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XLam, Australasia’s leading innovator and supplier of cross-laminated timber is building a fortified safety culture. ecoPortal made health and safety a seamless and integrated process as their business scaled up.
“We saw a clear need for a web-based portal-like health and safety system,” said Gary McShane, Business Operations Manager at XLam. That’s when ecoPortal health and safety software entered the picture.
With incident reporting came new initiatives. “We’ll see some near-misses with forklifts,” Gary remembered. “And it wasn’t just one near-miss, we saw the trend.” Using their data from ecoPortal, XLam decided to put blue lights on all their forklifts that were set to shine when the forklift was five meters away from any machine. It was no surprise that their near-miss rate dropped soon after.
The best way to create an organic, yet effective safety culture is to make health and safety reporting a seamless, integrated process. Easy systems create strong engagement, something that XLam Business Excellence Advisor, Craig Christie noticed. “What we have achieved is really good engagement from all levels of staff.”
A health and safety system that just makes sense - organised, coherent and cohesive - is really a non-negotiable for any successful business growing and expanding, like XLam. It should, ideally, be something you’re proud of and enjoy working with.
At the end of the day, Craig put it best: “It’s us, working together, to get safer.”
