Year: 2024

Holiday Wishes

This edition of Insight is the final for 2024. The first edition in the New Year will be issued in February 2025. QRMC Risk Management Pty Ltd will be closing over the Christmas period, from close of business Thursday 19 December, reopening Monday 13 January 2025. QRMC wishes all our clients, supporters and readers a … Continued

What do we need to be ready for in the New Year?

2024 was a busy year for safety-related legislative change with the former Queensland Labor government introducing changes to the WHS, Electrical Safety and Resource Safety Legislation. Below are a couple of key call-outs for issues that we need to be aware of, and ready for in the New Year: HSRs and Consultation Within Queensland there … Continued

EAP provider assessment

Have you ever assessed the performance of your EAP provider, or do you simply rely on an assumption of professionalism? As we approach the end of the year with its associated Festive Season, it is worth noting that this time of the year presents an uptick in the number of mental health concerns societally. With … Continued

Climate change formalised in management systems

Earlier this year the International Standards Organisation released amendments to ISO 45001 Occupational health and safety management systems — Requirements with guidance for use and ISO 9001 Quality management systems — Requirements to require explicit consideration of climate change. In both standards, the following requirement has been added to section 4.1: The organization shall determine … Continued

Visual Communication

In the 1930s, a graphic artist was commissioned to develop the International System of Typographic Picture Education, or an ‘Isotype’, based on the belief that the world needed a unified, international visual language to support (but not replace) each of the world’s spoken languages. From the outset the primary goal of this ‘Isotype’ was to … Continued

ISO 45001 and Building a Safety Culture

With a lot of focus on ‘Safety Culture’ within organisations, a question often asked is “How does safety culture correlate with ISO 45001?” Whilst ISO 45001, as the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems, does not explicitly mention “safety culture” as a standalone term, the concept of safety culture is inherently embedded … Continued