Category: Corporate Governance

Organisational culture and getting value from audits

No-one enjoys having their work criticised. No manager or supervisor likes to be told that the area they are responsible for is…

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System Implementation or Skills Transfer

With organisations facing ever-increasing pressure to analyse the cost-benefit in every area of their business, the cost of management system implementation is…

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Looking ahead to 2019

While there are no major legislative overhauls expected in 2019, Safe Work Australia’s review of the model WHS laws is due to…

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Chain of Responsibility Update

As of October 1st 2018, the much-anticipated changes to the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Chain of Responsibility (CoR) rules took effect.…

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Reputational risk from supply chains

How many times have we heard Apple come under fire because of terrible employee health and safety practices at supplier factories in…

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Looking Forward - Legislation

As we approach July 1st the Queensland WHS Legislative context will be adjusted with the restoration of the status of the various…

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Optimising Management Review

All management system standards include some form of requirement for a Management Review. The requirement is generally framed as; ‘Top management shall…

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Heavy Vehicle ‘Chain of Responsibility’

As mentioned in the October edition of Insight, in mid-2018 the requirements of the Heavy Vehicle National Legislation are changing. Now is…

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Legislative changes pending ...

There is a suite of legislative and other changes in the pipeline as we head toward 2018. Work Health and Safety Legislation…

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