Safetyquip Geelong & Vic West
Safety in Greater Geelong

The safety professionals safetyquip offers a full scope safety supply service including personal protective equipment (ppe), site safety products, safety gear, work wear, safety equipment, confined space equipment and hi visibility clothing. Our range covers the full scope of safety supply including safety equipment, workwear and safety footwear plus all the hard to get stuff that others shy away from. Safetyquip can supply whatever you need to make your workplace and workers safer. So if you want all the usual safety gear but also want to be looked after for first aid, environmental spill control, height safety, safety signs, traffic control, fire safety, safety lighting and everything else then safetyquip is the outfit youve been looking for.

If history has taught us anything, it’s that workplace safety is an absolute must! There’s much speculation over the initial and lengthy term end tolls, but it’s believed to reach in at roughly 16,00 people. It’s also believed the disaster occurred as a result of impoverished maintenance and needy management, as a number of safety systems, pipe and gas cleaning systems were all offline at the time of the incident. We all know the story of the Titanic, but do you know fair how many overlooked safety precautions led to the disaster that has been retold for generations? For instance, there were only adequate lifeboats to accommodate 1,178 people and because they were launched lower capacity, only 705 people escaped on them. The HMS Titanic also ignored six iceberg warnings prior it eventually crashed into one at nearly packed speed. The Japanese were running a captured Chinese mine, the Honkeiko Colliery Mine when there was a gas explosion in one of the shafts. Now, if you know a thing or two about mining, you would know that it was an incredibly dangerous occupation back in the day, with gas explosions being quite common. However, what makes this exceptional explosion so devastating is that after only a concise attempt to evacuate the mine, its Japanese operators decided to close off the ventilation to the affected shafts in an attempt to starve the fire of oxygen. As it turns out, pensive corners were cut during the construction of the building in an attempt to lessen costs, which resulted in 42 people, including the building’s owners being charged with murder after the devastating collapse. Some of the transgressions include being built on a site where there had been a pond, adding a four unapproved stores to the building, operating as an industrial site when it was built for commercial purposes, and It was built using cheap, inferior building materials. It’s really not surprising the building collapsed! However, the most sorrowful portion of the total incident is that maximum of the businesses operating within the building had walked out when the cracks first appeared on the lower floors. However, they were ordered to return to work, and their beginning day back was the day the building collapsed. Flash forward to the present, and workplace health and safety standards have improved dramatically, however, constant vigilance is required to ensure disasters such as these, don’t happen again.