Category: News

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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Why do we look in the rear-view mirror so much?

When it comes to safety performance why do organisations persist in focusing mostly on what they have done and where they have…

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Safety auditing and professional judgement

The current version of the ISO 19011 Guidelines for auditing management systems includes the points that “Auditors should apply professional judgement during…

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Virtual Auditing

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged a great many tried-and-(no longer)-true systems of work. One of these is conducting external or third party…

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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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Business Continuity in a Pandemic: A Case Study

As we come out of COVID-19 isolation, leaving our ‘working from home’ havens and stepping through the staged return to our ‘new…

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Due Diligence – Compliance and Verification

Over the previous two issues we have been exploring Officers’ Due Diligence requirements from Sec 27 of the WHS Act. After analysing…

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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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Worker Mental Wellbeing in Times of Isolation

A high proportion of calls calls made to mental health support lines since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns began have been related to…

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