OHS (Occupational Health & Safety) Gap Analysis

An OHS gap analysis is a management tool used to identify strengths and weaknesses in an organisation’s OHS policies and procedures. Our detailed evaluation will provide a snapshot in time of your OHS management system, revealing anything you might have overlooked. From here, we can recommend corrective actions to ensure you comply with legislation.

How will an OHS gap analysis help your organisation?

An OHS gap analysis provides tangible benefits including:

• Streamlining processes for organisational efficiency
• Reducing the likelihood of fines, prosecution or WorkCover improvement notices
• Preparing for recertification to standards such as AS4801
• Reducing the likelihood of incident reporting
• Reducing rising insurance premiums by mitigating accident or loss
• Help train your staff in workplace health and safety

Types of OHS gap analyses

We can conduct a general OHS gap analysis or base your analysis on specific criteria such as:

• Emergency and evacuation plans
• Injury management
• Risk management
• Contractor management
• Certification to guidelines standards such as AS4801 as well as corporate standards, policies and procedures

How we work

A comprehensive analysis is most likely a combination of several methods including:

• Interviewing staff and management
• Reviewing documents such as risk assessment forms, safety hazard forms and testing/tagging checklists as well as corporate standards, policies and procedures
• Questionnaires
• Checklists or protocols

Depending on the scope required and the size of your organisation, an analysis can take anywhere from a day to several weeks. We can either do this on-site or take documents away with us for analysis.

Once we have gathered the necessary information, we’ll document our findings in a report that will include recommendations for corrective action.

Who we work with

Our audit team has worked in a range of industries including retail, manufacturing and mining. We can apply our tested principles of OHS gap analysis to any workplace.