Savvy Business Health Check

Please complete this health check for a quick assessment of your Human Resources and OHS Management.

Human Resources

1. Do you have written employment agreements setting out the terms and conditions of employment for each employee?

Yes No

2. Are your employee agreements consistent with the Award or National Employment Standards (NES)?

Yes No

3. Do you have policies and procedures that set out the conditions of employment?

Yes No

4. Have all employment policies been reviewed for conformance with the Fair Work Act (FWA) or applicable State legislation and Awards?

Yes No

5. Do you have a reference for setting pay and conditions and are your pay and conditions consistent with market value?

Yes No

6. Do you have a set procedure for dealing with employee performance?

Yes No

7. Do you effectively document employee performance issues?

Yes No

8. Do you have a procedure for termination of employment?

Yes No

Sub Contractor

1. Do you have written agreements with sub contractors that set out the contractual relationship between the parties?

Yes No

2. Do any of your sub contractors meet the criteria for "deemed workers"?

Yes No

3. Do your sub contractors provide Safe Work Method Statements for all work performed?

Yes No

4. Do you have sub contractor evaluation procedures in place?

Yes No

OHS

1. Do you have a health and safety management system in place?

Yes No

2. Do you have a method of measuring your health and safety performance (i.e audit process)?

Yes No

3. Have you successfully completed an audit within the last 12 months?

Yes No

4. Do you have safe work method statements (SWMS / JSA) or safe work instructions (SWI) for all tasks and activities?

Yes No

5. Have all employees been trained to follow safe work methods?

Yes No

6. Do you regularly check employee performance against the safe work method statements?

Yes No

7. Do you have effective consultation with employees about OHS matters?

Yes No

8. Does your consultation procedure comply with relevant Regulations?

Yes No

9. Do you have an effective hazard, incident and injury reporting procedure in place?

Yes No

10. Have you completed a risk assessment (risk register) of all activities and identified risk controls required to improve health and safety?

Yes No

11. Do you have emergency procedures to cover all potential emergency situations?

Yes No

12. Have you tested your emergency evacuation procedures in the past 12 months?

Yes No

13. Do your first aid facilities comply with relevant Regulations?

Yes No

14. Do you have an ongoing OHS action plan?

Yes No

Construction

1. Do you have a site safety management plan to cover your work on site?

Yes No

2. Do you have SWMS to cover all site work?

Yes No

3. Do all site employees and sub contractors complete a site induction before commencing work on site?

Yes No

4. Do you regularly inspect each site for OHS compliance?

Yes No

5. Do you have a record of all training, qualifications and licences for all site personnel?

Yes No

6. Do you have a plant list of all plant and equipment used on site?

Yes No