Elevating Emergency Preparedness in Healthcare Facilities: The PEEP Paradigm
By David Gilmore, Director, EvacServices In healthcare, emergencies are not hypothetical they are a certainty. Fire alarms, power failures and internal incidents each bring unique challenges to patient safety. Unlike commercial environments, hospitals and aged care facilities must consider people who may be immobile, disoriented or dependent on life-sustaining equipment. This complexity is exactly why […]
Increasing Tenant Engagement on Workplace Safety
Ensuring emergency planning compliance requires teamwork, and everyone in the facility has a role to play in preparing their site for any emergency. While facility managers are ultimately responsible for the safety of their site, tenants and general occupants also have an obligation to ensure their tenancy’s compliance with workplace safety laws. However, getting all […]
Is Your Business Prepared to Manage Natural Disasters?
Natural disasters, such as cyclones, can be fore-cast while other emergencies can happen without warning such as earthquakes fires, and floods. An emergency plan is the most effective process to follow to avoid injuries and loss of life in the event of any catastrophe. As an example, Hurricane Harvey was just the beginning of a […]
How to Keep a Safety-Focused Organisation
Australia is prone to many natural disasters It is best to prepare a plan and procedure and have a training regime in place to keep your business and employees safe by turning your company into a safety-focused organisation How to get your employees in a safety-focused organisation involved in preparation for a disaster? The duty […]
Five Tips You Should Know to Assemble the Best Evacuation Procedure
Emergencies don’t keep to a schedule – They can happen at any time, any day. Thus, it’s important to develop an evacuation procedure that suits your workplace to ensure that all employees can exit your building safely in times of emergency. Here are five tips on how to assemble the best evacuation procedure Know your […]
Emergency Procedure: The Secret to Good Safety Culture
A well-established emergency procedure is one of the foundations of a safe work environment. Way beyond ensuring your site’s compliance with emergency planning legislation and standards, it’s also an effective means to uphold the safety and protection of tenants and personnel in your care. A work environment that develops a plan to fulfil its occupational […]
How Emergency Planning Upholds Safety Culture
Safety Culture – What is it? According to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland, safety culture is an organisational culture that puts premium importance on safety beliefs, perceptions, values, and attitudes shared by people within the company. Simply put, it is “the way we do things here”. If one of your goals this year is to […]
What cyclone Debbie taught us about Disaster Preparedness
After two weeks of battering from ex-cyclone Debbie, some communities have started shifting the focus towards the restoration of properties and facilities. Although that is an important aspect of recovery, we should also find ways to reduce our vulnerability to future natural disasters. Strengthening emergency planning efforts to focus on disaster preparedness is one effective way […]
Why Emergency Planning Should be on your Priority List
Recent emergencies and natural disasters all over the world highlight the critical role of an emergency plan in mitigating damages from natural disasters. Compliance with strict safety and work safety regulations has saved countless of lives and properties from further destruction and distress, proving the need for disaster preparedness. Is an emergency plan one of your […]
Emergency Committees: Ensuring Effective Communication in a Disaster
Timely dissemination of information can save lives and properties during a calamity. An emergency plan will be futile if it is not properly communicated to relevant parties. Hence, you need to have emergency committees in place to guarantee smooth flow of information and instructions. During calamities, members of the Emergency Committees play significant roles in ensuring […]
