Australian Risk Services is a multidisciplinary firm of occupational health and safety, environmental consulting, property risk and strategic commercial risk management.
With over 14 years of experience Australian Risk Services has completed numerous risk management programs during that time.
Strategic risk management
| Risk management is not just about minimising our risks, it is just as important that we focus on opportunities that we may benefit from when taking risks in business. Our capability is to assist organisations to develop a strategic direction throughout their commercial operations. Typical areas that are covered in this profiling include: |
- Organisational change issues
- Knowledge loss and management
- Prioritisation of project activities
- Impact of global events political & economic
- Corporate planning effectiveness
- Direction of commercial & competitive response strategies
- Market share growth & contraction
- Customer contracts, corporate accounts
- Commercial governance
- Financial risk: budgeting, cost control
- Technology risk: security, e-commerce
- Health & Safety
- Environment
- Regulatory risk
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Business continuity and disaster recovery
Australian Risk Services can assist clients in putting together business continuity plans that will ensure your company can continue to operate by providing the market with your goods or service with minimal disruption.
We do this by assisting clients to identify core corporate objectives and assess the impact of risks on those business processes that support your business objectives/outputs. This is commonly known as a Business Impact Assessment, which is the platform for formulating your business continuity plan (BCP).
As part of a sound BCP management must establish the right steering committees and ensure senior management support the project.
Following the BCP a disaster recovery plan can be developed ensuring resources is available and manoeuvred in such a way that recovery from a disaster is as soon as possible. Part of this process is testing your plans and ensuring that your plans remain up to date and relevant to your organisation.
BCP then identifies recovery alternatives that cost effectively restores critical business functions within an acceptable time frame.
Safety and environmental auditing and management systems
We have extensive experience in building safety & environmental management systems in accordance with Australian Standards and ISO 14001 and AS 4801.
An Environmental Management System (EMS) is a continual cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing and improving the processes and actions that an organisation undertakes to meet its business and environmental goals. Most EMSs are built on the "Plan, Do, Check, Act" model.
We assist our clients to:
- Establish an environmental policy appropriate to itself
- Identify the environmental aspects arising from the organisation's past, existing or planned activities, products or services, to determine the environmental impacts of significance
- Identify the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements
- Identify priorities and set appropriate environmental objectives and targets
- Establish a structure and (a) program(s) to implement the policy and achieve objectives and targets
- Facilitate planning, control, monitoring, corrective action, auditing and review activities to ensure both that the policy is complied with and that the environmental management system remains appropriate
- Be capable of adapting to changing circumstances
Behavioural culture surveys
| Safety Behavioral Culture Surveys (SBCS) are a series of structured questions designed to provide responses in a quantitative and qualitative ways. The questions are aimed at identifying the value of OHS at different levels in the organisation. The surveys provide areas on which to focus resources. SBCS also provide a baseline for evaluating the effectiveness of the Safety Program. |
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Methodology of Survey
The survey form comprises of a number of questions in relation to the following categories:
- Self - their own attitude & behavior
- Others - the attitude and behavior they observe of others
- Supervisor - their view of the supervisors commitment and approach
- Management - their view of management's commitment and approach
- Systems - their view of the systems in place for managing OHS
- Client/public sites - their view of OHS on client/public sites
- Injury Management - their view of the injury management process
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Help with self insurance
With the growth of risk management and the increased emphasis on finding the most appropriate technique for dealing with risk, alternatives to commercial insurance and to the traditional forms of retention have developed. These include self-insurance programs, captive insurers, risk-retention groups, and risk-sharing pools.
Over the past three decades, the use of self-insurance by business and other organisations in dealing with risk has grown significantly. In some areas, such as employer-sponsored health benefits for employees, it has become a major alternative to commercial insurance.
Property risk assessments
Australian Risk Services will assist you in developing security systems to protect your property and assets. We will ensure that your property meets the Building Code requirements and that adequate maintenance systems are in place to manage your property. Assessments for insurance underwriting are also offered. |
Process:
- Determine the assets to be protected
- Assess the threats to each of the assets categories
- Real vulnerabilities are then determined, that is, what threats expose what assets
- Maintenance & prevention plans
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We conduct Property risk assessments in the following areas:
- Plant Safety
- Fire Safety Systems
- Property Transfer
- Insurance/Underwriting
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Safety training
Time and time again, companies discover the hard way that safety and environmental training is good business. It is essential part of effective plant operations. But too often, training is not given the attention it deserves.
Because our training packages are written by working parties with years of experience, the quality and technical depth of these training resources is unmatched by the other commercial material. And because we provide training courses in-house, you save time and money.
A course delivered in-house costs less than other training methods. It is more convenient and more effective. It costs less because you don't have to send staff away on courses, it is convenient because you can hold courses when and where you want them; and it is effective because you can tailor the training to the exact needs of your personnel.
The training packages use an "active participation" method of training. Under the trainer's guidance, small groups of trainees discuss real case histories and important points, so that you can be sure everyone understands the training. Any lack of understanding quickly becomes apparent in the discussion sessions, so it it possible to identify this and remedy it. |
Risk management training
- Accident Investigation Training
- Confined Spaces Training
- Contractor Management Training
- Corporate Governance Training
- Dangerous Goods Training
- Environmental Training & ISO 14001 Training
- Ergonomics Training
- Executive Briefing Training
- Hazardous Substance Regulations Training
- Manual Handling Training
- OHS Act 2004 Training
- OHS and Risk Management Training
- Safety Committee Training
- Safety Map 4th Edition Auditing Training
- Shop Floor Basic Hazard Identification Training
- Supervisor Safety Training
- Working at Heights Training
- Working from Home Training
- Workplace Hazard I.D. Risk Assessment and Control Training
Plant risk assessments
Most OHS legislation requires the employer to identify hazards, assess the risks associated with the hazard, and where the hazard exposes a risk to health and safety of employees or the public, must implement controls to either eliminate or control the risks.
Plant code of practice provides practical guidance on how people can meet the requirements of the Occupational Health and safety (Plant) Regulations 1995. The aim of the Regulations is to protect people against the risks plant and associated systems of work can pose to their health or safety at work.
Plant is defined in the Regulations to cover items such lifts, cranes, pressure equipment, machinery, hoists, powered mobile plant, amusement structures, lasers, turbines, explosive-powered tools, scaffolds and temporary access equipment. The regulations do not cover ships, boats, aircraft, road and rail vehicles, hand-held plant, which relies exclusively on manual power for its operations. This code of practice only deals with the types of plant covered by the Regulations.
The Regulations require the identification of hazards, assessment of risks and control of risks posed by plant and associated systems of work. The regulations apply to designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers of plant, employers and self-employed persons. The code explains what these processes mean and how they can be performed by designers and employers.
Manual handling risk assessments
Manual handling tasks are responsible for a large proportion of work-related injuries and long-term health problems amongst workers, particularly women, in manufacturing industries. Manufacturing industries (especially the food and metals assembly sectors) are employing a large proportion of women entering the workforce.
In Victoria (with similar Federal requirements) the manual handling regulations and the two associated codes of practice (for manual handling; for occupational overuse syndrome) require all workplaces to carry out a three phase process of risk identification, risk assessment and control of identified manual handling risks
Manual handling covers a wide range of activities including lifting, pushing, pulling, holding, throwing and carrying. It includes repetitive tasks such as packing, typing, assembling, cleaning and sorting, using hand-tools, and operating machinery and equipment. Because most jobs involve some form of manual handling, most workers are at risk of manual handling injury. Of course, not all manual handling tasks are hazardous. But it is significant that around a quarter of all workplace injuries are caused by manual handling.
Hazardous substances risk assessments
The purpose of the Hazardous Substances Code of Practice is to help manufacturers, importers and suppliers of hazardous substances and employers using those substances, to meet the requirements of the Occupational health and Safety (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 1999, so as to protect people at work against risks to health from using hazardous substances.
You should consider this service if you are:
- Manufacturer of hazardous substances
- Supplier of hazardous substances
- Occupiers of premises where dangerous goods are stored and handled
- Health and safety representatives, employees and anyone else who has an interest in the risks to people or property posed by hazardous substances.
Hazardous substances are substances that have the potential to harm human health. They may be solid, liquids or gases; they may be pure substances or mixtures. When used in the workplace, these substances often generate vapours, fumes, dusts and mists. A wide range of industrial, laboratory and agricultural chemicals are classified as hazardous.
Dangerous goods risk assessments
The purpose of this Code of Practice is to help manufacturers and suppliers of dangerous goods and occupiers storing and handling these dangerous goods, to meet the requirement of the Dangerous Goods (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2000, so as to provide for the safe storage and handling of dangerous goods.
This Code of Practice is approved to take effect from 8 December 2000 - this being the date the duties of the Regulations commence.
- You should consider this service if you are:
Manufacturer of dangerous goods
- Supplier of dangerous goods
- Occupiers of premises where dangerous goods are stored and handled
- Health and safety representatives, employees and anyone else who has an interest in the risks to people or property posed by dangerous goods.
We work closely with our clients to ensure that staff is adequately involved in risk assessments and that they understand the process and requirements of law when conducting risk assessments.
Event risk management
The putting on of a major public or corporate event has significant risks in the setting up, operation of the event to the shut down of the event.
Australian Risk Services can assist you in managing risks at all stages of an event by the systematic identification of risks and implementation of appropriate controls.
Australian Risk Services works with key stakeholders involved in event management and assists clients in identifying key processes and placing such information into a project managed format. We do not take over the running of events but facilitate the processes by ensuring that risks are identified and managed correctly.
We pride ourselves in being able to reduce risk to a level that is as low as reasonably achievable while maintaining our client's ultimate goal of a successful production.
We assist our clients by reviewing their safety requirements as well as other key project management issues such as:
- Contract Risk
- Technology Risk
- Political & Regulatory Risk
- Property Risk
- Health & Safety Risk
- Environmental Risk
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