Health, Safety & Environmental services provided by SMSE

Safety Management System Essentials (SMSE) consultants provide a broad range of professional workplace health safety & environmental management services to the construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, service and non-profit work sectors at competitive rates.

SMSE tertiary qualified / certified consultant auditors each have in excess of 20 years of cross-industry experience providing professional health, safety & environmental risk management services associated with the development and/or continuous improvement of:

• Workplace health safety & environmental management systems (WHSEMS)
• Consultative and communication mechanisms
• Risk management of plant, equipment, hazardous chemicals [and substances] and associated tasks
• Workplace health safety & environmental management system audits and specific hazard / compliance audits
• Incident investigations
• Safe work procedures & method statements (SWP & SWMS), handbooks and practices. [SWMS are a minimum requirement for high risk construction work or 'live' electrical work]
• Emergency management systems
• Contractor management
• Personnel training

SMSE Services: Workplace health safety & environmental management systems (WHSEMS) include:

• Conducting a gap analysis of your current WHSEMS against all relevant legislative/regulatory obligations, codes of practice and industry leading practice standards including but not limited to AS/NZS 4801, AS/NZS14001, National Self Insurer OHS Standard and NSW Gov't OHSMS Guidelines (Prequalification or Registered Accreditation)
• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing your WHSEMS and/or system components where needed to comply with the above
• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing your Site WHS Management Plan, a legislative requirement for construction projects involving work exceeding $250,000 in value

SMSE Services: Consultative and communication mechanisms

• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing your consultative / communication mechanisms in reference with all relevant legislation and industry leading practice

SMSE Services: Risk management

• Undertaking all risk management tasks including 'broad brush' hazard / risk profiling and risk assessments of plant, equipment, tools, hazardous chemicals and associated tasks, etc
• Developing and documenting prioritised management action strategies and plans to achieve the recommended corrective actions and opportunities for improvement derived from the above

SMSE Services: Management audits

• Undertaking WHSEMS compliance audits to relevant legislative/regulatory obligations, codes of practice and industry leading practice standards including but not limited to AS/NZS 4801, AS/NZS14001, National Self Insurer OHS Standard and NSW Gov't OHSMS Guidelines (Prequalification or Registered Accreditation)
• Undertaking electrical compliance audits to WHS Legislation, AS/NZS 3000 and other relevant standards
• Undertaking plant safety (guarding and tagout/lockout) compliance audits to WHS Legislation, AS 4024 and other relevant standards
• Developing and documenting prioritised management action strategies and plans to achieve the recommended corrective actions and opportunities for improvement derived from the above

SMSE Services: Incident Investigations

• Investigating and reporting on incidents incorporating the identification of root causes, contributing factors and actions needed to prevent recurrence
• Developing and documenting prioritised management action strategies and plans to achieve the recommended corrective actions and opportunities for improvement derived from the above

Other SMSE Services include:

• Mentoring management [Directors, PCBUs and line management] on duty of care, due diligence, legal privilege and other obligations under WHS and other Legislation
• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing job safety & environmental analysis (JSEA), safe work procedures (SWP), safe work method statements (SWMS), handbooks and practices
• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing emergency management [crises management and business continuity] strategies and plans
• Developing, documenting and/or reviewing contractor management strategies and plans
• Conducting a training needs analysis of employees and developing a training plan to address any identified training deficiencies
• Facilitating the delivery of training required to ensure compliance with the level of workforce skills and knowledge required under legislative obligations and industry leading practice

SMSE Training

The range of SMSE training available includes legislative awareness training (general duties, risk management and consultation, etc) and the use of high risk plant [pressure vessels, compressed gas cylinders and lifting equipment etc] and task [elevated risk] specific training [inc: working at heights, demolition, confined spaces, hazardous atmospheres, mobile plant/pedestrian traffic management, working on live electrical equipment/installations, etc]
Website: Bill Collison / Jeff Marley