Consultation and Advisory Services
Our consulting services deliver practical, fit‑for‑purpose health and safety solutions tailored to your workplace. We work alongside your team to achieve the best outcomes, recognising that not every organisation needs a full‑scale consulting approach.
By understanding your challenges and priorities, we ensure you receive the right support at the right time. From meeting regulatory requirements to strengthening your health and safety culture, we’re here to help—no matter the size or scope of the task.
Let’s talk about how we can best support your team.
Risk Management
Effective risk management starts with understanding your risks and knowing whether your controls are working. If you need clear visibility of workplace risks, our practical,
interactive approach provides a strong place to start.
Successful risk management identifies risks that could impact your business objectives—including health and safety, operational, financial, legal, and reputational risks. Used across operations, projects, and governance, it helps you prioritise what matters most and ensures risks are actively managed.
In simple terms:
Risk management answers the question, “What could impact our key business goals?”
Why it matters
You can’t manage what you don’t identify. Strong risk assessment is the foundation of safer work, smarter decisions, and effective hazard control. Designing out risk early is faster, safer, and far cheaper than fixing problems once work is underway.
Our solutions (click on headings for more)
Risk Assessment Workshop
Capture and turn risk knowledge into a clear, actionable register for informed decision-making.
Safety By Design
Identify and eliminate risks at the earliest design stages – before construction or implementation.
Business-Wide Risk Assessments
Gain a consolidated, organisationwide view of risk to drive resilience and control.
Safety Systems: Gap Analysis & Auditing
Strong systems don’t happen by chance. Audits and gap analysis provide clear insight into how effectively your health, safety, environment, and quality systems are performing-highlighting gaps, reducing risk, and preventing non-compliance surprises before they arise.
Our structured, independent reviews help you understand where your systems are working well, where improvements are needed, and how to prioritise action with confidence.
Why it matters
Well-designed systems support safer work, stronger compliance, and better organisational performance. Regular audits and gap analysis help ensure your systems remain effective, aligned to recognised standards, and fit for purpose as your organisation evolves. They provide officers with assurance that the system is operating as expected.
Our solutions (click on headings for more)
Health & Safety Systems Audit
Comprehensive compliance report with actionable recommendations.
HSEQ System Gap Analysis
Independent review against ISO standards with clear gaps and priorities.
Prequalification Support and Contractor Management
We support organisations to effectively manage contractor health and safety—and contractors to clearly demonstrate robust H&S systems through pre‑qualification.
Our practical, no‑guesswork approach helps both parties confidently meet pre‑qualification and contractor safety requirements. For organisations, we strengthen contractor management and PCBU compliance. For contractors, we help you evidence capability so you can win work and protect your reputation.
PCBU duties cannot be transferred. You remain responsible for health and safety outcomes even when:
- Work is carried out off‑site
- Contractors are engaged
- A “qualified” third party is used
We help you put the right controls in place, demonstrate due diligence, and meet your obligations with confidence.
Why it matters
Strong pre‑qualification and contractor management reduce risk, support compliance, and build trust. They demonstrate contractor capability and give clients confidence that work will be delivered safely, reliably, and with minimal disruption.
Clear systems. Confident contractors. Reduced risk.
Our Solutions (click on headings for more)
Prequalification Support
Practical, hands-on-support for prequalification success.
Contractor Management
Effective contractor safety management systems to support compliance and real-world operations.
Psychosocial Risk and Wellbeing
Every workplace has psychosocial factors that influence how people feel, perform, and engage at work-both positively and negatively.
Managing these risks is a key part of creating psychologically safe, resilient, and productive workplaces
Why it matters:
Unmanaged psychosocial risks can lead to burnout, mental injury claims, higher absenteeism, and reduced performance. They can also expose organisations to legal, reputational, and compliance risks.
A proactive approach supports healthier people, stronger workplace culture, and sustainable organisational outcomes.
Our Solutions (click on headings for more)
Psychosocial Risk Workshop
Build capability to identify psychosocial hazards, assess risk, and develop effective control strategies.
Psychosocial Gap Analysis
A structured assessment of your psychosocial risk management approach against ISO 45003.
Mentoring
Here at Work Safe Advisory Services, we aim to support, empower and encourage your team so they can successfully deliver organisational outcomes. Mentoring is particularly effective when people have just taken on a new challenge, are transitioning into a new role, or want to gain better knowledge and understanding of their field or industry.
What we Offer –
- An experienced Health and Safety consultant to walk alongside your people – able to share insights, knowledge, and expertise.
- One to one mentoring – an exclusive relationship between the mentor and mentoree for personalised development and guidance.
- A sounding board – to listen, bounce ideas around with and offer honest advice when required.
- Flexible, so it can be scheduled support or reactive to client need. (one day per month, online sessions or focussed support around a particular task or topic).
- Access to our suite of tools from H&S annual planning and worker engagement to effectively managing the H&S committee meeting.
Mentoring is an effective way to extend employees thinking, learn new skills and improve their performance.
Provide a H&S System
Our personalised Health & Safety Manual covers all aspects of the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015. It includes everything a PCBU needs to establish a comprehensive Health & Safety Management System.
The customised manual will have your company name, logo. This is YOUR manual – not a generic one. The folder has places for you to file completed forms. An excel spreadsheet for entering statistics which automatically creates graphs.
Your manual will include:
- Alignment to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
- Explanation of the PCBU’s health and safety responsibilities and the importance of compliance.
- A way to conduct hazard identification and risk management and a hazard register template.
- Forms to report accidents and near hits and manage investigations.
- Emergency management planning.
- Audits and checks on Health and Safety activities.
- Health and Safety Committee meeting template
Health and Safety Manual Training
We offer a two-hour training session on our health and safety manual to support you to use it effectively. This session covers all aspects including what is required to keep it up to date and compliant. We have found this to be an effective tool in supporting organisations to get started with using the system.
The forms we provide are in an editable format, so you can continue to tailor the Health and Safety System to your business.