Sarah Glover
Emendas Blog
Posts by Sarah Glover for Emendas Blog
AI can write your policy. Good.
If AI can produce a useful first draft of a policy in minutes, that’s a win. Take it. Using AI can take some of the grunt work out of the process. However, that’s not the end of it. The high-value part of creating better business is not in writing policies; it’s in translating them into reality.
A Thoughtful Approach to H&S Amendments
Above all, we would advise businesses not to throw the baby out with the bathwater—that is, don’t discard useful safety practice and policy in the name of following the letter of the law (and that alone).
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Is Your Workforce Stable or Stuck?
Workforce planning is often viewed as a numbers exercise. Numbers coming and numbers going out are a rough indication of what a workforce needs, but good planning must also look at what’s going on in between entry and exit.
Chipping Away at Compliance: Workforce Planning
To optimise the performance of your operations, you need the right people with the right skills in the right roles.
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Most Business Issues Don't Arrive Unannounced
Risk is not just something to monitor or minimise. It provides insight into how work, systems, capability, communication, and decision-making interact in practice.
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Chipping Away at Compliance: Emergency Management
A plan makes you prepared to respond better when disaster strikes! If everyone is aware of the plan and it is up to date, you stand the best chance of your people and property coming through it as unharmed as possible.
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Our Thoughts on 2026 H&S and Employment Reform
From an Emendas perspective, the intent is understandable, particularly for SMEs that are often overwhelmed by complex legal expectations. However, there is a genuine risk that these reforms could create false confidence rather than real certainty.
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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.