FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
• Work related injury and illness were estimated
to cost $60.6 billion in the 2008–09 financial
year, representing 4.8% of GDP. The cost
estimate includes direct costs (payment of
wages and medical costs) and indirect costs
(lost productivity, loss of future earnings and
social welfare payments).
The FMA has increasingly been working with both
industry and government to broaden the focus
of sustainability so as to capture the benefits of
addressing both environmental and social impacts.
This has also involved encouraging engagement
with developers and architects at the design
stage to ensure that FMs can deliver real benefits
in the long term trough environmental design
and design which enhances safety and wellbeing.
An important part of the equation is education
and ongoing professional development to ensure
that FMs are kept up to date with the latest
standards and regulations in risk management.
In 2013 the FMA ran a series of workshops on the
newly completed 2012 fire standards AS1851.
Although the standard had been issued earlier in
the year, there was little understanding around what
it meant, who was responsible for what, and how it
should be applied. Consequently the response to
the FMA workshops was overwhelming and clearly
highlighted a wider issue facing the industry.
The FMA has also been a great advocate in
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