myosh Webinars

Heat Hangover – the heat-related illness affecting your workforce

Heat stress surveys within a range of Australian industries have identified fatigue, irritability, headaches, cramps and nausea as common outcomes of working in hot conditions ^1,2. Workers indicated that such symptoms would not prompt them to seek medical treatment and are generally not reported, as symptoms developed towards the end of, or following the work shift and are self-treated. Both the type of symptoms and the latency between exposure and symptoms, parallel those of an alcoholic hangover. Hence, we use the term ‘heat hangover’ to describe these symptoms, with the term gaining acceptance within a wide variety of workforces.

Heat hangovers impact the post-work setting through negative impacts on sense of well-being, sleep, appetite and family relationships, while workers that frequently report heat hangover symptoms are more likely to limit not only work rate, but also their quality of work ². Aside from the productivity issues, the impact of heat hangover symptoms on vigilance, decision making and execution of physical skills are areas of interest. Negative impact on these factors may explain the prevalence of workplace accidents in the hottest months of the year ³. This session will detail the impact of heat exposure on work and post-work settings, highlighting the role of heat hangovers and control strategies to mitigate impacts.

Safety II Professionals: The future of our role in organisations

Presented by David Provan and Hosted by myosh HSEQ Software

Summary:
Organisations invest considerable resources in dedicated safety roles, teams and entire safety departments in the pursuit of understanding and managing safety risk. However, 30 years of research concludes that safety practitioners are largely not performing this role effectively in practice. This webinar will explain how we can use emerging theories of Safety II, Resilience Engineering and Safety Differently to transform the purpose, tasks and activities of safety practitioners to help them create foresight about the changing shape of risk, and facilitate action in their organisations before people are harmed.

About David:
Dr. David Provan is the Managing Director of Forge Works safety consultancy, and a part-time research fellow at Griffith University. He has a 20 year career as a Safety Executive across the rail, construction and oil and gas industries. His academic research interests include the operationalisation of Safety II and Resilience Engineering, and what it means for the current and future role of safety professionals within organisations. David is the co-host of ‘the safety of work’ podcast with Dr. Drew Rae which discusses safety science research findings in a practical way, so that organisations can move further towards evidence based safety practice.

ISO 45001 : Worth The Wait

Tens of thousands of businesses around the globe are already certified, and it is expected that over 500,000 organisations will take up the standard internationally over the next decade.

Join Andy Holmes as he discusses the transition to 45001.

myosh Podcast - Investigations Differently; A Safety Differently Approach to Incident Investigation

Listen to Mark Alston as he discusses practical solutions to incident investigation based on the theory of ‘Safety Differently.

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