Vital Chemical Brisbane-based has switched from a paper-based HSEQ management system to cloud based software that has enabled it to realise a number of business operational improvements – including recertification to the latest Quality and Safety standards in less than six weeks. Australian owned and operated since 1977, Vital Chemical specialises in formulating novel solutions…

Another milestone for Safety for Life as Sherm Software has been in the market for six years today! Making the decision to develop a Safety software program for the Australian market was the best idea I think I’ve ever had! The idea came after my fathers death in 2010. I was sitting home alone on…

Health and safety in your workplace is an ever evolving and changing entity. The goal is to keep improving on what you do. No more “this is the way it’s always been done” attitude! Here are five essential ways to improve work health and safety in your organisation. Leadership There is nothing worse than a…

How often do you take a good hard look at your place of work and assess how safe it is? Do you walk past hazards and think “I’ll get around to doing something about that one day”? When does that day come? By walking past and ignoring that hazard, you are accepting that someone is…

We all know what Russian Roulette is: the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s own head. It’s incredibly dangerous and quite frankly, reckless! But many business owners are playing Russian Roulette with their risk management and…

Since the ancient Egyptians first started using papyrus over 4,000 years ago, paper has played a humble (but critical) support role in capturing, recording and sharing human achievements. Where would great literature be without the power and might of paper? It touches our lives in so many ways every day. But our lives and the…