Category: Corporate Governance

“5S”ing your SMS

Management Systems, at their best should be simple, structured, user-friendly enablers of efficient operational practice. However, all too often they become as…

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Managing Corrective and Preventative Actions

Whether its safety, quality or environmental management, a key indicator of an organisation’s performance is how it manages its corrective and preventative…

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Don’t Let Your Management System Hang You Out to Dry

Maintaining your safety, environmental and quality management systems is a big job. In many cases it is a full-time occupation and most…

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A ‘How To’ for Management Review

Management Review is one of the best explained and worst applied sections of the management system suite of International Standards (ISO9001:2015, ISO45001:2018,…

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Due Diligence – what are ‘appropriate resources and process’?

Last month we explored the ‘Officers’ Due Diligence requirements, paraphrasing Sec 27 of the WHS Act, to detail that ‘Officers’ are required…

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Due Diligence – what it means and what needs to be done

Last year a number of Royal Commissions placed the actions of Directors, Executives and ‘Officers’ into the spotlight. Drawing upon the findings…

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Audit Fatigue

All organisations with established management systems have some form of auditing program that incorporates internal audits, external audits and, potentially, certification audits.…

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An Introduction to Change Management

How often have you heard the phrase “the only constant is change”? Trite but true, this is an area in which modern…

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Comply Before Complain

Change might reasonably be thought of as the defining characteristic of the modern world. Changing regulatory, trade and economic contexts regularly prompt…

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