OHS Solutions

Brassbear Solutions helps clients to identify their OHS exposures, develop and implement proactive strategies.  In part, these strategies are targeted at improving legislative compliance and achieving financial and organisational  efficiencies through the management of incidents and claim drivers.

Workers’ compensation is often an organisation’s largest insurance spend, and perceived as an overhead that cannot be managed. In fact, workers’ compensation experience is an output from an organisations OHS culture, performance and investment.  Through the development of robust OHS and injury management systems, clients of Brassbear Solutions are best positioned to strategically and operationally manage the financial and wider organisational impacts.

Brassbear Solutions helps clients to prepare for the imminent changes in OHS legislation.  Harmonisation of the OHS legislative framework will bring about changes across all Australian jurisdictions.  Some of the key changes that will come into effect in January 2012 include a primary duty of care being placed on a person conducting a business undertaking, a requirement of persons conducting a business undertaking to consult with all stakeholders, a significant increase in OSH penalties (e.g. $1.5m penalty for a ‘Body Corporate’ and $300,000 for an Officer) and a positive obligation on Directors to demonstrate due dilligence.

Importantly, the provision for Officers to demonstrate due dilligence requires those persons to actively demonstrate their organisation is managing and meeting its OHS obligations.  Failure to demonstrate this may result in regulators prosecuting the Officer and the organisation irrespective of whether there is an obvious breach in legislation.

Brassbear Solutions helps clients to prepare for harmonisation, demonstrate due dilligence and manage workers’ compensation drivers by:

  • provision of OHS harmonisation training workshops to ensure client management representatives and Boards are informed, and develop an understanding of the proposed changes
  • undertaking legal gap analysis
  • undertaking OHS reviews to benchmark client systems against the requirements
  • establishing strategic OHS plans that are aligned with organisational business plans
  • advisory services