What We Can Help With: Roles and Responsibilities

To create safe, compliant, and productive business operations, it’s crucial to spread responsibility across people and roles strategically. While liability ultimately falls back on company directors to ensure that systems and frameworks are in place, those systems should ensure that safety cannot be the job of a single person.

Making compliance a team effort has benefits for all involved. With the right spread of roles and responsibilities, you can:

• Spot compliance gaps earlier, thanks to a diversity of eyes and attention on the matter. Having people “on the ground” looking for issues is invaluable.
• Allow people to shine and create opportunities for capability uplift. Your next health and safety manager might be waiting in the wings; an administrator you hired straight out of school who has a tonne of organisational IP and is keen to learn.
• Help new employees to learn the ropes and integrate into their teams faster, which can only have a positive effect on your business outcomes.
• Minimise burnout and stress through careful job design which spreads responsibilities across multiple roles.

Conversely, there are risks that come with concentrating responsibility with one person or a small group of people. When compliance is not a shared responsibility, things tend to fall through the cracks. One person can not have full knowledge of what goes on in every part and function of a business, which can result in important tasks being missed. The potential consequences of compliance obligations being missed, particularly safety-related requirements, are very real.

To effectively spread responsibility for compliance in a way that benefits your business requires careful, intentional, and clear design. Emendas can help you to form a firm foundation for compliance by mapping out roles and responsibilities in a way that’s tailored and relevant. Get in touch.