Injury Prevention & Management (IPM) is in the business of improving our client's occupational health and safety performance. Our goal is zero harm in the workplace. We provide a broad range of professional Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) consulting and training services. Since opening in 1998, IPM has become Tasmania's largest and most professional OH&S Consulting company. There are six key segments to IPM Business as follows:
- Workplace Hazard Monitoring
- Return to Work Management
- OH&S Consulting and Auditing
- Asbestos Solutions
- Ergonomic Solutions
- OH&S Training
- IPM Training Room
IPM's offices
IPM employs professional Occupational Hygienists, has an extensive range of monitoring equipment and a newly established well equipped hygiene laboratory.
- Noise - personal and area monitoring
- Dust - respirable and inhalable (conducted on a broad range of hazardous substances e.g. silica, metals)
- Fibre - synthetic and asbestos
- Organic vapours
- Indoor air quality
- Diesel particulate matter
- Lighting
- Other substance monitoring can be conducted on request.
Industrial Workplace Assessment
IPM provides a proactive system based approach to managing workplace injuries including:
- Early intervention programs
- Return to Work monitoring
- Claims management assistance and training
- Injury management system development training
- Return to Work coordination and mentoring
- InjuryMAP audits and assessments
IPM can assist you in decreasing your workers compensation costs by achieving cost effective outcomes.
Occupational
Health & Safety Consulting and Auditing
IPM specialises in providing a broad range of consulting services to assist organisations to identify hazards, undertake risk assessments and control workplace risks. Our approach is practical, user friendly and we aim to make a difference.
We can help you to establish effective safety management systems or audit your existing safety management systems to ensure they meet appropriate standards.
Our consultants can help you in the following areas:
- Hazard identification, reporting, assessment and control
- Workplace safety inspections
- Job safety analysis
- Developing safe work procedures
- Plant guarding audits
- Incident investigation
- Safety management system development
- OH&S coordination and mentoring
- AS4801 audits and assessments
- SafetyMAP audits and assessments
- Behavioural safety systems
- Confined space management
- Contractor safety management
- Forklift & warehouse safety systems
- Driver safety
We have practical know-how from a wide range of service and manufacturing industries in small and large organisations. Consistent with our goal we seek to improve the capacity of business operators and employees to manage occupational health & safety effectively.
IPM provides a comprehensive asbestos management service
including:
- Asbestos surveys
- Development of Asbestos Registers
- Development of Asbestos Management Plans
- Asbestos identification
- Asbestos fibre monitoring and counting (statewide)
- Visual clearances
- Air clearances (statewide, we are mobile)
- Asbestos awareness training
- Asbestos management training
We can provide you with a solution to manage your asbestos.
Practical, cost sensitive and effective solutions for your ergonomic risks workstations, production equipment, workflows and all manual handling risks.
IPM's ergonomic specialists are qualified and provide:
- Ergonomic assessments
- Design review and solutions
- Equipment and workstation reviews
- Manual handling risk control
- Techniques and procedures
- Practical handling skills
- Pre-employment medicals/Physical Risk Screening
- Ergonomic office equipment
Occupational Health and
Safety Training Services
We now deliver training from our own excellent in-house training facility; or we can deliver customised training at your premises or venue. To investigate IPM Training Services further, click here.
IPM is a Registered Training Organisation for the delivery of 7 specific Nationally Recognised and Accredited OH&S units. IPM's trainers and assessors are all qualified and are OH&S professionals with a combined 60 years of industrial experience.
Many of our courses are "short-courses" and non-Accredited. They enable participants to receive high quality training in a conveniently short time and often without after-course assignments.
Our training programs consistently receive great feedback from participants from all organisational levels - and two of our clients have received Workplace Safe Awards for training programs we designed and delivered for them.
Our broad range of training consultants means they can provide "real" and "practical" training that will assist you to meet your occupational health & safety goals. IPM' s training makes a real difference towards achieving injury free Tasmanian workplaces.
Gold Safety Training Award in the 2004 Workplace Safe Awards, won by Tourism Tasmania, developed by IPM's Martyn Bradfield, back row, 2nd from right
IPM offers for hire our modern well-equipped training/meeting room. This recently renovated facility offers a light, spacious and airy feel.
The room comfortably seats 20, or can be cleared to fit more, and can be arranged in various configurations including classroom, theatre or boardroom styles.
Cost is $250 for a full day or $150 for a half day excluding GST.
For more information or to make a booking contact Rob Prestedge (rob@ipmsafety.com).
The IPM Training Room