Services
- Development of management systems
- Risk assessments and improvement plans for safety and health
- Provision of technical and safety assessment services (safety management systems)
- Provision of on-site OHS advisor/general HSE support
Development of Management Systems
Health and safety
Environment
Quality
Security
What it's about (Objective/Purpose)
- Assisting the client effectively implement a management system for their operations
- Advising the client on how to improve its existing management system to conform to the relevant AS/ISO standard and to implement an improvement program to ensure the client's management system is suitable for the certification process
- Ensuring compliance with regulations – to carry out an assessment of the client's management systems and to assist the client to meet standards required by the regulations.
- Providing a focused action plan to improve management and the effectiveness of training
- Provision of management system support:
• Consulting and facilitation roles for the development, implementation, and integration of quality, OHS, security, and environmental management systems
• Second and third party auditing of management systems
• RABQSA-registered Lead and Internal Auditor training
• Placement of short term professionals to assist with management system development and implementation projects
What we can do (Scope/Methodology)
- Initial system review and gap analysis
- Training needs analysis
- Develop and finalise a recommended action plan (Improvement Program)
- Implement task identified according to the Program
- Document development (manuals, procedures, handbooks)
- Development of training material and training program
- Clarify roles and responsibilities for the certification process (if applicable)
- Prepare final report to management
- Provide support services on an as-needs basis and ensure a continuity of personnel to ensure maximum efficiency is provided
What the client gets (Deliverables)
- Audit including a gap analysis against industry, company or AS/ISO standards
- Key stakeholders being well-informed and consulted
- Improvement Program
- A management system suitable to the client incorporating the client's existing management system where possible
- Certification
- A final report recording the process of the Improvement Plan
- Management System Manual
- System processes and the associated operational procedures including the relevant forms, checklists, and registers
- Training materials and a training program
- Hand-over strategy to ensure the momentum of the program implementation is not lost
Who does it
Sustainability's Principal/Senior Advisors and consultants
Risk assessments and safety improvement plans
Safety improvement plans
Site safety standards
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
What it's about (Objective/Purpose)
- Qualitative safety risk assessment of a site's activities and operations:
• develop a risk profile and risk register of significant risks
• provide a concise expert's report that can be used by management to identify, prioritise, address, and control risks - Developing and implementing site safety standards in accordance with an established format
- Review/re-draft a site's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
What we can do (Scope/Methodology)
Risk assessment
- Comprehensive site inspection to assess workplace hazards
- Review of hazards in the context of existing risk assessment
- Formal quantitative risk assessment
- Identification of hazards that should be addressed by site safety standards
Site safety standards
- Drafting of site safety standards
- Drafting of training packages to support each standard
- Drafting of audit protocols for each standard
Standard Operating Procedures
- Collate all existing site SOPs into one directory on a site server
- Redraft all existing SOPs into one agreed format
- Catalogue all existing SOPs in a document register
- Redraft SOPs, in close collaboration with site staff, to conform with new site safety standards
- Identify additional SOPs to address risks identified in formal quantitative risk assessment
- Catalogue new SOPs in document register
- Train staff to use document register to manage ongoing review process
What the client gets (Deliverables)
- Formal quantitative risk assessment
- Site safety standards
- Site safety standards training presentation
- Site safety standards audit protocols
- Document register for site SOPs
- Redrafted site SOPs
Who does it
Sustainability's Principal/Senior Advisors and consultants
Technical and safety assessment services (safety management systems)
Safety management system auditing
Safety management systems
Fatality prevention elements
Risk management plans
Quality management system
Security plan
Schedule of internal audit activities/internal audit program
HAZOP/HAZID
HSE
What it's about (Objective/Purpose)
- Providing various specialised technical and safety assessment services in:
• safety management system auditing
• safety management systems
• quality management systems
• OHS and risk management
- Developing a risk management plan based on a recognised risk assessment methodology and comprehensive workshops, including the development of a quality management system, a security plan and a schedule of internal audit activities that will form the basis of an internal audit program, all with priorities based on the assessed levels of risk
- Benchmarking clients within its industry and against similar industries
What we can do (Scope/Methodology)
- Design, implementation, and review of safety management systems
- Develop occupational health and safety management and hazard management systems to recognised standards (OHSAS 18001, AS/NZS 4801, AS/NZS ISO 9000, AS/NZS4581, NOSA 5 Star Rating System, DNV-ISRS) and auditing the same
- Provide effective links to certification bodies
- Provide on-site technical support throughout implementation phases
Safety management system auditing
- Gap analysis - evaluate, compare and report on current practices at specific client sites and to compare with best practice at other sites and industry operations
- Provide accredited certification auditors in the areas of safety, environment, and quality management, and the delivery of auditor and risk management training
- Gain a baseline understanding (via audit and gap analyses) of a client's safety and hazard management systems across their operations, relative to the appropriate standards and industry benchmarks.
- Develop a safety and hazard management systems improvement plan and a corporate health, safety and environment audit protocol
Safety management systems
- Review existing safety resources, then develop and implement a safety management system for a client's site – coordinate the site's certification to AS4801 Safety Management Systems
- Develop major hazard standards including training of employees and providing implementation support to the OHS and operating departments
- Develop a comprehensive series of fatality prevent elements to assist in defining the safety requirements to minimize the risk of experiencing fatal incidents:
- Develop a series of standardised approaches to managing key risk areas which can contribute to fatal incidents
- Develop a guideline document for each fatality prevent element – a general description/guideline on how to implement each requirement, and provision of generic forms /proformas for conducting critical assessments and recording information
- Develop documentation for conducting a gap analysis on each fatality prevention element including the range of records and document required to demonstrate that a process has been established to manage the requirements, and detail the actions/processes which should be evaluated
Risk management planning
- Facilitate the development and implementation of the client's risk management plan, quality management system, and security plan, and provide a schedule of recommended internal audit activities
- Prepare a HAZOP process in compliance with client standards:
- Identify potential hazard or operability matters by systematically reviewing the system diagrams, processes, operating environment, and associated documentation and to recommend appropriate actions so that the facilities operational and safety systems are suitable.
- As an integral part of the client's safety management system, provide a record of the HAZID/HAZOP review
- Prepare a HSE plan
- Conduct safety reviews
- Prepare HSE requirements for contractors, and evaluate and audit bidders
- Conduct project safety reviews at important and agreed project milestones
- Ensure that all relevant safety studies are carried out and their results incorporated into design
- Ensure that all HAZOP recommendations are addressed in design or operating procedures
- Prepare safety case
What the client gets (Deliverables)
- The autonomous review of relevant procedures, manuals, standards, safety management plan and other relevant documents
- Review and evaluation of work practices and activities in accordance with recognised standards and recognised industry benchmarks.
- Written HAZOP and approvals procedures and project team training presentations
- Project hazard management improvement plan
- Quality Management System
- Risk Management Plan with detailed methodology
- Security Plan
- Schedule of Internal Audit Activities
- Provide written HAZOP report and gap analysis presentation.
Who does it
Sustainability's Principal/Senior Advisors and consultants
Provision of on-site Safety advisor/general HSE support
What it's about (Objective/Purpose)
- Providing site-based OHS safety advisor personnel in a temporary or contractual arrangement
What we can do (Scope/Methodology)
- Operate and maintain site OHS systems and conduct safety inductions for visitors, contractors and new personnel
- Administer, maintain and support implementation of the safety management system and procedures on site
What the client gets (Deliverables)
- Temporary technical and project HSE support and personnel for projects being developed, or operating projects experience trouble with systems or if replacing OHS positions
Who does it
Sustainability's experienced HSE advisors