Using Risk Management Software! Where do you start?

Whether you’re looking for software to manage your health and safety systems, environmental systems or any other systems within your business there are many programs on the market that will manage basically any information or business process you can come up with. The question is, which risk management software is the right one. Once you sign up, how do you make sure you get the most out of your software and how do you encourage employees to fully engage in the new system?

Firstly, there is no system on the market that offers a complete package with relevant content included. There are OHS software, environmental software, and risk compliance software programs that offer templated content. You as the purchaser are still required By Law to assess the risks relevant to the organisation. If the content you’re using is not relevant to the organisational scope, then your system will have major compliance issues.

The first steps to compliance is by understanding the context of the organisation and then developing an integrated management system around ISO9001:2015 Quality Management Systems – Requirements, or Annex SL as the foundational standards in which to compile your system on using the main headings and objectives of the standard. The second step to compiling a relevant integrated management system is to integrate the relevant standards appropriate to the scope of the organisation. Most integrated management systems (IMS) revolve around theses standards:

• ISO9001:2015 – Quality Management Systems – Requirements
• ISO14001:2015 – Environmental Management Systems
• ISO31000:2009 – Risk Management – Principles and Guidelines
• OHSAS18001 – Occupational Health & Safety Standard (soon to be ISO45001 – Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems); and
• ISO27001:2013 – Information Security Management Systems

Although there is no direct requirement to develop a set of company policies and procedures to support the system, there needs to be a clear set of documented instructions or systems to ensure the effective communication and implementation of the risk compliance system.

The above is a very basic snapshot of what businesses should consider before even looking at purchasing any risk compliance or risk management software. At MiSAFE Solutions, we offer professional certified consulting services to develop comprehensive yet easy to understand risk management systems and then bring it all online into one easy to use OHS software, environmental management software, and risk compliance software package. The content we develop offers easy to understand environmental, Health & Safety systems, policies, procedures, risk assessments, and tools that are relevant to our clients business. We also offer content that is developed for pre-certification purposes to ensure our clients obtain certification with the relevant standard in a quicker timeframe.

MiSAFE is partnered with two (2) risk management software developers. All of our software partners have been hand picked by our company director to ensure they comply with our core company values. To see the values, click here. Our partners are Beakon Enterprise Systems, and QIN CodeSafe. We have chosen each software partner specifically to provide the best possible risk management solution to our clients based on their needs and wants, not our own.

All of our OHS software, environmental software, and risk compliance software solutions are highly configurable, so we can help you customise the system as you like.

We have also conducted a due diligence evaluation of multiple QHSE software systems to provide our clients with the respect and absolute best solutions for their needs.

To find out more, contact us today via email: contact@misafesolutions.com.au, or +61 (0) 7 5641 2101 or +61 (0) 400 977 769.