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A Safety Consultant is a professional qualified in the matters of health and safety in the workplace who helps businesses in ensuring they are compliant and follow the best practices in this area.

Each one of our Safety Consultants have maintained at least Certified OHS Professional certification with the Australian Institute of Health and Safety and Exemplar Global as Lead Auditors across a range of safety topics including Hazardous Chemicals and Safety Management Systems.

Professional Safety Consultants are not restrained by the business direction placed on Safety persons in general business but are able to expand their knowledge to boarder encompass specialised knowledge and provide expert advice on what a business can do to improve the overall health and safety of their workplaces. Our Consultants have also worked in the ‘real world’ in supervisory and management positions and )more than likely) experienced what you are going through.

The WHS Regulation requires a major inspection of an amusement device:

• before the end of any period for a major inspection recommended by the manufacturer of the device, or
• if a competent person who has previously completed an annual inspection or major inspection of the device recommends a shorter period than recommended by the manufacturer, the next major inspection is due by the period recommended by that competent person, or
• if there is no recommendation from the manufacturer or a competent person, the device is due for the next major inspection no later than 10 years after it was first commissioned or registered, whichever is earlier; and then no later than 10 years after its last major inspection.

While not specified in the WHS Regulation, Australian Standard AS 3533.2-2009 Amusement rides and devices Part 2: Operation and maintenance also requires a major inspection in the following circumstances:

• after a device has suffered a major departure from normal operation or a failure of any major structural or mechanical component [AS 3533.2-2009 Clause 5.4.4(d)]
• when a device is to be recommissioned and adequate records are unavailable or the device was designed and built to unknown standards. [AS 3533.2-2009 Clause 5.4.4(e)]

AS 3533 Amusement rides and devices is listed in Appendix C of the Managing risks of plant in the workplace Code of Practice as a technical standard which provides additional guidance for conducting major inspections.

Outsourcing to professional workplace health and safety consultants, reduces your costs of maintaining specialised in-house staff qualified in WHS matters. Some of the key benefits to you as a business owner, are:

• Better safety and compliance – as a professional consulting firm we only employ consultants with proven track records. We do NOT pass our work on to other consultants so as to ensure we keep our reputation with our clients.
• Less stress – Consequently, having access to better advice, means you do not have to worry about health, safety and compliance matters as much, by comparison.
• Cost reduction – There are a number of overheads involved in maintaining in-house staff, especially in positions that are not always constantly required in your business.
• Outsourcing allows you to avoid those costs, by giving you access to professional consultants only when you need their help.

DRA Safety has been in business for almost 30 years with a strong client base.

Over time some clients have chosen to leave for a lower price only to return due to the service and quality out put we provide.

We use a range of audit tools considering the level of compliance already at an organisation. We complete the job site audit to identify and assess the health and safety matters and concerns regarding several key areas of said site (where and as applicable):

• Health and Safety Policy
• Responsibility and Accountability Statements
• Sub-Contractors and Purchasing Controls
• Health and Safety Consultation
• Risk Management
• Provision of Information
• Staff Training
• Reporting and Investigation
• Emergency Planning
• Fire Evacuation Plan
• Emergency Equipment
• Traumatic Incident Response
• Workplace Specific Issues (as relevant)
• Electrical Equipment
• Hazardous Chemicals
• Plant
• Noise
• Vehicles
• First Aid Facilities and Communicable Diseases
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Work at Height
• Ergonomic / Manual Handling

Once a suitable score is attained we generally move organisations to the National Self-Insurer OHS Audit Tool ordinarily used for organisations across Australia that self insure for workers compensation.

Examples of commonly encountered Safety Documents , include:

• The documentation of WHS processes, procedures, and training programs
• Documentation of identified hazards, incidents and injuries
• Documentation of internal and external health and safety management reviews
• Records of meetings concerning workplace health and safety matters
• Documentation of internal safety standards and expectations