WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY
Independent proof your safety controls actually work.
ORM Safety turns complex WHS obligations into controls your people actually use. Independent audits, critical control verification, safety systems and investigations.
SEVEN CONTROL STATES
01 Designed
02 Present
03 Used
04 Functional
05 Reliable
06 Effective
07 Assured
The first state a control fails to reach is the finding, and it is almost never the first one.
Since 2015
Independent consultancy
25+ years
WHS and operational risk
Investigations
Lead Investigator
Principal-led
Every engagement
Vic and model WHS
Both regimes, kept separate
THE PROBLEM
Most businesses don't have a safety problem. They have a safety paperwork problem.
The documents exist. But the SWMS doesn't match the job, the risk register hasn't been touched in two years, and if a regulator walked on site tomorrow nobody could show how a control is actually being enforced. That gap between the paperwork and the work is where incidents happen, and where prosecutions land.
“Most organisations don't need another safety system. They need someone to tell them, with evidence, whether the one they have is working.”
David Hopkins · Founder and Principal Consultant
SERVICES
Start with what's happening.
Most people call because something has happened. These are four of the seven situations we work on. Find the one closest to yours.
01 · INCIDENTS
An investigation that finds which controls failed and why, started while the evidence is still fresh.
02 · BOARDS AND OFFICERS
Six questions your board should be able to answer, and the evidence behind each.
03 · PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK
Assessed with your people and built into the safety system you already run.
04 · SAFETY LEADERSHIP
The same senior person, a fixed number of days a month, in the forums where safety gets traded.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS
Find it. Fix it. Keep it honest.
Three offers that work as one line: diagnose the problem that keeps coming back, fix the few things that matter, and report plainly on whether it held.
01
ASSESS
Safety Reality Assessment
Four weeks, one material problem, diagnosed properly.
02
FIX
The ORM Method
The critical few priorities, each with an owner, a sequence and a forum that will ask about it.
03
KEEP IT HONEST
Monitor
Reporting that says plainly whether the risk actually changed, not just whether a number moved.
FOR BOARDS AND EXECUTIVES
Could you show a regulator how you know your controls are working?
Officers carry personal legal exposure for safety in every Australian jurisdiction. It is not enough for the organisation to be compliant. You have to be able to show how you know it is, and that is a different question from whether the paperwork is in order.
Six questions your board should be able to answer
02 Do we understand what could kill someone here?
03 Is our safety structure and resourcing proportionate to our risk?
04 Does bad news reach us quickly, and unfiltered?
05 Does the safety management system support how we actually operate?
06 How do we know any of this is true?
01 Are we current?