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Matt Wyvill (SBRC), Ros Rees (WorkSafe Qld), Queensland Safety Ambassador Shane Webcke, Kristy Frahm (BIEDO) and Jules Entwistle (BIEDO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 28, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former rugby league star – and now Queensland Safety Ambassador – Shane Webcke was the special guest speaker at a Safe Work Month event organised by BIEDO in Murgon on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

You would have heard Shane on the radio and TV with his short but powerful message: “I lost my dad in a workplace incident, so I know first-hand that family and loved ones are the most important reason for work safety.”<\/p>\n

But his full story is much longer than that … Shane’s father was crushed by an industrial wool press.<\/p>\n

“It was just devastating, absolutely devastating,” he said.<\/p>\n

Shane now travels around for WorkSafe Queensland, talking to all sorts of people to emphasise the importance of workplace safety.<\/p>\n

Wherever he goes, his story always has a strong\u00a0 impact on his audience.<\/p>\n

The Murgon event concentrated on safety at work, on the farm and at home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Wyvill, from the South Burnett Regional Council, spoke about the enforceable undertaking that Council entered into with the Office of Fair and Safe Work Queensland after a man suffered serious injuries when he was crushed by a front-end loader at the Kingaroy Waste Management facility in 2013.<\/p>\n

The incident resulted in Council implementing a number of changes, including an upgraded WHS management system and installing reversing cameras on high-risk equipment.<\/p>\n

Carey Fuller, from Energy Queensland, spoke about safety around electricity … especially the all-important “Look Up And Live” message.<\/p>\n

(On Friday morning, two men suffered electric shocks, and one of them burns, when their grain auger hit power lines on a property west of Toowoomba).<\/p>\n