Certain workplaces are required to implement a safety and health management system (SHMS), including risk assessments and risk management.
What is a safety and health management system
A safety and health management system (SHMS) is a systematic process for managing workplace safety and health. The system features:
- Setting goals
- Planning
- Measuring performance
- Managing commitments and direction
Workplaces must also audit or review their SHMS regularly to ensure continual improvements.
Workplaces requiring audits
You must get an approved workplace safety and health auditor to conduct regular audits if your workplace is one of the following:
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Type of workplace
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How often to audit
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Any worksite with a contract sum of $30 million or more |
At least once every 6 months
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Any shipyard employing 200 or more people
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At least once every 12 months
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Any factory engaged in manufacturing fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment, and which employs 100 or more people
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At least once every 12 months
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Any factory that processes or manufactures petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemicals or petrochemical products
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At least once every 24 months
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Any premises that stores toxic or flammable liquids at a storage capacity of 5,000 or more cubic metres
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At least once every 24 months
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Any factory manufacturing fluorine, chlorine, hydrogen fluoride, carbon monoxide and synthetic polymers
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At least once every 24 months
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Any factory manufacturing pharmaceutical products or their intermediates
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At least once every 24 months
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Any factory manufacturing semiconductor wafers
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At least once every 24 months
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Workplaces requiring SHMS internal review
Your workplace needs to conduct a periodic internal reviews on the SHMS if the following applies:
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Type of workplace
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How often to review
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Any worksite with a contract sum of less than $30 million
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At least once every 6 months
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Any shipyard employing fewer than 200 persons
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At least once every 12 months
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What is an SHMS internal review
An internal review is an audit.
You should engage a SAC accredited WSH auditing organisation or WSH auditor to conduct internal reviews.
Alternatively, you can assign a staff who has minimally passed an established audit course to conduct the internal reviews. Such audit course can be the ISO 45001 internal audit training course.
Your internal review must:
- Produce the same outcomes of a developed SHMS.
- Suit to your work activities.
- Effectively implemented at your workplace.
The internal review report must be:
- Kept as record.
- Produced upon MOM Inspector’s requests.
Full SHMS requirements
For the full SHMS requirements, refer to: