Consultation and Advisory Services
Our comprehensive consulting services and expertise can provide practical health and safety solutions for your workplace. We work alongside your team to deliver the best outcomes and understand that not every business requires a full-scale consulting process. We tailor our approach to meet your needs and address the challenges relevant to your workplace. We provide expert advice and support when you need it. Whether the task is big or small, we have you covered!
General Consultancy
We offer comprehensive health and safety support services designed to empower your organisation with the tools and expertise needed to create a healthy and safe workplace. Our H&S experts provide practical solutions, working alongside your team to ensure you get the right support where you need it. With our expertise you gain a dedicated resource that not only ensures you comply with regulatory standards but supports your organisation to build a culture of health and safety excellence.
Let’s talk today about how we can best support your team!
Health and Safety Systems Audit
Gain clarity and confidence with a comprehensive Health and Safety System Audit. Our Audits provide an in-depth review of your organisation’s H&S system and culture. The Audit will involve an onsite visit to meet with the main H&S drivers and site tour followed by a review of H&S paperwork. The result is a comprehensive report being produced with clear recommendations regarding identified gaps.
Benchmarking data is also included offering insights into where your organisation stands against a data set based on sector and size. With our expert guidance, you can ensure that your workplace is compliant, safe, and conducive to the well-being of your employees.
What we offer:
- An in-depth review of your organisation’s Health and Safety system and culture.
- Look at your organisation’s compliance under the legislation, measuring against the six due diligence obligations set in place by the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) under section 44.
- Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations of clear actions to ensure improvements are achieved.
- Develop a comprehensive audit report to form the basis of your Health and Safety Strategy.
- Provide Benchmark results so you can see where your workplace sits against data sets for your size and sector
What the Audit covers
- The Health and Safety System
- Officer Due Diligence
- Documented activities and meetings
- Inductions
- Hazard and Risk Management
- Accident and Incident Management
- Emergency Procedures
- Worker Engagement
- Training
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Contractor Management
- Management of Change
- Culture and Leadership
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
The Audit Process
Onsite Audits take between 5-6 hours. Upon completion of the audit process a comprehensive report is prepared by the auditor and will be issued within 14 days.
Meet the team onsite
Onsite activities include:
- Meeting with main H&S driver
- Site Tour
- Short discussions with H&S Committee, officers, and senior leaders.
Review the paperwork
Paperwork review includes:
- H&S policies and procedures
- H&S meeting minutes
- Hazard Risk Register
- Risk Assessment
- Accident Register
- Incident investigations
- Induction Records
- Training records
Audit Report Produced
The written report includes:
- Executive Summary
- Overall grading and scoring
- Observations
- Recommendations for Improvement
- Benchmark results – against data sets for your sector and size
Risk Workshops
Do you need to create or build upon your risk register? How do you know if the controls in place are working? If you would like to gain insight about the risks and hazards in your workplace, how harmful they are and if the controls are in place and working, then this interactive workshop is a great place start. The results are a draft risk register with clear actions to make H&S improvements.
Our workshop involves a comprehensive record of the risks from a range of perspectives. Information gathered is then used in the creation of an effective risk register.
Our consultant facilitates the process, drawing on the expertise and knowledge of your team. We make it relevant, interesting and interactive. Together we will:
- Identify as many hazards and associated risks as possible
- Assess the risk and impact of each hazard and rate against a matrix
- Identify controls, (those in place and those needed)
- Establish monitoring expectations
For the best results, it is important to involve all key stakeholders from across the organisation and at all levels, including most importantly, those closest to the risk: workers
The output is a draft risk register and actions to improve health and safety. This can be verified, and monitoring measures assigned.
The Risk Assessment workshop is an opportunity for networking across departments, exchanging ideas and creating a shared understanding. This process brings the team together and results in an instructive health and safety resource for your business.
Each organisation is different and so each workshop is different too! We tailor each workshop to your organisation shape and size.
Prequalification support
Are you a contractor needing support with PREQUAL? Let us take the hassle out of the prequalification process. With a friendly knowledgeable approach, we can give your organisation the best chance of success. We have you covered!
What we Offer-
- Support to decide what prequalification you need.
- Assistance with your preparation to go through PREQUAL.
- Team of committed H&S professionals with practical prequalification experience. (Totika, SiteWise and other PREQUAL processes).
- Friendly, knowledgeable approach to give your organisation the best chance of success
The benefit of PREQUAL for Contractors
- Increase financial opportunities – only contractors who are registered as ‘prequalified’ are eligible to tender for government contracts.
- Improves your reputation as a safe workplace
- Saves time – allows you to clearly identify which jobs are best suited to your skills and resources.
- Increases client confidence in your ability to deliver work safety.
- Goodwill and resilience in business, independent proof of H&S compliance.
Prequalification
Prequalification enables contractors to demonstrate they have been independently assessed and can be trusted to work safely.
The prequalification registers enable client organisations to make informed contactor selections and simplifies the tendering process for all involved.
Below are links to the two main registers:
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.
Psychosocial Risk Workshop
All business has psychosocial factors that impact workers both positive and negative. In this workshop we will support you to take a proactive approach in identifying and understanding what the main psychosocial factors are in your workplace and how to minimise the negative impacts.
This workshop involves two sessions
- Planning session: discussion on information gathering and prework for the workshop session
- Half day workshop where we analysis, identify and develop
Our consultant facilitates the process, drawing on the expertise and knowledge of your team. We make it relevant, interesting and interactive. Together we will:
- Create a common understanding of what is meant by psychosocial factors.
- Using three main categories we will work with your team and information gathered to identify the psychosocial risks within your workplace. These categories are
- Work design – organisation for employee’s tasks, activities and responsibilities.
- Relationships – culture of the workplace. Interpersonal relationships between employees and relationships workers have with different systems at work.
- Work environment – physical aspects of the work environment. Is the workplace set up effectively.
- Assess the risk and impact of factors identified.
- Identify controls, (those in place and those needed)
The output is a draft psychosocial action plan which can be verified, and monitoring measures assigned.
For the best results:
We recommend key stakeholders from across the organisation, at all levels are involved. It is important to capture inputs from across the workplace to ensure a well-rounded perspective.
Each organisation is different and so each workshop is different too! We tailor each workshop to your organisation shape and size.
Health & Safety Strategy Development and Annual Planning
We often find our clients are struggling to create a clear strategy to meet their H&S goals. Your system maybe developing, improving, or maintaining, no matter where you are, a review of the previous year and plan for the year ahead is essential.
Health and safety plans should include but are not limited to:
- Specific goals and objectives
- All areas of your system (Governance, worker engagement, risk management, contractor management, etc)
- Actions with task owners
- Timeframes and deadlines
- How you will track and measure performance
We can support you through this process.
Contractor Management
When you engage contractors and/or sub-contractors, a contractor safety management system should be part of your business processes. These systems can look very different depending on your businesses industry, nature, operations, and risks. Our experienced consultants can ensure you have the correct systems in place to manage your contractors and ensure they are working safely with the correct risk mitigations and controls in place.
- How do you know your contactors are maintaining all applicable licenses and insurance?
- Are they meeting health and safety expectations?
- Are you and your contractors aware of risk mitigations and controls?
- Are new contractor orientations and relevant training taking place?
If you’re not sure on any of the above questions, or feel there is room for improvement, let’s discuss how we can assist you.
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.