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Safety in HVACR
FIRST AID UPDATES
Worksafe Victoria has just released an updated version of the First Aid in the Workplace Compliance Code.
The code offers practical guidance for employers to ensure they are complying with their duty to provide a safe workplace.
The guide is also helpful to health and safety representatives for any consultation discussions with their employer around workplace first aid.
A Worksafe spokesperson said the updated version replaces the 2008 code.
“It includes recommendations to consider adding asthma relieving inhalers and epinephrine auto injectors to first aid kits and to consider training for first aid officers to assist people experiencing a mental health crisis,” the spokesperson said.
It also provides information on providing adequate first aid room facilities, assessing first aid needs and ensuring training remains up-to-date.
Talent squeeze
to tighteBn in 2022
ABOUT FOUR IN 10 BUSINESSES ARE EXPERIENCING SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS FROM LABOUR SHORTAGES, ACCORDING
IG BUSINESSES ARE hardest hit by the talent squeeze, the NAB Business Insight Report released last month showed.
TO NEW RESEARCH
FROM NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK (NAB).
ABOVE: Tradies account for 35 per cent of the nation’s shortage.
About four in 10 medium (38 per cent) and large (37 per cent) firms view labour shortages as a very significant issue, compared
with three in 10 (31 per cent) small businesses. Tradespeople now account for about 35 per
cent of the nation’s total workforce shortage.
In Tasmania, tradespeople make up 44 per cent of the state’s total labour shortage, followed closely by Western Australia, where they ac-
count for 40 per cent of the workforce crunch. NAB CEO Ross McEwan said bringing talent into Australia will be key to addressing the la-
bour and skill shortages in the next 12 months. “Australian businesses are facing significant
skilled and unskilled labour shortages,” McE- wan said.
“To get the economy really firing we will need to bring people into Australia and make sure, as a nation, we’re building a skilled workforce for the future.”
The research captured the views of around 1,600 Australian businesses across a broad range of industries and sizes from 16 November to 13 December 2021.
During the survey, businesses shared how prevalent the labour shortage issue is today, their expectations for the next 12 months, and how they believe the issue can be solved.
Warehouse for increased inventory
RECTORSEAL AUSTRALIA HAS opened a new warehouse in Brendale, Queensland.
The new warehouse will function as the compa- ny's Australian head office.
In addition, the location offers additional warehouse space to help expand RectorSeal's current product offering to customers.
It will be fully staffed to ensure operational ex- cellence with regard to customer service and product availability.
RectorSeal Australia general manager, Craig Bicket, said the new warehouse location will sup- port the company’s strategic goal of increasing in- ventory on hand while decreasing shipping times.
“With our own dedicated space, we will be able to manage a greater level of inventory to serve our
customers’ needs more efficiently." Bicket said. Key RectorSeal staff members will relocate to Queensland as part of the new warehouse move. "I look forward to meeting our current and new customers to show them our new facility,”
Bicket said.
“We expect these impressive enhancements
we’ve made will offer even higher levels of custom- er service along with a broader product offering."
RectorSeal Australia was founded in 2014 via the acquisition of the Evo-Crete and PolySlab brands.
For more information, customers in Australia and New Zealand can visit www.rectorseal.com. au or call 1300 77 2878 for sales and technical support.
Technicians will have access to a wider product range.
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