Training is important. We should all make it a priority. We should be teaching and not preaching as supervisors and managers and all of us can be agents of change in our own businesses.

Safety audits and inspections have been shown to reduce the number of accidents, which benefits business and their workers. It is better to be proactive with safety rather than waiting for an accident to happen.

A robust safety management system should represent a balance of the three approaches, as each by itself will yield poor safety results, used together they provide a potent tool to assure workplace safety.

A foundation of good risk management is good decision making. Many, if not all, accident investigations reveal safety failures due to poor decisions making around risk

We must recognise we are all prone to complacency, the next step is to recognise when you are on the path to complacency and re-establish mindfulness to the task at hand.

The results indicate that the most cost-effective safety initiatives/elements are upper management support and commitment and sub-contractor selection and management.

Several comprehensive studies have found that WHS performance of small and medium enterprises (SME) is significantly poorer when compared to the performance of larger firms.