidence in safety systems.

Have you ever been involved in a safety investigation where you felt like you were being interrogated?

You felt like you've done something wrong, and the intention was more to find out how you should be punished than how your organisation could learn. 

Sadly many of us have either had that or heard about others that have had that particular experience, yet the fact is that such an approach does very little to improve safety.  

Workers in Gladstone, particularly those under high-risk jobs and assignments, have been caught carrying invalid licenses eventually after their course evaluations that did not meet the standards set by the respective workplace health and safety accreditation.

The Australian government has launched serious inquiries into the drayage practices on five of the country’s major ports that could urge considerable changes for higher mandated levels on new work rules and driver pay.

For the second year in a row and based on a per capital income, serious injuries reported on ACT constructions sites continue to rise. This came two years after a major report on surrounding site safety called for a considerable reduction of 35 percent.