27 August 2010
Ande Mwakilembe from the Security Investigations Unit, United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) today completed an Olpac three day incident investigation course. The course was run at the Veolia Advanced Water Treatment Plant at Bundamba (Queensland) for Veolia Water Australia who kindly allowed Ande to participate in the training.
28 May 2010
The Fatality Free Friday campaign made a big impact on City workers in Reddacliff Place, Brisbane today. Over 1,500 pairs of shoes placed out by volunteers represented the 1,500 people who lost their lives on Australian roads during 2009. Olpac Director Robert Cochrane, in his address to the audience, highlighted that each pair of shoes symbolically represent someone's mother, father, son, daughter or friend and, as road users, we all have a vital role to play in reducing the road toll.
21 May 2010
In the lead up to Fatality Free Friday on 28 May 2010 Olpac hosted a sausage sizzle breakfast for employees of Redland City Council. The breakfast was held at the Redland City Council Depot and it was attended by Russell White, the founder of Fatality Free Friday. The project was a part of Olpac's continued commitment to Fatality Free Friday and road safety. This year the project highlighted blood alcohol issues as they relate to RCC truck drivers and the benefits and legalities of seat belt use by truck drivers.
30 March 2010
During March Olpac Director Glenn Robertson and Olpac Associate Paul Camilleri undertook truck driver and plant operator assessments for Papua New Guinea trucking company Trans Wonderland Ltd PNG (TWL). The assessments were part of the huge $US15 billion liquid natural gas project that is being developed by ExxonMobil and their local partners Oil Search Ltd. The PNG Post Courier newspaper reported on 30 March 2010 that more than 70 TWL employees have been assessed and a graduation ceremony was held at TWL's Moro headquarters. Glenn Robertson of Olpac was impressed with the general standard of most employees and stated that many would comfortably satisfy strict Australian standards.
26 November 2009
A Fatality Free Friday sponsors networking lunch was held at the Sirromet Winery at Mt Cotton (on the outskirts of Brisbane). Olpac was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation by FFF founder Russell White in recognition of our commitment as an Alliance Partner in the Fatality Free Friday program for 2009. A special guest and speaker at the lunch was Fatality Free Friday Patron Bev Brock. Learn more about the program at the
Fatality Free Friday website.
6 October 2009
On 5 and 6 October 2009 Olpac was pleased to contribute to the Participate in Prosperity Program by conducting two 'White Card' courses (Work safely in the construction industry CPCCOHS1001A) for 21 unemployed or under-employed people.
Participate in Prosperity is a four-year strategy that targets the multiple barriers that prevent people in areas of high disadvantage from participating in work by:
1. improving the coordination and integration of government and nongovernment human services in targeted locations to help people overcome barriers in their lives, for example, financial, health and housing issues as well as employment challenges; and
2. supporting the expansion of social enterprises to provide transitional and real employment for individuals.
Olpac director, Glenn Robertson, said "It was a very rewarding experience and I was so impressed with the enthusiasm of the people who attended the training".
21 October 2009
Glenn and Rob returned from Singapore where they ran an incident investigation awareness course. The training was conducted for a Scottish company that specialises in providing engineering, operations and maintenance services to the owners of energy assets around the world. The training was part of a one week conference that was attended by specialists from places including Scotland, Australia, Vietnam, Singapore, Sakhalin, Gabon and India.
17 October 2009
Today Olpac moved into new facilities at Suite 6.15, 433 Logan Road, Stones Corner (Brisbane). Our new office is in the '443 on Logan' complex just 5 minutes on the M1 from the Brisbane CBD.
24 July 2009
Today Olpac announced that it will make a commitment to
Fatality Free Friday for 2010 by continuing as an Alliance Partner in the program. Fatality Free Friday is now an annual event designed to focus public attention on road safety and encourage all road users to think and drive safely. 28 May will be Fatality Free Friday for 2010 and Olpac is committed to reminding our clients, families and friends that we all have a role in reducing the road toll.
1 July 2009
Under Queensland health and safety laws, any person doing construction work in Queensland from 1 July 2009 must have successfully completed a general OHS construction induction course for the industry before they start work in any construction activity.
Olpac is an approved training provider for the course: Work safely in the construction industry CPCCOHS1001A (White Card). Face to face training can be provided across Queensland and, if required, in other States and the Northern Territory.
It is important to note that any person who holds a Queensland blue card issued before 1 July 2009 is not required to undertake further training or replace their blue cards as they will continue to be valid and recognised in Queensland and other States and Territories.
For more information on the requirements for a White Card visit the Queensland
Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
19 June 2009
The Queensland Department of Education and Training advised that Olpac's application to extend its scope of training to include: Operate breathing apparatus (MSAPMOHS216A); Work in accordance with an issued permit; (MSAPMPER200B) and Enter confined space (MSAPMPER205B) from the qualification Certificate II in Process Manufacturing (MSA20107) is now approved. Olpac is pleased to advise that training for the three competencies can be provided across Queensland and, if required, in other States and the Northern Territory.
13 June 2009
The fund-raising event 'Jazz on the River' was a wonderful afternoon in brilliant winter sunshine. Somerville House students entertained the attendees with - you guessed it - Jazz at the Somerville House Water Sports Facility. The entertainment also included several dance displays by two beautiful young Nepalese girls.
Olpac donated several raffle prizes to assist twelve Somerville House Seniors to raise money for cervical vaccines. The students will soon take a supply of the vaccines to Nepal where it will be used to vaccinate Nepalese school girls against cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer kills more than 250,000 women every year worldwide, 90% of these women live in developing countries. In Nepal cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer in women between the ages of 20 and 60 and far exceeds even breast cancer.
24 May 2009
In September this year, twelve Somerville House Seniors will embark on the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation's 'Discover Nepal Experience' to deliver much needed cervical vaccines to the school girls in Nepal. Olpac is a sponsor of an initiative to raise the money needed to purchase these vaccines.
A 'Jazz on the River' fund-raising event will be held at the Somerville House Water Sports Facility (Rowing Shed) on Saturday, 13 June 2009. Inquiries for the event should be directed by email to aolsen@somerville.qld.edu.au or by 'phoning (07) 3248 9200 by 1 June 2009.
22 May 2009
Fatality Free Friday for 2009 finished in a big way in Brisbane at Reddacliffe Place when the FFF team arrived in convoy from the Gold Coast. A large crowd including, Rob Cochrane and Glenn Robertson from Olpac, greeted the convoy as it rolled into Reddacliffe Place.
The convoy included V8 Supercar driver Russell Ingall who chatted with the public and took time out for a photo opportunity with Glenn and Rob. Fatality Free Friday founder Russell White gave an overview of the FFF campaign to push home the message that we all have a part to play in road safety.
8 May 2009
Olpac sponsored a sausage sizzle breakfast and Fatality Free Friday awareness session at the Queensland Department of Main Roads depot at Nathan (Brisbane). The event was a lead up to Fatality Free Friday on 22 May 2009.
About 60 Main Roads workers, including the RoadTek General Manager Grant McDonald, attended the session which included an overview on Fatality Free Friday by founder Russell White. Senior Sergeant Peter Carmichael of the Queensland Police Service gave an informative presentation on alcohol to highlight the dangers of driving a vehicle after consuming alcohol.
The project was a part of Olpac's commitment to Fatality Free Friday and road safety.
6 May 2009
MEDIA RELEASE
Olpac put sizzle in Fatality Free Friday events
Queensland’s RoadTek drivers will have some food for thought on May 8 when Olpac hosts a breakfast sausage sizzle and a road safety training session at the Nathan Depot.
The event will be held as a lead up to Fatality Free Friday on 22 May 2009.
Many of these drivers are on the road every day – constructing and maintaining Queensland’s road infrastructure and they’ve seen crashes as well as countless near misses.
So there’s a reason why every one of them is right behind Fatality Free Friday.
Olpac is a leading training and consulting organisation and according to director Robert Cochrane, Fatality Free Friday is a terrific vehicle to promote road safety in all its forms.
“For us it’s about safety at work and safety on the roads,” he said.
“The people we train work on the roads while traffic goes past each day and after seeing the way some people drive, we’re more than mindful when we get behind the wheel ourselves.”
The RoadTek Nathan Depot Breakfast Sausage Sizzle is hosted by Fatality Free Friday sponsor Olpac which provides training and consulting services to government departments and local government, as well as mining, construction, power, gas and oil companies.
The company specialises in incident investigation, major incident management and machinery training courses.
Mr Cochrane said he hoped that this event will be part of future road safety events associated with Fatality Free Friday.
“This is just the beginning,” he said. “We’re hoping this concept takes off across all the government departments we work with.
“The Fatality Free Friday sausage sizzle is the ideal vehicle for us to say thank you to our valued clients in a way that matches our corporate ethos of safe effective driving.”
The event will feature a presentation by Senior Sergeant Peter Carmichael of the Queensland Police Service who will highlight the dangers of the deadly mixture of alcohol, drugs and driving. He will also run through some of the road rules and traffic policy that particularly impacts on professional drivers.
Fatality Free Friday is Australia’s only community-based national road safety campaign.
“Our theme for 2009 is ‘how to save a life’,” said Russell White, author, road safety advocate and Fatality Free Friday founder.
“And we congratulate Olpac for taking a leading role in promoting driver education and safety in the very important area of professional drivers on Fatality Free Friday," said Russell.
“That level of proactive community involvement is a real credit and will go a long way in helping us achieve our aim of fewer deaths and serious injuries on our roads.”
Fatality Free Friday 2009 marks the third year of the campaign and has attracted a wide range of commercial sponsors and supporters including Isuzu Ute, Tyres & More, Suncorp Insurance, Armor All, Energex, Castrol Edge, QFleet, QR, 4BC and the Motorama Group.
Editor’s note: Russell White is available for interview on the contact details below:
For further information
Russell White
Mobile: 0419 866 165
E-mail: info@driversafety.com.au
Jacqui Carling-Rodgers
Business Communications Management
Phone: 5591 8081
Mobile: 0414 282 048
E-mail Jacqui@bcm-online.com.au
