The Online Self-Assessment tool will be free for any business to use and available mid-2018. The first version of this tool is being designed to cater for small to medium sized businesses, with further development planned to tailor the tool for larger and/or higher risk sector businesses.
It will help businesses identify gaps in health and safety performance, and provide guidance and advice on how to improve.
The online tool will help businesses to engage with their employees, contractors, suppliers and others. They will be asked questions about risk management, leadership, and worker engagement. Workers anonymous responses are used to create a ‘snapshot’ of health and safety performance perceptions and areas for improvement, which, along with best practice guidance, is then presented in a report for the business to support them to improve their health and safety performance.
Commercial privacy has been taken into consideration when developing this tool. Therefore, the business information entered into the tool is private and secure and only available to the Government in an anonymised and aggregated format. This is to monitor trends, issues and industry performance to inform wider harm prevention initiatives.
Any information provided will be anonymised and only kept by us. Keeping self-assessment information private and confidential will help ensure businesses engage openly and honestly with the tool. This open participation will also ensure the tool gathers accurate aggregated data to support its users in improving their health and safety performance. As each user adopts the tool, the pool of secure and private data will become richer, enabling the tool to be more adaptable to business size and types.
Businesses will be able to reuse the online tool to measure their performance over time and support their continuous improvement activities.
The online tool can also be used to target different divisions or locations of a larger business. As more businesses use the online tool, they will be able to benchmark their business’s performance against similar sized businesses and industry types.
Further Guidance and Resources
Keep an eye out on the website in the New Year as more Resources and Guidance collateral becomes available. These will complement the existing sector versions and include sectors such as emergency services, healthcare services, forestry, manufacturing, transport and energy.
We’re continuing to raise awareness and get the word out on SafePlus – both externally and with our own frontline staff - through numerous engagements, conferences and meetings. This will continue in the New Year and beyond.
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