
Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Audits and Assessments
Businesses can uncover the strengths and gaps in their health and safety practices through comprehensive WHS Audits and Assessments. WHS experts conduct extensive evaluations of workplaces, identifying risks, improving processes, and ensuring compliance with Australian regulatory standards.
Using a holistic approach, the assessments analyse safety systems, health impacts, and job tasks to deliver actionable insights that drive safer work environment. Tailored to each organisation’s needs, they help prioritise improvements, reduce risks, and cultivate a culture of safety so you can build safer and compliant workplaces with confidence.


WHS Audits & Gap Analysis
A workplace health and safety management system is a set of policies, procedures, and plans put in place to minimise the risk of employee injury and illness from workplace operations. Your people, the nature of the work they carry out, and WHS legislation change rapidly, so it's important to regularly check for any gaps in your management system.
Our safety consultants conduct audits and gap analysis to ensure your business is complying with current WHS/OHS legislation and providing a safe work environment. Our WHS audits can be tailored to suit your workplace – whether you’re looking for a simple fine tune of your safety compliance via an online appointment, or a fully comprehensive on-site review to check for any gaps in the management of your workplace health and safety.
Through on-site reviews, our workplace safety consultants can assess the specific WHS needs of a business and provide a report on the support required.
Our Safety Audits and Gap Analysis benefit Australian workplaces by:
- Ensuring gaps in WHS compliance are not overlooked, reducing risks to employees and the likelihood of prosecution and fines.
- Making sure your safety management system is evolving and continually improving using feedback.
- Integrating reports with other management systems.
- Providing more informed decision-making, strengthening corporate culture and demonstrating due diligence.
- Providing peace of mind that your workplace complies with WHS legislation and regulations.

Health Assessments
Our health checks identify individual and workplace-related health issues or barriers, to help you provide the right employee wellbeing solutions for your team. Health checks also enable us to measure the impacts of wellbeing programs.
Carried out by qualified medical and allied health professionals, our tailored screening options include General health screening; Blood pressure; BMI; Cardiovascular fitness; Cholesterol; Blood glucose; Waist circumference and exercise and sleep habits.
Health checks can also be customised to include:
- Other health metrics: Audiometry screening; Spirometry and vision screening.
- Lifestyle screening: Stress; Alcohol consumption; Physical activity; Smoking and nutrition.
- Musculoskeletal screening: Flexibility; Strength; Physiotherapy-based musculoskeletal screening.
- Psychological screening: Stress; Anxiety and depression.

Job Task Analysis
A Job Task Analysis provides critical information for recruitment, performance management, rehabilitation, and vocational redirection. We examine the genuine occupational demands of a role, including the physical, psychological, cognitive and functional demands required of any occupation and cover specific training opportunities and pre-employment screening.
A Job Task Analysis reveals the minimal abilities required of an individual to safely, consistently and efficiently perform either specific job tasks, or a complete occupation.
Job Task Analyses benefit organisations by:
- Providing a solid foundation for human resources, work health and safety and return to work functions.
- Building employee confidence through transparent and clear role expectations and performance measures.
- Improving recruitment practice through clinically benchmarked Pre-Employment Functional Assessments (PEFAs).
- Benchmarking relevant skills and competencies.
- Supporting the management of workplace injuries, assisting planning, and communication with all stakeholders.
- Enabling a collaborative, empowering approach to the return to work process by providing consistent and objective performance requirements.
- Identifying risk exposure allowing for task, personnel, or equipment modification.
- Providing a basis for training, induction and development of new team members and for the development of a suitable duties dictionary to communicate and provide a safe return to work.

Risk Assessments
A Work Health and Safety (WHS)/Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Risk Assessment is a structured approach designed to identify, analyse, and control potential risks in your workplace. This ensures that every hazard—physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial—is meticulously assessed, leading to informed decisions that protect your workforce and enhance productivity.
Service Process:
- Identify Hazards. Discover all potential sources of harm in your workplace.
- Analyse Risks. Evaluate the likelihood and severity of identified hazards.
- Prioritise Actions. Systematically address the most critical risks first.
- Implement Control Measures. Establish practical solutions that comply with legal standards.
- Monitor and Review. Create an ongoing process to adapt and improve safety measures as your business evolves.
In addition to meeting legal obligations, your organisation will promote a culture of safety and lower incident-related expenses by carrying out a proactive WHS Risk Assessment.
Frequently Asked Questions
An audit may be carried out as a one-off appointment to update compliance or as part of a regular WHS program. The audit might focus on a particular safety concern, such as traffic management or manual handling, it may focus on a particular part of an organisation, for example, office workers or drivers, or it may look into the entire WHS policies and procedures of a small business – or of a large organisation.
Safety audits can be carried out via a desktop screening appointment with a WHS consultant or via an on-site review. A WHS consultant brings their knowledge of the latest WHS legislation and industry-specific requirements to the audit to check all aspects of the workplace and the way that work is carried out against a safety framework. We conduct safety audits in line with relevant state legislation and standards.
Some workplaces may have a paper-based Safety Management System, while others may use WHS Compliance Management Software to run regular compliance checks. Whatever system your workplace uses, our WHS consultants can work with you during a safety audit and deliver solutions to improve on, or validate, your WHS compliance.
In summary, a good safety audit for Australian businesses will:
- Identify the risks and the levels of those risks within the workplace.
- Uncover strengths and weaknesses in your safety procedures.
- Check that your WHS system complies with legislation.
- Check your WHS policies and procedures meet best practices and legal obligations.
- Provide guidance to improve your safety procedures.
- Make sure you have adequate resources to manage your WHS obligations.
Again, the checklist for the audit will vary between organisations. In general, a WHS Safety Audit in Australia typically covers:
- Adherence to the primary duty of care.
- Due Diligence of officers.
- WHS planning and responsibilities.
- Implementation of all WHS procedures and activities.
- Hazard identification, assessment and control.
- Safety training and competence of internal WHS officers/managers.
- Continual checks and balances in place for WHS policies and procedures / due diligence.
- An audit of the WHS system and its overall performance, including a review of any accidents or illnesses that have occurred and how to prevent them from happening again.
We’re experienced in identifying key WHS concerns, gaps and compliance requirements and providing best practice strategies to deliver beneficial outcomes. We’re able to advise on, and deliver, tailored solutions to meet the specific WHS needs of a range of sectors from construction, hospitality and the motor trade industry to aged care, agriculture, education and small to medium businesses.
Contact our WHS consultants in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth for sector-specific information.