What are the benefits for OHS Manual purchasers?

When implemented thoroughly, you will receive significant benefits from the OHS Manual, such as:

• A safer workplace
• Safer workers
• Reduced likelihood of injuries and fatalities
• A culture of organisational safety
• Improved working conditions for staff
• Improved legislative compliance
• Improved organisational performance

Implementing a health and safety manual is the smartest thing you can do in your organisation.

It saves lives, saves money and reduces stress. It helps keep your workplace engaged with health and safety and helps change the culture (one of the hardest things to do, as you may know!) It also helps your organisation comply with legislation, which is highly important!

Imagine, your safety inductions happening on time every time, employees reporting hazards and near misses – when they occur, tool box meetings happening regularly, the safest products and substances being purchased each and every time, your people thinking and talking safety, and every level of management fully engaged and committed to ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. These are just some of the benefits of IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT OHS MANUAL.  

What does the LAW say?

Every health and safety Act in Australia says you MUST provide and MAINTAIN a workplace that is safe and without harm. That is the LAW! MAINTAINING A SAFE WORKPLACE needs a systematic approach – a system to work with that captures the right information and keeps you pointed in the right direction. Your OHS Manual is the very thing that will help you the most.

Being audited

Just think:
When an Inspector drops in unannounced and wants to have a look through your workplace, you can show him / her the system you have put in place, the hazards you have already identified, the risks you have already controlled and the safe environment you have created.

When your Insurance company wants to assess your health and safety system before they re-issue your annual policy, and they often do, you will be proud to show them the achievements instead of trying to bluff your way through.

When you are going for a large tender (you know, the one that will buy you the yacht you’ve always wanted), and they send you a lengthy OHS questionnaire to fill out to see if you are the right company to deal with; You will be able to fill out the questions legitimately instead of trying to make it up and hoping they don’t ask for copies of your OHS ‘documents’. Not filling this out legitimately could ruin your opportunities.

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Who needs an OHS Manual?

Once you employ people you must, by law, ensure a safe and healthy place for them to work. Your OHS Manual, with all its Procedures, Forms, Registers, and Templates, helps you create this very outcome.

Keeping people safe does not happen by chance; Injuries don’t happen by chance, either. You design the outcome you want for your business.

Remember: Workplace safety is in your hands… so get our Manual into your hands as well!

What do I get for my money?

With most Procedures there is a least one Form or Register that needs filling out periodically. Just to make it as easy as we can, we have produced a 4-5 minute video clip on each one. Each video clip will focus on certain points in the Procedure, explaining;

• Why the Procedure is needed
• What Forms & Registers are attached to it
• Why the Forms & Registers are required
• Where they go after they are filled in
• What is to be done with the information
• How they interweave with each other
• How it impacts on management
• How it makes the organisation safer

For instance Under Procedure P5.1 Hazard Identification & Risk Control Form F5.1 Hazard Report is to be filled out by employees and anyone else who spots a hazard or near miss in your workplace 2. The hazard spotter gives the Hazard Report to the local Supervisor who investigates and consults with employees about ways to eliminate or minimise to problem. The Supervisor signs off the Hazard Report and gives it to the OHS officer/manager/admin person, then discusses with the local employees & contractors present what was done to fix the problem. The OHS officer/manager/admin person enters a small amount of the data from the Hazard Report into Form F5.1.2 Hazard Register, then files away the Hazard Report Just prior to the next management the current Hazard Register information will be summarised and given to management so they have real OHS data to discuss. 6. The same summary will be provided to the OHS committee to be put on the Agenda for discussion. This is the information flow that is auditable with a clear ‘paper trail’ so the people in the organisation are not only able to see what they have achieved, but can use that data to help reduce or remove hazards in the future. We run through this and more to fully kit you up!!