Welcome to HelpSafe

Serious Help When You're Serious About Safety

HelpSafe® is an extensive online compliance resource centre to help all personnel directing, managing and working working in Australian organizations to identify and comply with their legal OHS obligations.

Compliance | Policy | Planning | Implementation | Consultation | Risk Management | Training | Incident Management | Audits
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Using HelpSafe®, you can: 

1. Identify & go to OHS legislation, Codes of Practice and prescribed Standards
2. Access, customise and use:
   
   • Gap analyses
   • Policy tools & templates
   • OHS planning tools and templates
   • Consultation tools & templates
   • Hazard identification, risk assessment, risk control and review tools & templates
   • Training programs and safety information
   • Incident and injury management tools and templates
   • Emergency management tools & templates
   • Performance measurement tools
   • Self-audit tools
3. Augment & enhance your current OHS management system

1. Initial compliance and management gap checks
   [Legal, Risk Management, Consultation, Policy & Procedure]
2. Sample Policies
   [OHS, Drug & Alcohol, Safe Driving]

1. OHS management plan development and implementation tracking tools
   [5-Year Strategic OHS Management, Annual Action plans]
2. Risk Management plan development, deployment and scope checking tools
   [Risk Management Plan template, Risk Management Plan checklist, Risk Management Calendar]
3. Specific risk management plannning tools
   [Project, Dangerous Goods Emergency Preparedness plans]
4. Training planning tools
   [OHS Training Needs Analysis, Annual OHS Training Plan, OHS Skills Register]

1. OHS consultation
2. OHS risk management
3. OHS training & awareness
4. Incident, injury and emergency situation management
5. OHS reporting and record keeping

1. Checking for consultation gaps and planning corrective actions
   [Consultation Practice Check, Consultation Gap Annalysis & Corrective Action Plan]
2. Assessing the adequacy of consultation arrangements
   [Consultation Needs Analysis]
3. Managing OHS rep elections
   [OHS Rep Election Procedure]
4. Planning, conducting and minuting OHS team meetings
   [OHS Action Request form, OHS Meeting Agenda & Minutes templates, Meeting procedure]

1. Hazard Checklists
   [Armed Hold-up; All-Terrain Vehicles; Bandsaws; Biological & Sanitation; Brushcutters; Chainsaws; Cafe & Restaurant; Confined Space Work; Dusts; Ergonomics; Emergency Prepareness; Forklifts; Hazardous Substances; Heavy Plant; Home Office; Manual Handling; Plant & Equipment; Shiftwork; Slips, Trips & Falls; Scissor Lifts; Stress; Substance Abuse; UV Radiation; Violence & Security; Work Environment; Work Tasks; Vehicle Driving; Work Operations]
2. Risk Assessment Tools
   [Biological & Sanitation; Ergonomics; Hazardous Substances; Manual Handling; Plant & Equipment; Slips, Trips, Falls & Falling Objects; Stress; Vehicle Driving; Violence; Work Environment]
3. Risk Control Planning and Management Tools
   [Biological & Sanitation; Catering Event Safety Planner; Ergonomics; Emergency Preparedness; Hazardous Substances; Manual Handling; Plant & Equipment; Slips, Trips, Falls & Falling Objects; Projects; Stress; Vehicle Driving; Violence; Work Environment]
4. Safe Work Procedure Tools
   [Safe Work Method Statement Template; Safe Work Procedure Development Tool; Emergency Procedure Development Tool; Contractor Safety Management Tool; Safe Work Procedure Review Tool]
5. Safety Register, Reporting & Records Tools
   [Risk Register; Electrical Equipment Register; Training Register; Hazardous Substance & Dangerous Goods Register; Hazard Report Form; Incident Report Form; Injury Report Form; Risk Assessment Report Form; Site Inspection Report Form; Incident Analysis Tool; Records Management Checklist] 

1. Training Programs
   [Introduction to Duty of Care, Principles of OHS Consultation; OHS Risk Management; Principles of Injury Management; Fire Safety; Hazardous Substances; Manual Handling; Personal Protective Equipment; Introduction to OHS Management Systems; OHS Performance Measurement]
   
2. Hazard Information Sheets
   [AIDS; Asbestos; Asthma; Bio-hazards; Bullying; Cement Dermatitis; Electricity (General); Electricity (Power Lines); Ergonomics (Neck & Upper Limb); Ergonomics (Lower Back); Ladders (Extension); Ladders (Fixed); Ladders (Portable); Ladders (Step); Ladders (Storage); Fire Prevention; Hand-held Knives; Hand-held Power Tools; Hazardous Substances (General); Hazardous Substances (Substitution); Hepatistis B; Hepatitis C; Latex Allergy; Manual Handling; Noise; Shiftwork; Skin Cancer; Slips, Trips & Falls; Smoking; Stress; Substance Abuse (General); Substance Abuse (Signs); Violence]
   
3. Safety Articles
   [Accident Prevention; Contractor Safety; Electrical Safety; Lower-Back Injury Prevention & Management; OHS Business Case; OHS Management Systems; Records Management; Preventing Work-Related Stress; Vehicular Traffic Safety; Preventing Workpalce Violence]
   
4. Register, Record & Reporting Tools
   [Training Register; Personnel Skills Register; Training Record Form]

1. Incident & injury analysis tools
   [Incident Register; Incident Analysis Tool]
   
2. Incident Record & Report Forms
   [Incident Report Form; Register of Injuries Form; Medical Information Access Permission Form]
   
3. Injury Management Procedure Tools
   [Injury Management Practice Check & Corrective Action Planner; First-Aid Requirements Planner; Injury Management Flow Template; Claims Management Procedure Tool; Claim Tracking Tool; Workers Compensation Information for Employees; Return to Work Plan Template; Return to Work Program Template]

1. Practice Self-Audit and Corrective Action Planning Tools
   [Management Responsibility; Consultation & Communication; Risk Management Process; Injury Management Practice; OHS Training & Skills Development; Records Management]
   
2. Compliance Checking & Corrective Action Planning Tools
   [Management Review Process; General Duty of Care; Consultation; Risk Management; Injury Management; Records Management]