Safety still the key issue for Australian OHS managers

Comps is a Australasian provider of business software products and services.

In 2010, almost 90 percent of OHS managers cited safety as being of critical or high importance to their organisation, according to the survey.

A further 86 percent were concerned with finding ways of highlighting to senior management the value of safety as a key business driver.

More than one in four (26 per cent) of organisations still use manual and paper-based processes to manage their OHS strategy, according to the company.

Results show contractor management and environment compliance ranked equal second in OHS priorities for 2011, nominated as being of high or critical importance by 80 percent of OHS managers.

Other leading priorities remained consistent with 2010, with more than three quarters of respondents nominating risk mitigation and the new AS/NZS ISO31000 standard, OHS training, understanding and planning for the new OHS harmonisation laws, and reducing the cost of injury management as priorities for management in 2011.

According to Moshe Woods, sales director at Salvus ComOps, in the three years that ComOps has been running this survey, it has found that the number of areas requiring OHS input just keeps growing.

“Every year, OHS managers are being asked to do more in line with organisational aims to improve productivity and enhance competitiveness and sustainability,”

“It’s clear that organisations which have integrated safety and risk management systems on board will have the capacity to handle ongoing legislative challenges and the management of an increasingly mobile and flexible workplace environment.” said Woods.

20 April 2011
Safe to Work