last time I buy a block splitter with a wooden handle. it broke at the blade end, but wasn't apparent due to being behind the robber shock absorber.

It wasn't until I swung up that it dislodged and I find myself with 3kg of carbon steel floating above my head with gravity impacting it. luckily it had velocity and sailed over my head and not at me.

#ohs #woodcutting

Female Presenter is at heights making planter boxes in an internal courtyard of a Children's Hospital.

It is good she is a fall harnesses and attached to a rope.

But she has so much horizontal slack that a slip will see her hit the next level before well before the rope gets taut.
#BetterHomesandGardens #OHS

Global News BC: Okanagan Humane Society managing rising number of animals in need https://globalnews.ca/news/9745317/okanagan-humane-society-rising-number-animals-in-need/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Okanaganhumanesociety #centralokanagan #HumaneSociety #Veterinary #Okanagan #Kelowna #Canada #Pets #OHS

Ban petrol lawn equipment
"Petrol leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. Bans are beginning to spread.
Virtually all small engines are two-stroke, which burn a dirtier fuel mix than vehicles do. Advocates say that in addition to the climate-changing emissions released by the engines, workers are exposed directly to their exhaust and rarely wear filters to protect their lungs. Other people complain about the noise they make, especially when so many suburban residents now work from home".
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/
#batterypowered landscaping #Equipment #FossilFuel #Noise #Pollution #OHS #Conservation #Regeneration #LandCare #Bellingen #Suburbia #so50s #Gardening

Australia fails to adequately monitor effect of agricultural chemicals in humans, report finds.
“ There are also no national sources of data on #pesticides in groundwater, urban stormwater, drinking water, #soil, or in #wildlife, the researchers found. The only long-term #monitoring of pesticides in the environment was as part of the protection of the Barrier Reef and it was limited to 22 pesticides. Globally, Australia is one of the heavier users of pesticides in food production. This is partly because of Australia’s unique conditions and #farming methods. But even these statistics are hard to find.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/03/australia-fails-to-adequately-monitor-effect-of-agricultural-chemicals-in-humans-report-finds
#Agvet #Chemicals #Regulation #OHS #Food #Safety #InTheDark #Organic ?

#OHS #OpenHardwareSummit livestream yay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xSDjUPpzLM

This playground is very cool, BUT isn’t it training #kids to believe they can trust that things that look unsafe, won’t hurt them? Bring on the next generation of crackhead engineers, I guess…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-07/risk-play-playground-city-of-melbourne-not-dangerous-safe/101622592

#Melbourne #Australia #Victoria #parenting #OHS

This playground is very cool, BUT isn’t it training #kids to believe they can trust that things that look unsafe, won’t hurt them? Bring on the next generation of crackhead engineers, I guess…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-07/risk-play-playground-city-of-melbourne-not-dangerous-safe/101622592

#Melbourne #parenting #OHS

Global News BC: Okanagan Humane Society urges public to spay and neuter pets https://globalnews.ca/news/9518731/okanagan-humane-society-spay-neuter-pets/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #NationalSpayandNeuterDay #Okanaganhumanesociety #WorldSpayandNeuterDay #OkanaganValley #Okanagancats #Kelowna #Canada #Neuter #Cats #Spay #OHS

With the recent updates across Australia's WHS regulatory landscape focusing on psychosocial hazards in the workplace, this article on psychological safety in the workplace from Harvard Business Review is timely.

What exactly is psychological safety? It’s a term that’s used a lot but is often misunderstood. In this piece, the author answers the following questions with input from Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, who coined the phrase “team psychological safety”:
1) What is psychological safety?
2) Why is psychological safety important?
3) How has the idea evolved?
4) How do you know if your team has it?
5) How do you create psychological safety?
6) What are common misconceptions?

#PeopleAndCulture #HumanResources #WorkplaceHealthAndSafety #WHS #OHS #PsychologicalSafety #PsychosocialHazards

https://hbr.org/2023/02/what-is-psychological-safety

Damning Report by by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-damning-us-report-lays-bare-amazons-worker-injury-crisis/

#labour #labourrights #OHS #amazon

What is going on in American politics today and how can history help us better understand? Would love to see you for this discussion
@OrHist Oregon Historical Society #OHS Historians & the News #HATN w/@JeremiSuri @CMcKNichols Tues Jan 10 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern remote, free, public, w/reg https://www.ohs.org/events/historians-and-the-news-jeremi-suri.cfm

RT @SafetyOz@twitter.com

#Mentalhealthatwork will become an even more significant issue in 2023, but we should remember early iterations of this hazard, such as #workplacestress. This 2012 SafetyAtWorkBlog article shows mental health thinking from a decade ago.
https://safetyatworkblog.com/2012/05/07/workplace-safety-and-the-human-condition/
#OHS #mentalhealth

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SafetyOz/status/1610003000147279875

RT @SafetyOz@twitter.com

Today’s Herald-Sun reports “#Burnout and increased workloads were the biggest reasons people wanted to quit, research from Allianz Australia found.” Both reasons are preventable hazards, but this article is not about prevention. We need real change instead of “perks”. #ohs

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SafetyOz/status/1607147365890412544

The Open Hardware Summit will held April 28 & 29, 2023 remotely and in person in NYC. https://2023.oshwa.org/
The deadline to submit a talk, workshop or demo is January 6, 2023. #opensource #opensourcehardware #ohs #oshwa

RT @PNSlipper@twitter.com

@allicat76@twitter.com Bring it on in every industry. #OHS. Australians shouldn't accept the line that it is "inevitable we will all get #COVID19". It is not inevitable if proper testing, reporting and mitigations are put in place to lower transmission. NOTE: this doesn't require lockdowns to achieve.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PNSlipper/status/1604646831241441280

Hello, my name is Nick. One year and five days ago, I was barely alive. Watch the story here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVkJJ97/ #openheartsurgery #aorticvalvestenosis #bicuspid #ohs #openheartsurgerysurvivor #4thopenheartsurgery #fourthopenheartsurgery

New South Wales and Queensland have the highest rate of dog #attacks. New South Wales recorded the highest number of dog incidents among posties with 351 cases, followed by Queensland with 281 and Western Australia with 183.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-12/qld-dog-attacks-on-australia-post-workers-increase/101760934
#pets #dogs #OHS #violence

Meter reader Kane Minion was mauled to death by #dogs last weekend. Energex says there were 142 dog-related issues from January-Dec 3 this year. There were 53 incidents in south-east Queensland https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-07/former-meter-reader-says-dog-attacks-a-daily-concern/101739160 #pets #violence #attack #pedestrians #OHS #wildlife

No subcontractor should have to die doing a job. Three #pets mauled worker to death. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-03/man-mauled-to-death-by-dogs-logan/101730890 #dogsofmastodon #dogs #OHS #safety