O H & S  Legal Compliance - Assessment & Advice    

Does your business measure up?  

The Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000 and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 introduce new and additional obligations which demand the attention of all employers throughout NSW. 

In particular the new legislation requires employers to consult with employees on all matters that have the potential to affect health, safety and welfare and requires employers to take employees’ views on OHS issues into account as part of the decision making process. The legislation also provides employees with a right to be directly involved in the processes used by the employer to identify, assess and control hazards, and in determining the best way to control these hazards. 

Not only must the risk management system developed and implemented by the employer provide for the active involvement of employees, the health and safety risks identified, must be addressed through a properly functioning and documented management system. 

If you are a managing director, CEO, general manager, board member or your hold a position which makes you in any way responsible for the management of an organization, then you need to know what OHS laws require of you and your operation. You also need to know if your organization is complying with the legal requirements and if not what must be done to make sure that it does.

Services:

ErgoFit can help you in this regard by offering the following services

• Boardroom briefings covering Due Diligence and OHS and Workers
  Compensation Compliance

• Advice and assistance to negotiate constructive formal consultation mechanisms
  Review and advice on the compliance of existing OHS systems, policies, procedures.

• OHS Compliance Audits against the specific requirements of OHS Regulation 2001 Strategic risk management advice.

• Specialised OHS training for senior managers

OH&S Compliance for Small Business:

Position Your Business:

Managing occupational health & safety is critical to the successful running of any business no matter what its size.

All employers are required by law to make sure that they have a healthy and safe workplace, free from potential harm. You also have specific obligations to inform and train all staff and contractors in safe systems of work.

Including OH&S in business planning is essential, to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, and to avoid significant business losses resulting from the cost of a workplace injury or illness.

Sound OH&S practices can save you time and money. What's more, including OH&S in business planning will support improved business performance, help to develop positive relationships with employees, contractors and industry and enhance the overall productivity and competitiveness of your business.

Ergo Fit can assist you meet your legal obligations by designing simple OH&S strategies and systems tailored to suit your business.

Let Ergo Fit use the expertise we have at our fingertips to take the worry out of your business.

You may require help developing some of the following:

OH&S Compliance for Contractors:

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Data of employment trends over the past decade shows that contracting out of work is a growing phenomenon.

While this is not new in the construction industry, what is new is WorkCover's and the Court's commitment to ensuring that everyone assumes their legal obligation for the prevention of workplace injuries and deaths.

While as a contractor, your contribution to the overall completion of a project may only be small, your contribution to site safety can be significant.

Principal contractors are increasingly aware of both their own and their contractors responsibilities for ensuring that OH&S management systems are in place.

You have probably noticed that more and more often you are being required to define your OH&S management systems and describe your safe work procedures as a requirement of the tendering specification.

The OHS Act 2000 and OHS Regulation 2001 now make it mandatory on all construction projects greater than $250,000 for a Principal Contractor to require each sub-contractor, before commencing work, to provide a written safe work method statement for the work to be carried out.

The safe work method statement must describe how the work is to be carried out, identify the work activities assessed as having safety risks, identify the safety risks and describe the control measures that will be applied.

So to successfully tender in this already competitive market you now have to have a well documented but flexible OH&S system and a set of clearly written but adaptable Safe Work Method Statements for each job you will be carrying out.

Ergo Fit can help you to document a set of Standard Safe Working Procedures and a set of generic Safe Work Method Statements that can then easily be adapted to each new site.

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