Looking for a custom Coronavirus Business Continuity, Pandemic Plan or Infectious Disease Plan for your Business?

For Businesses and Employers it is vital to have appropriate business continuity or Infectious Disease Plan arrangements in place, to ensure continuation of the services that you provide during any pandemic.

ISOsafe can help you prepare a custom plan that will help with customer confidence.

Key Elements of an Effective Business Continuity Plan:

• Use of “plain English”.

• Ownership and full support from senior management, business units and IT.

• Agreement on critical functions and operations to immediately be restored.

• Communication of the plan to all levels of the organisation.

• Regular testing and maintenance to ensure feasibility and relevance.

We can prepare a simple tailored Covid-19 Policy, Plans, Business Pandemic Plans, right through to complete Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) for corporates with many staff, multiple business units and locations.

Is your business prepared to deal with the spread of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?

Contact Us today – 1300 789 132

Note to Cleaning Companies: We can prepare SWMS or SOPs for Foggers/Sprayers/CAFs, and other general Work Instructions for COVID-19 Cleaning Works, including decontamination.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the Workplace

Work Health and Safety (WHS) Responsibilities of Businesses and Employers

With the Australian Government activating it’s Response Plan for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Businesses and Employers need to be aware of their responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

Businesses and Employers are required to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers and others at their workplaces. Businesses and Employers must identify hazards at the workplace and associated risks and act on them, by implementing reasonably practicable control measures to eliminate or minimise those risks.

Managing Risks

Exposure to COVID-19 may present a health and safety risk to workers and other persons at a workplace.

Identifying and controlling risks to workers, and other persons connected to the workplace, arising from exposure to COVID-19 may involve:

·       Closely monitoring official advice, such as updates from the Commonwealth Department of Health

·       Reviewing your organisation’s policies and measures for infection control, including educating workers on best practice

·       Advising workers to self-isolate for 14 days if they have travelled to certain overseas destinations or been in close contact with anyone confirmed to have the coronavirus. The Australian Government currently considers mainland China, South Korea, Iran and Italy to be at higher risk for COVID-19.

Workers also have a duty to take reasonable care for their own and others’ health and safety. This includes ensuring good hygiene practices, such as frequent hand washing, to protect against infections.

Workers’ Compensation

A virus (like COVID-19) is likely to be considered under the disease provisions of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act). For a disease to be covered it must be contributed to, to a significant degree, by the employee’s employment (section 5B).

For coverage to exist, a determining authority would need to be satisfied that the employment significantly contributed to the employee contracting the virus. For viruses, it can be difficult to accurately determine the exact time and place of contraction. As a result, it may be difficult to determine that employment significantly contributed to the virus.

However, where an employee’s employment puts them at greater risk of contracting the virus the significant contribution test may be easier to meet. For example, if the employment involves:

·       travel to an area with a known viral outbreak

·       activities that include engagement or interaction with people who have contracted the virus

·       activities that contravene Department of Health recommendations.

Each claim would need to be considered on its individual merits, having regard to the individual circumstances and evidence in relation to the claim.

Coverage while travelling overseas for work

The significant contribution test applies to both employees working overseas and those working within Australia. Each case will be assessed on its own facts.

Note: For locally engaged overseas employees (employees engaged overseas to perform duties overseas) different legislative considerations will apply.

ISOsafe’s commitment to clients during Coronavirus

With COVID-19 continuing to impact people and countries around the world, workplaces everywhere are moving to remote work.

At ISOsafe we’re encouraging our team to work from home as much as possible as are many others. And we expect this trend to continue across Australia.

Our top priority is the health and safety of employees, clients, partners, and communities.

ISOsafe have developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) Action Plan which has been communicated to all stakeholders.

Do you need advice on how to manage COVID-19 in your workplace? Contact Us today on 1300 789 132

 We can prepare custom documents for your business, including:

·       Coronavirus Disease Policy

·       Infectious Disease Plan

·       Business Continuity Plan

·       Pandemic Plan

·       SWMS and Risk Assessment for Decontamination Tasks

·       Site Specific Decontamination Methodology

·       Clearance Criteria Development

·       Clearance Certification

·       COVID-19 Plan

·       COVID-19 Policy

Hiperos - Free Initial Advice – Get Help Here

Hiperos is an online risk, performance management and compliance validation system for contractors of Global 2000 companies such as Aetna, Alcoa, AON, AstraZeneca, AXA, Bank of Montreal, CA Technologies, Charles Schwab, Kraft Foods, Mondelez, Microsoft, News Corporation, PNC Bank, Rockwell Automation, Sun Life Financial, State Street, TD Bank, and United Technologies.

Call ISOsafe Now 1300 789 132

Successfully completing the Hiperos compliance process can take up many valuable hours - meaning less time on the tools and more time wasted on compliance. 

We provide Hiperos assessment support to businesses and contractors in every state and territory Australia wide. 

There are dozens of questions in the Hiperos Compliance Questionnaire
Submitting requested forms, and the requirement of having to create and submit industry-specific safety programs. We answer ALL the questions, build the manuals, and prepare the training documents to improve safety in your business.

We offer a full maintenance program
Our annual programs ensure you never have to worry about falling out of compliance due to new requirements. 
Ask about our multi-year discounts!

We are the best in the business and guarantee your satisfaction
Our expert compliance staff with over 20 years’ experience has been getting and keeping companies like yours Hiperos compliant.

So, why work so hard at something we are the best at? Let us guide your business through the compliance process - step by step - so you can get back to what you do best!

Get Hiperos Compliant today
Call 1300 789 132 to get started

Disclaimer: Information provided here will only be used by ISOsafe Pty Ltd (ISOsafe) for advice and/or a quote. By providing personal information, you give explicit consent for all information to be used in this way unless you inform ISOsafe otherwise. Any information provided on this website is only for general advice purposes. When calling ISOsafe, you may be offered a meeting to discuss ISOsafe’s paid services. There is no obligation to accept this meeting or in any way engage ISOsafe. ISOsafe has no affiliation with Hiperos, LLC (Hiperos), Opus Hiperos.

What HR Policies are needed by all Small Businesses?

Australia’s Workplace Relations system is complex and knowing your rights and responsibilities as an employer can be challenging.

Getting the right advice and maintaining up-to-date policies can help demonstrate compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

Below are some must-have policies:

Discrimination, Sexual Harassment & Bullying Policy;
Drug and Alcohol Policy;
Work Health & Safety (WHS) Policy;
Information & Technology Policy;
Uniform/Dress Code Policy;
Code of Conduct;
Leave Policy;
Grievance Policy; and
Performance Management Policy.

Ignorance or misinterpretation are not valid excuses in the eyes of Regulators such as Fair Work. ISOsafe can ensure your business is compliant, your processes are sound, and your supervisors/managers have the knowledge, support and confidence required to manage your employees. Call Us on 1300 789 132.

ISO 39001:2012 - Road Traffic Safety (RTS) management - Accreditation Process

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ISO 39001:2012?

ISO 39001:2012 specifies requirements for a road traffic safety (RTS) management system to enable an organization that interacts with the road traffic system to reduce death and serious injuries related to road traffic crashes which it can influence.

I have been asked to get certification to this standard, where do I start?

Contact ISOsafe – we can assist every step of the way ensuring your organisation is certified to ISO 39001:2012 quickly and easily.

Why have I been asked to become road traffic safety management accredited?

Preventing death  and  serious  injury  in  road  traffic  crashes is a global priority.

Road traffic injury is a leading cause of work-related death and serious injury.

What are the benefits of Road traffic safety (RTS) management (ISO 39001:2012)?

Organisations that have been approved to this standard:

Contribute to national and global efforts to prevent death and serious injury in road crashes.

Demonstrate organizational commitment to an issue of significant public concern.

Address one of the organization’s primary occupational safety risks.

Cut organizational road crash and incident costs, and working days lost to injury.

Where can I find more useful information relating to the ISO 39001:2012 accreditation process?

Contact ISOsafe – we can assist every step of the way ensuring your organisation is certified to ISO 39001:2012 quickly and easily.