WHS Expertise Without a Full-Time Hire
For businesses that need experienced WHS expertise available regularly, without carrying the cost and management of a full-time internal safety role.
Who this is for
- Businesses too large for ad hoc safety management, too small for a full-time WHS manager
- Operations managers who need someone to call before making a decision
- Businesses with client obligations requiring demonstrable ongoing oversight
- Organisations whose system decays between audits
Problems it solves
- Safety attended to only when something goes wrong
- No one to call when an unusual question comes up
- Systems that drift out of date between reviews
- Corrective actions that never get closed because nobody owns them
What is included
- Scheduled reviews and inspections at an agreed frequency
- Documentation maintenance and updates as your work changes
- Advice on incidents, hazards and unusual questions as they arise
- Audit and prequalification preparation
- Support for safety meetings and management reporting
- Contractor documentation review
What you receive
- An agreed support schedule with defined inclusions
- Regular review and inspection reports
- Maintained, current documentation
- Management reporting on safety performance
Process
How the engagement runs
- 01
Initial consultation
We talk through your operations, your obligations and what has prompted the work. No charge, no obligation.
- 02
Scope and quote
You receive a written scope with a fixed price or a clear rate, so there are no surprises later.
- 03
Review
We examine your existing documentation, records and arrangements before we set foot on site.
- 04
Assessment
Onsite or remote assessment against your legal obligations and how work is actually performed.
- 05
Findings and recommendations
A prioritised report you can act on, written in plain English rather than legislative quotes.
- 06
Follow-up support
We stay available to help close out actions, brief your managers or re-check the work once it is done.
FAQs
Ongoing WHS Support questions we are asked
- What is included in ongoing support?
- Inclusions are agreed with you in writing before the arrangement starts, because a five-person business and a fifty-person business need very different levels of involvement. Typical arrangements cover scheduled site inspections, documentation maintenance, ad hoc advice, audit preparation and management reporting.
- Is this cheaper than employing a WHS manager?
- For many small and mid-sized businesses, yes, because you pay for the involvement you need rather than a full salary, on-costs and management overhead. Whether it is right for you depends on the volume of work. If you genuinely need someone on site every day, employ someone, and we will tell you that.
- Can we start with a project and move to ongoing support?
- That is the most common path. An audit or system build establishes the baseline, and ongoing support keeps it current.
Related services
Industries we apply this in
Next step
Need safety expertise on call?
Ongoing support keeps your system current instead of rebuilding it every audit cycle.