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Australia Post continued to focus on injury prevention and building a culture of workplace safety through a range of initiatives. These included OH&S auditing, safe equipment design, workplace safety improvements, and training managers and supervisors in supervising for safety.
There was a strong focus on reducing the incidence of motorcycle accidents through reinforcing existing safe work practices, regular motorcycle maintenance inspections, risk reviews of motorcycle rounds, training in safe riding behaviour and thorough analysis of the cause of incidents.
A Postie Safety publicity and media campaign was initiated to highlight some of the risks affecting posties, and simple things that residents can do to help. Our posties actively contributed to the campaign, distributing millions of “8 tips for postie safety” postcards to residential addresses in most states.
During the year, we introduced upgraded procedures for the prevention of manual handling injuries. We also audited the effectiveness of OH&S management processes and introduced new safety procedures and training for employees changing wheels on linehaul vehicles. Other initiatives included successful rehabilitation and return-to-work programs.
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