We regularly share our thoughts and tips on creating a truly sustainable business on our blog.
Safe Travels – How to Arrive Home Safely
No matter how you travel to work, bus, boat or helicopter even, there are always safety concerns. The best thing you can do is undertake a risk assessment by asking yourself a couple of easy questions. Working is a part of life but it is not how you live life, make sure you get home to the people you love and to the people who love you, so everyone else can too.
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Professional development – take charge and succeed
Professional development is a process of learning, improving and increasing personal knowledge and professional capabilities. Investing in your professional development also has the added benefit of demonstrating to employers that you are committed to your performance.
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National Pollutant Inventory
It is that time of year again, many Environmental Officer and Advisors are running around trying to complete their NPI reports. For those in that space, be relieved it is almost over for another year and for some of your maybe you are just not aware or involved in NPI reporting, if this is the case this Insight might be of interest.
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Safety for the Next Generation
Children today are spending less time outdoors than their parents did, due largely to the development of technology and an increasingly risk averse society, resulting in children not being able practice risk assessment which allows them to match their skills with the demands of the environment (Almon 2013).
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Threats to Biodiversity
We should also recognise that biodiversity holds great importance to humans. By respecting the values and benefits that we gain from Australia’s natural diversity, we can improve the way we manage and protect our biodiversity, and our wellbeing.
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The Amazing Western Australian Underground Orchid
This strange little orchid is endemic to Western Australia and it lives, blooms, and sets seed entirely underground. It is extremely rare, with very few known populations, which are unpublished to the general public for its protection, think of it if you will witness protection, as fewer than 50 mature plants are known to exist.
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Risk Management: Identify, Assess and Control Hazards
Undertaking an informal risk assessment by taking a minute to identify, assess and control the hazards could prevent you from becoming part of the statistics.
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Keep Australia Beautiful Week
Download PDF: ISPL Insight - Keeping your Australia Beautiful If you haven’t heard yet, the 20-26 August is Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) week. This year focuses on marine litter with the Save our Seas campaign (SOS). The idea behind SOS is to raise awareness about...
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The Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint also referred to as the Human Footprint, is a globally implemented metric for measuring the Earth’s natural resources and the extent to which we use them. It can be simply explained through an economic and accounting description of the demand and supply for earth’s natural resources.
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Workplace Safety: Why Report Accidents and Injuries?
All injuries which occur in the workplace should be reported to a supervisor or your employer. Even if these injuries seem minor. Reporting an injury helps to ensure safety issues in the workplace can be addressed to reduce the occurrence of injuries to other employees.
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