Safety Audits
Our consultants conduct detailed safety audits that promote better health and safety in the workplace.
Our consultants conduct detailed safety audits that promote better health and safety in the workplace.
Your Safety Partners provides thorough safety audits for businesses all over Australia. Our consultants are dedicated to creating safer workplaces through occupational health and safety audits. They utilise in-depth experience to identify hazards and risks and provide actionable advice on addressing these hazards quickly and effectively.
Safety audits aim to achieve four main objectives:
In general, every workplace requires some form of safety audit. Health and safety audits are imperative for keeping employees, management, customers, and visitors safe at all times. Audits are essential for businesses in construction, warehousing and logistics, events, manufacturing, healthcare, and much more. In case of an incident, they can used as evidence that your organisation is making a concerted effort to comply with legislation which is looked upon very favourably by safety authorities.
Our expert team of consultants have worked with a wide range of businesses, and conducted hundreds of work health and safety / occupational health and safety audits across Australia. We tailor audits to meet client needs and can include the following types:
We’ll take the time to ensure that any problems are identified quickly and quality advice is provided in clear terms.
Identifying hazards and putting controls in place to reduce risk is the corner stone of any safety system. Therefore, audits need to check that your processes are accomplishing this.
Undertaking a workplace inspection to identify hazard is revealing because it shines the light on the effectiveness or otherwise of your current safety processes.
The list hazards that an audit may identify depends on the type of workplace and often the industry in question. Common hazards our consultants encounter include:
Hazards create risk of harm to workers, and put owners and/or management at risk of prosecution. Identifying hazards helps pinpoint where your safety processes have failed and what needs to be addressed to prevent them from reoccurring.
Our team of safety professionals have decades of combined experience in creating safer workplaces. We have developed thorough processes for all our services, ensuring that our clients understand their obligations and have the knowledge required to create a safer environment for their most important asset – their people.
Our safety audit process are easily adapted to a wide range of workplaces and generally include the following steps:
The result is always a thorough assessment of your workplace, that provides actionable advice on creating a safer work environment and ensuring that you are compliant.
Some organisations require ISO45001 accreditation for tendering purposes or senior management simply want assurance the organisation is achieving the highest standard of safety.
We can audit your system against the standard and identify the gaps that need to be fixed in order to become accredited. We can also arrange accreditation audits with certifying bodies.
One the key benefits of working with Your Safety Partners is that we’ll work with you to close any gaps rather than just showing you the gaps. We can develop systems and processes to suit your organisation and have a vast array of safety system documentation which can be adapted to suit your organisation. This saves our clients enormous amounts of time and money.
We’re always here to help. Whether you require a warehouse safety audit or a construction site or operate manufacturing operations, our consultants have the experience and insights to provide accurate assessments and actionable recommendations. Get in touch with our team today.
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A workplace safety consultant can also ensure the owners and managers of businesses meet their safety compliance requirements. This helps protect them from compensation or legal costs.