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One bad choice, A Lifetime of Consequences
Drugs, alcohol, and other impairing substances can create serious safety risks across the commercial seafood industry. Seafood workplaces often involve physically demanding work, machinery, vehicles, sharp tools, wet surfaces, vessels, remote environments, and situations where workers need to make safe decisions quickly and respond effectively during emergencies. Impairment can reduce judgement, coordination, concentration, reaction time, and awareness of hazards, increasing the risk of incidents and injuries.
Even legally prescribed medication can affect a person’s ability to work safely. All team members should understand whether medication they are taking could impair their ability to operate machinery, drive vehicles, work around equipment, or respond safely in an emergency.
USE OF Drugs and alcohol can create serious safety risks
Managing drugs and alcohol is not about punishment. It is about ensuring everyone is fit for duty, able to make safe decisions, and ready to respond when something goes wrong. Clear expectations, strong communication, and early intervention help create safer workplaces across the seafood industry.
Sea Safe has developed a series of training tools to support business owners, supervisors and team members. These resources should be customised for your situation. They are most effective when they are used regularly and linked to real work activities and operational risks.
- Pocket Guide
Download copies to use in your Tookbox Talks and hand out to team members. This Pocket Guide is a short, practical reference for team members to keep on hand.
- Poster
Download copies to use to use around the workplace reminding team members of important safety messages.
- Guide to leading a toolbox talk
This document is designed to help business owners, supervisors and team leaders deliver a Toolbox Talk; a short, practical, and action-focused conversation between team members.
- Communication Campaign
This guide has been developed to help seafood businesses organise and roll out safety related communications to their staff. It includes social media posts, text messages, and newsletter content businesses can customise for their own situation and context.
- Stickers
Download copies to use around the workplace reminding team members of important safety messages.
Become a safety advocate
Sea Safe’s Safety Advocates prioritize safety, ensuring that everyone can enjoy their work and return home safely. This guide helps Safety Advocates to reduce risks across the commercial seafood industry. Get in touch with us to become a Safety Advocate.