Sarah Glover
Emendas Blog
Posts by Sarah Glover for Emendas Blog
Chipping Away at Compliance: Safe/Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions
To put it in simpler terms, you can use an SOP to let employees new and old know “how we do things ‘round here”. If you do it well, you can create a hugely valuable resource that captures a huge amount of information. They are useful for telling employees how to work, for human resource reference in job design and descriptions, and for backfilling health and safety management systems.
Chipping Away at Compliance: Self-Assessment, Audits, and Accreditation/Prequal
Regular check-ins around all aspects of H&S and HR compliance can keep your people safe, keep your operations smooth, and ensure you are ready when accreditation or prequal assessments roll around. Be ready, STAY ready, stay safe.
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Chipping Away at Compliance: Policies
Business owners often consider policies to be overwhelming—and if you’re drowning in policy paperwork, you might be doing it in a way that’s not the most productive or efficient.
Chipping Away at Compliance: Communication and Engagement
Communication is a crucial foundation for success in health and safety, human resources, quality assurance, and much more. Good communication becomes positive engagement, as informed workers are more likely to be happier and feel more connected in their workplace.
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Chipping Away at Compliance: Corrective Action and Change Management
Course correction is a good and necessary thing. However, for change to be effective rather than disruptive, good change management is necessary. Throwing new policies and processes and equipment against the wall and hoping they stick is not the way to go (especially the throwing equipment part; don’t do that).
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Chipping Away at Compliance: Event Reporting and Management
Sh*t happens! While most of what we do is aimed at preventing incidents and harm of any kind, things can and likely will still go down. And when it hits the fan, these events should be reported and managed appropriately.
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Chipping Away at Compliance: Competency, Training, and Induction
Do your people know what they’re doing? Can you prove it?
It’s important that you can answer both of these questions in the affirmative—and that’s the basis of a competency management system. Internal and external training, inductions, competency records, coaching mentoring, and more all contribute to the bigger competency picture: your organisation as a well-oiled and resilient machine.
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Chipping away at Compliance: Review and Control Risk
The next monthly compliance task is an important one—something that should be built into your systems. In this section, we’re focusing on reviewing risk, choosing controls, and implementing them.
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Chipping away at Compliance: Get Your Roles and Responsibilities Right
Safety cannot be the job of a single person. While directors and managers should be involved, they should not be bogged down with the full daily responsibility of safety management—it’s not an effective way to do things. If you’re a director, your job is to know your approach, know that it works, and make sure that it occurs. It is not to make every decision and oversee every detail in person.
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Chipping away at Compliance: Start With The Quick Wins
This year we’re intending to break the very large and unwieldy topic of compliance down into more digestible pieces—so bookmark our blog and keep coming back! The task of ensuring real compliance across the board is a big one and can be overwhelming. If you can commit to making and implementing one change per month, you’ll be on the right track without the overwhelm.
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