QRMC Risk Management provides professional advice on OHS management including development of systems compliant with AS/NZS 4801 Occupational health and safety management systems, and auditing against AS/NZS 4801 or other frameworks such as the National Self-Insurance OHS Audit Tool (NAT). Audits of systems or specific operations are intended to maximise the potential for improvement by incorporating formal gap analyses and recommendations.

Services include:

1. ‣Compliance with the harmonised Work Health and Safety legislation (refer below)
   

2. ‣Development, review and implementation of OHS Management Systems (refer also Management Systems)
   

3. ‣Occupational Health and Safety Audits (including self insurance audits and electrical safety audits)
   

4. ‣Gap analysis of existing systems or processes against legislative requirements, best practice or other benchmarks, including development of recommendations for improvement
   

5. ‣Training of management and staff in relation to Health and Safety obligations and responsibilities
   

6. ‣Site Safety Assessments
   

7. ‣Plant Risk Assessments and Plant Sale Hazard Reports
   

8. ‣Critical Incident Investigation and Management
   

9. ‣Ergonomic Assessments and Manual Handling Controls
   

10. ‣CSG and mining industry project safety management and safety risk assessments.
    

QRMC works in compliance with the standard AS/NZS 4801 Occupational health and safety management systems as well as the relevant OHS legislation for your jurisdiction and any standards or codes of practice relevant to your industry.

Harmonised Work Health and Safety legislation

After a long process of consultation and review, the new model Work Health and Safety Act and Regulation were finalised in late 2011, and have come into force in some states.

In some areas, the new legislation differs substantially from the previous Act, and imposes increased obligations on ‘persons conducting a business or undertaking' (PCBUs). It is therefore important for all organisations to ensure that their occupational health and safety management systems are appropriately reviewed and redeveloped.

QRMC can assist by providing any of the following range of services:

1. ‣Undertake a compliance review of the work your organisation has undertaken to date on updating your systems, to check that all new regulatory requirements will be met
   

2. ‣Undertake a gap analysis against the requirements of the new legislation, covering existing systems and/or contractual obligations which have not yet been reviewed
   

3. ‣Review and revise OHSMS procedures and documentation to incorporate the new requirements
   

4. ‣Develop and/or deliver training for ‘Officers’ of the organisation to ensure they are informed of, and familiar with, their significantly enhanced duties and responsibilities under the revised OHSMS
   

5. ‣Develop and/or deliver staff awareness sessions so that all workers are aware of their OHS duties and responsibilities
   

6. ‣Assist in implementing the revised occupational health and safety management system, and provide training for staff to embed the changes
   

7. ‣Revise the corporate governance processes for Boards and executive management.