The new H&S at Work Act will go live in April. It is a good time to refine how you communicate your safety processes to your employees and contractors.

All businesses big or small, high risk or low will need to improve communication and training under the new PCBU obligations.
There are a lot of questions arising about the new act so luckily I recently had the pleasure of asking Zeb Reid from Platinum Safety (a nationwide highly experienced company) a few questions.
 
Hi Zeb, firstly, how does this new law change the normal practices of working New Zealanders?
 We all know that paper work and training does not guarantee that individuals will do the right thing. However, those bits of paper serve as evidence of PCBU’s performing their part in the risk management. In an age of YouTube, Facebook and social media communicating procedures and policy via visual media is easier and more cost effective than one might assume.
Responsibility for doing the right thing falls to the PCBU in providing training and direction and on the worker to follow procedures once they are communicated.
 
Ok, so in your opinion do you think there is other ways to ensure that individuals are exposed to as much information as possible? What are your thoughts about using video to educate people about correct safety procedures?
 We find that the majority of workers are visual learners and practical by nature. Using video and other visual means to train or communicate procedure is very time effective, can be delivered via on-site devices such as phones and is cost effective over traditional in-class training that takes the worker out of the work place.
 Targeting training into short to the point presentations also provides an opportunity to respond quickly to new information and distribute it to workers fast.
 
What are your thoughts on a company implementing video training to educate individuals about their own responsibilities and correct practice while working?
 We have all become short in attention span. Targeting training to be short, to the point and delivered to phones and laptops solves many logistical issues. Video is an ideal solution to the increasing requirement to communicate with workers and their supervisors. One only needs to look at the proliferation of YouTube to understand how visual we have become.

With the help of KOR, we can carefully explore your business processes to effectively communicate your risk management procedures to your employees.
 
Having moving media training and communication as a PCBU is a vital part of a risk management strategy.

Any questions:
dave@korcreative.nz

Any H&S questions:
zebreid@platinumsafetysystems.co.nz

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