A health and safety, environmental or quality (SHEQ) management system provides the foundation for developing and implementing sound SHEQ policy and managing risks and opportunities.
It will at once address your organisational structure, planning activities, management responsibilities, procedures, processes and resources.
What We Do
Our comprehensive range of services will assist you through every stage of the management system lifecycle.
Mentoring and development services
Our EMS mentoring process consists of periodic visits to the site from one of our experienced management system consultants. The consultant will meet with the Management Systems Coordinator and work through one or more stages of development and implementation. Tasks completed during the mentoring process include training delivery, documentation review, management reviews, gap analysis and software implementation.
The Coordinator reports to the mentor using our Mentoring Program Sheet. This documented record of activities prior to the visit, during the visit and prior to the next visit is an extremely effective way of communicating progress to the organisation’s management.
Gap analysis and scoping
Find out more about our gap analysis and scoping services here.
Custom tools development
We can tailor management system tools to align with your organisation’s management goals such as conformance with or certification to ISO 14001, ISO 9001, ISO 50001 or ISO 45001 including:
- Software systems
- Risk assessment
- Compliance assessment checklists
- Environmental improvement plans
- Training development and delivery
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Monitoring and measurement tracking and reporting tools
- Internal audits
- Management reviews and steering committees
Implementation services
The design and development of your management system must be followed by implementation. This requires constant effort and often results in a two to three year process (if nothing is in place at the start) which can involve:
- Induction training
- Communication programs
- Risk assessment sessions
- Training programs
- Management reviews and steering committees
- Internal audits
- Providing and supporting software applications
Maintenance and support services
We will ensure you keep up with the changing world of SHEQ management by:
- Updating risk registers
- Updating skills
- Facilitating management reviews
- Providing software updates and ongoing support
- Management systems and software training
Integrated Management Systems
An Integrated Management System has links to several organisational areas including environment, health and safety, quality, human resources, administration, purchasing, operations and production. We can assist you to realise the benefits of an Integrated Management System through improved efficiency, uniformity and streamlined communication, using specialist software if required. The diagram below shows how EMS links to other management systems.
Software Solutions
Today’s regulatory landscape is in a state of constant change, and your business is facing new challenges as a result. SHEQ management has become more than compliance and risk mitigation, and every organisation has its own unique risks and opportunities to address. We are here to help you take the next step in that journey. Our software solutions cover all of the requirements to implement sustainable business solutions in order to manage risk and compliance.
Contact us for more information and advice regarding a suitable software solution for your management system requirements.
Certification
Certification involves independently verifying that your management system meets the criteria specified in the relevant national or international standard. We assist organisations to achieve certification to international standards by helping them through the process of certification by a third party independent certification body.
Who We Work With
Graham A Brown & Associates has examined, developed and reviewed approximately 60 environmental, health and safety, quality, community relations and integrated management systems and provided software solutions in many industries internationally. View a list of our Management Systems clients for many of whom we have also conducted Gap Analyses.