Fire, manual handling, heights and health workshops at Queensland Safety Show
Workshops and the practical tools needed to solve Queensland's biggest workplace safety challenges will be a drawcard of the Queensland Safety Show when it returns to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from June 16 to 18.
Visitors to Queensland Materials Handling and the Queensland Safety Show will see 7,500 square metres of specialist safety products and services presented by nearly 200 exhibitors. They will also hear directly from experts on how they can manage some of the most difficult hazards facing the state's workplaces: fire, manual handling, work at heights and obesity.
New fire regulations in the spotlight
Recent amendments to the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (BFSR) due to come into force in July and a new Queensland Development Code Mandatory Part 6.1, which took effect from January 1, will affect almost every workplace in the state. In response, a dedicated feature area at the Queensland Safety Show will host suppliers of fire preparedness training, investigation training, fire monitoring systems, closed circuit television (CCTV), intercoms, access control and security systems.
Queensland Safety Show exhibitor and supplier of an innovative online fire training system, Carla Scott of Concept Safety Systems, says the new regulations "represent a significant upgrade from the existing legislation and penalties can exist for non-compliance."
Show visitors can equip themselves with very practical fire skills. Metropolitan Fire Brigade leading firefighter, Roy Marshall, will conduct daily workshops on environmentally-friendly fire extinguisher training. For a more hands-on experience, visitors can extinguish live fires using BullEx Australia training equipment to discover how hot flames respond to different fire-fighting techniques.
Manage Queensland's biggest safety challenge: manual handling
Interactive workshops focusing on Australia's number one cause of workplace injury – manual handling – will be on offer from the Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland. Free manual tasks workshops on each the show's three days will be led by Michael Terry, an industrial physiotherapist with extensive experience treating and preventing strain injuries from manual tasks.
The Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland joins the Electrical and Communications Association Queensland and the Master Builders as industry supporters of the Queensland Safety Show.
Safe work at heights workshop
Fall prevention specialist, Carl Sachs of Workplace Access & Safety, will guide visitors through the maze of fall prevention standards, codes and legislation at this free workshop. The very practical focus of the session will include a systematic approach to reduce liability and deal with the financial issues.
Be the biggest winner
Inactivity at work is being recognised as a new workplace hazard with serious implications for worker health and productivity. Exercise physiologist Fleta Solomon of Onsite Health Solutions will explain how organisations of all shapes and sizes have rejuvenated the health of their workers without the dreaded boot-camp.
The Queensland Safety Show, Queensland Materials Handling and the co-located Queensland Safety Conference will run from Tuesday 16 to Thursday 18 June 2009 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. For more information, email safety@aec.net.au, visit www.qldsafetyshow.com.au or phone Australian Exhibitions & Conferences on 03 9654 7773.
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