WHSO is an abbreviation for the job title Workplace Health and Safety Officer. It is used as a word in Australian industry pronounced "WHO-zo". An example of its use (as spoken by a construction site supervisor to subcontractors) is "The WHSO called a safety meeting meeting at lunch time today and youse blokes better be there."
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sdbrown commented on the word WHSO
WHSO is an abbreviation for the job title Workplace Health and Safety Officer. It is used as a word in Australian industry pronounced "WHO-zo". An example of its use (as spoken by a construction site supervisor to subcontractors) is "The WHSO called a safety meeting meeting at lunch time today and youse blokes better be there."
June 13, 2015
sdbrown commented on the word WHSO
WHSO is an abbreviation for Workplace Health and Safety Officer.
June 13, 2015
sdbrown commented on the word PCBU
PCBU is an abbreviation of the term Person in Charge of a Business or Undertaking.
June 13, 2015
sdbrown commented on the word DIFOT
DIFOT (Acronym for Delivered In Full, On Time) article in Wikipedia
April 22, 2011
sdbrown commented on the word straya
"Straya" is not so much a word as an approximation of the way Australians pronounce the word "Australia".
ref:
* Urban Dictionary entry: "straya".
* Uncyclopedia article: "Australia".
* Sydney Morning Herald article: "Students get grouse guide to 'straya" Edited by Andrew Hornery with Ben Wyld July 23 2002
April 8, 2011