Safety Management Systems

Risk and Safety Solutions have an extensive history of providing assistance and efficient solutions for organisations throughout NSW and ACT. Our services range from design, construction, implementation and review of safety management systems documentation and strategic processes for small to large organisations. These services allow your organisation to address industry standards and government OHS accreditation requirements, including:

• AS4801 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems requirements
• Federal safety commissioner (FSC) – The Australian Government Building and Construction OHS Accreditation Scheme
• NSW Government OHS Management System Guidelines (OHSMS/EMS Accreditation)
• National self-insurer OHS audit tool.

The team at Risk and Safety Solutions can identify your organisations OHS Management system insufficiencies and can utilise our industry knowledge to recommend strategies and compile documentation to overcome inconsistencies and assist your organisation in achieving all legislative compliance. Our OHS consultants work with you and your organisation to understand your individual needs, creating a tailor specific health and safety management strategy you can understand and implement into every aspect of your organisation.

Contractor Health and Safety (WHS) Management

Risk and Safety Solutions Consultants are leaders in the industry and can apply their expertise to assist you in developing, implementing and sustaining your organisations’ specific compliant contractor safety management system. Our Consultants can work with you and your organisation to strategically implement contractor pre-qualification, evaluation and monitoring to suit your organisations’ safety requirements and needs. Utilising and implementing our services will provide your organisation with effective systems and solutions to your contractor management.

WHS (OHS) Policies and Procedures

The Risk and Safety Solutions team consists of WHS leaders who have extensive experience in writing concise and practical WHS policies and procedures, which can be easily developed and implemented into your business today. Our team will continually assist your organisation in writing or reviewing complex WHS policies and procedures and how best to integrate each into different aspects of your organisation. Our team align all policies and procedures to the applicable legislative requirements including codes and standards, in simple language and format, that is easy for you to communicate, understand and implement into all aspects of your organisation.

Site Safety Plans and Construction WHS Management Plans

As a legislative requirement for all construction sites, the Risk and Safety Solutions team can create succinct Site Safety Plans or Site Safety Management Plans (SSMP) for your organisation, in a timely and professional manner. Our WHS Consultants are experts in developing various compliant formats of Site Safety Plans to suit projects as a whole, as well as individual components of a construction project. Through our experience, our consultants are able to fulfil the requirements of various plans which meet all State, Australian Government and AS4801 obligations. Our Site WHS management Plans are tailor-maid, meaning we work with you and your organisation to understand what you need and how our plans can work to cover any aspect of your project. Contact our team for more information and to get started on creating your individualised Site WHS management plan today.

Safety Work Method Statements

A flexible format of Safe Work Method Statements or Work Method Statements is required for all medium and high-risk work activities and for tasks requiring a permit to work. These activities can include, but are not limited too; working at heights; in confined spaces; electrical work; working near traffic and working with asbestos. Risk and Safety Solutions WHS Consultants have extensive experience developing Safe Work Method Statements for many of the above activities and have also compiled a variety of Generic Safe Work Method Statements, which can easily be adapted and integrated into your organisations high and medium risk work activities.

WHS Audits

Accredited OHS Auditors and regularly undertake and provide strategic recommendations for organisations, in the following third-party OHS Audits:

• Compliance Auditing: ensuring your organisations’ workplace meet legislative requirements, specific codes, standards and ensuring compliance throughout the entirety of your organisation.
• Hazard Specific Audits: auditing for particular hazards and checking control methods within your organisation, ensuring there is a clear correlation to applicable legislative requirements, codes and standards.
• OHS Management System Audits: a high-level documentary review of your organisations’ existing hazard management policies and procedures, manuals and plans to AS4801 audit criteria.

Workplace WHS Inspections and Risk Assessment

Risk and Safety Solutions WHS Consultants conduct independent third-party WHS inspections in your workplace, identifying general and specific hazards that pose a risk to employees and others in the workplace and on work premises under AS4804 / AS4801 requirements and all other applicable legislative requirements. Our teams’ extensive experience in workplace settings and industries will provide you with a valuable and comprehensive OHS inspection report which includes a risk register itemising all identified hazards, risks and control measures that are required with an action plan which you can incorporate into your OHS program. OHS inspections and risk assessments conducted by our consultants cover the following areas:

• Workplace hazard inspections
• Hazardous Chemicals Risk Assessment and Chemical Safety Management System
• Plant Safety and Guarding
• Manual Handling Risk Assessment
• Physical and Biological Hazards
• High-Risk Hazards
• Access and Egress
• Fire Safety and Emergency
• Confined Spaces
• Equipment Planned Use
• Safe Operating Procedures
• Existing Controls (Personal protection, signage, awareness, etc.)
• WHS Consultation Arrangements
• Accident / incident / near-miss investigations
• Employee and Contractor Safety Performance
• Other areas as needed