{"id":3394,"date":"2022-04-28T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anitechgroup.com\/au\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T01:51:21","slug":"occupational-hygiene-how-your-business-can-demonstrate-a-commitment-to-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitechgroup.com\/au\/blog\/occupational-hygiene-how-your-business-can-demonstrate-a-commitment-to-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Hygiene: How Your Business Can Demonstrate A Commitment To Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

The COVID pandemic has not only resulted in organisations across Australia altering their operational practices to meet new safety compliance obligations, it has also seen business\u2019 develop clearer processes for informing the public of their compliant practices. For example, many companies will now visibly display signs informing visitors that they must wear a mask whilst onsite, instructing them to use the QR code check-in, and alerting them to any other responsibilities they have whilst onsite, to ensure the premises remains safe. These clear strategies work at demonstrating to the public that the business has identified potential occupational hygiene risks, and taken active steps to mitigate them, thus ensuring their worksites always remain safe spaces for everyone. This article will discuss what companies can be doing to meet their occupational hygiene<\/a> obligations, thus demonstrating to the wider business community that they have a commitment to safety.<\/p>\n

Occupational hygiene is a scientific approach to occ. health and safety<\/h2>\n

Business\u2019 can successfully address the above issues by ensuring their occupational hygiene practices meet their compliance obligations. Occupational hygiene utilises science and technology to measure the extent of staff exposure to all potentially hazardous onsite environmental risks, to assess whether the risks are within compliant levels. If not, business\u2019 work at creating control measures to both bring the risks to compliant levels, and ensure they stay there.<\/p>\n

Although the pandemic has seen a heightened focus concerning certain worksite health and safety risks, such as proper social distancing practices and wearing masks to minimise exposure risks, occupational hygiene addresses the full extent of onsite environmental risks, including dust exposure<\/strong>, poor air quality<\/strong>, overheating<\/strong>, safe chemical handling<\/strong>, noise exposure risks<\/strong>, poor ergonomic layouts, <\/strong>and so on.<\/p>\n

All business\u2019 have an obligation to ensure that the full extent of occ. hygiene risks have been identified at their worksites, and that appropriate control measures have been implemented to ensure they remain within compliant levels. An effective way to address this issue is by contracting a certified occupational hygienist <\/strong>to visit your worksite and conduct a thorough occupational hygiene audit <\/strong>of the premises.<\/p>\n

An occupational hygienist is a skilled professional trained at identifying the full extent of onsite occupational hygiene risks, by using scientific processes to measure whether they are within compliance levels, and helping business\u2019 develop effective control measures for ensuring the risks achieve and maintain compliant levels.<\/p>\n

By undergoing an occupational hygiene audit, business\u2019 will be able to:<\/p>\n