
Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Consultancy & Secondments
We work with businesses nationally, both small and large, to support them in keeping their employees safe. Our work health and safety consultants have expertise across all corresponding legislation state by state. They’re able to support you with any WHS-related issues or provide end-to-end solutions to manage your complete WHS operations.
We aim to minimise both physical and psychosocial risk to help you create a workplace that prioritises safety whilst providing occupational health services and OHS consulting solutions that deliver cost benefits.


Safety Management System Development
Our WHS consultants in Australia can provide end-to-end support to fully manage your workplace health and safety policies, procedures and plans, or simply help you to get a part of your safety program up and running.
We can integrate our services into your existing business operations to enhance your existing systems – whether you use a paper-based safety program, or a digital solution. For those wanting to move to a fully automated safety management system, our WHS consultants can also work with businesses, small and large, to onboard them with WHS Compliance Management Software – AltiusWHS.
Our focus is on ensuring legislative compliance and providing a safer working environment for employees, with expertise that benefits your business by:
- Ensuring compliance with WHS legislation and regulations.
- Managing the contents of safety documentation within the system.
- Making sure your management system is effective in protecting people from harm and minimising claims.
- Checking the system includes mechanisms to continually improve using feedback.
- Helping businesses to integrate their WHS system with other management systems.
- Developing a system that strengthens corporate culture and demonstrates due diligence.

WHS/OHS Resourcing and Secondments
Our WHS/OHS trained allied health team can help you with incident investigation and root cause analysis to provide timely advice and support from the moment a workplace injury occurs.
Altius provides tailored Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) solutions for organisations of all sizes, ensuring compliance with state-specific legislation through expert WHS consultants. Our resourcing and secondments services involve providing experienced WHS professionals to fill temporary or long-term roles within your organisation, ensuring continuity and expertise in your safety operations.
Key Services Include:
- Compliance Focus. Maintain regulatory compliance while promoting a culture of safety.
- Documentation Management. Streamline safety documentation processes.
- Management System Enhancement. Improve existing systems to minimise risks.
- Continuous Improvement. Implement feedback mechanisms for ongoing safety enhancements.
- Integrate with Other Systems. Connect WHS systems with other management frameworks.
- Strengthen Corporate Culture. Develop systems that promote a robust safety culture and demonstrate due diligence.
- Manage Incidents Effectively. Receive expert recommendations for incident investigations.
Benefits of Seconding a WHS Consultant
- Expertise Access: Immediate specialised knowledge in risk management and compliance.
- Flexible Support: Scalable assistance for short-term projects or peak seasons.
- Fresh Perspectives: Identify and address gaps in current practices with innovative solutions.
- Cost Efficiency: Avoid full-time hiring costs for part-time needs.
- Immediate Availability: Consultants ready to ensure compliance during critical periods.
- Regulatory Compliance: Stay aligned with changing regulations to reduce legal risks.
- Skills Development: Enhance internal capabilities by collaborating with consultants.
Frequently Asked Questions
A WHS Management System includes:
- a well-thought-out set of policies and procedures to meet current legislation and the health and safety needs unique to your workplace.
- details of how these workplace safety solutions will be implemented.
- details of how safety documentation will be managed.
- systems for feedback on safety for continuous improvement.
- integration with other management systems to ensure WHS compliance across Australia.
A safety audit delivers peace of mind by ensuring Australian organisations are complying with the latest legislation, and doing their best for their employee’s health and safety while providing a line of defence in the case of workplace injury or illness. Our safety audit services, available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and across Australia, ensure you have identified all workplace safety risks and hazards and have the systems in place to safeguard against these.
The audit checks that you have an appropriate safety management system in place to prevent workplace injury and illness, and that WHS policies and procedures are being followed.
The safety audit screens for due diligence and identifies any weaknesses in your WHS system that may lead to injury, illness or non-compliance fines.
In summary, a safety audit:
- Is a WHS screening for due diligence. By carrying out a safety audit, employers develop an understanding of current needs, and compliance in relation to these needs.
- Provides a WHS compliance report to relay any actions required to meet safety regulations.
Victorian legislation is still termed the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and hence OHS is still widely used in Victoria. International standards such as ISO45001:2018 also still refer to OHS.
In both cases, Work or Occupational Health and Safety is concerned with protecting the safety, health, and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
Establishing a WHS Management System helps a workplace meet its duties and responsibilities under its’ state WHS legislation and regulations.
ISO 45001:2018 is the international standard in the management of work, health and safety and specifies the conditions for a workplace’s system. We support businesses across Australia to align with ISO or to elevate their systems to the next level to achieve certification.
AltiusWHS is a cloud-based software solution that makes it easy for businesses, large and small to comply with their WHS obligations and manage their day-to-day WHS operations. Responsive design means AltiusWHS can be accessed easily via laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile.
AltiusWHS includes modules with all the online tools you need, covering: Incident Notification and Investigation; Monitoring Hazards and Corrective Action; Safety Planning and Compliance; Risk Management and Risk Registers; Customised Inspections and Audits; Human Resources Management; Inductions and Training; Chemical Management; Communications and Noticeboards; Reporting and Contractor Management.
AltiusWHS can be paired with Altius support for extra peace of mind and ease in operating your WHS Management System.
- AltiusWHS ensures legal compliance: It’s aligned with the latest legislative framework.
- It saves money: Capturing and recording your safety activity keeps your workplace productive, and compliant and can assist in keeping your workers’ compensation costs down.
- It saves time: With all the tools you need to capture safety activity and monitor your progress simply, you’ll spend less time tracking how your workplace safety is going.
- AltiusWHS provides peace of mind: By making it easy to capture hazards, actions and incidents on any device and log your response, and providing resources backed by up-to-date evidence and legislation.
- Altius Engaged Return to Work Coordinators can provide first-response to workplace injuries logged in AltiusWHS in ‘real-time’.
- Customised notifications for workplace incidents can connect to your support network - this may include the rehabilitation provider, Return to Work Coordinator or insurance broker.
- You can connect your employees to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) by providing employees access to support through the online platform.
- Connection to expertise during a crisis requiring Critical Incident Response support.
- Data collection and analysis can provide strategic workplace solutions to address WHS and workers' compensation trends.
- We can integrate the platform so that it connects you to your insurance broker for assisted claims and policy management.
- Everything is stored in the cloud for easy access, visible via an easy-overview dashboard.
- Responsive design means the system self-configures to suit any device.
- You’re able to build the system to best suit your business needs.
- Industry-leading security systems safeguard your documentation.
- Email notifications and reminders keep your safety plans on track.
- With added features including a virtual file box, language translation, time zone management and social media integration, AltiusWHS has you covered.
- Safety Planning and Compliance: Establish and allocate compliance tasks unique to your workplace and monitor their progress via the dashboard.
- Customised Inspections and Audits: With functions to help you create, schedule and ensure inspections are completed.
- Monitoring Hazards and Corrective Action: Input, track and monitor such actions and improvements, complete with reminders.
- Human Resources Management: Store worker emergency contacts, training details, workers’ compensation documents and performance management information in the one accessible location.
- Risk Management: Identify and keep track of risk in the workplace whilst ensuring associated corrective actions are tracked and completed via an integrated risk register.
- Chemical Management: Keep Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) up-to-date and available to workers. Upload, update and store important hazardous chemical information in the cloud for easy access.
- Training: Upload relevant training documentation and certifications, and track expiry dates to know your people are properly trained.
- Communications: Share important documents with workers, contractors, and others, and request acknowledgement of receipt. Handy for inductions, contractor management, and capturing completion information.
- Noticeboard: Keep your team up-to-date with the latest news, announcements, and important information, by configuring your own virtual safety noticeboard.
- Site Attendance: Our workplace or site attendance register is specially designed for your COVID-19 workplace response.
- Reporting: Oversee, track and report on the progress of your safety management system, in real time! Harness the power of your data, identifying trends and capturing insights to ultimately improve your safety performance.
- Analytics: Visualise your desired insights and detect future trends via customisable, interactive dashboards.
- Covering your Insurance Needs: Manage insurances, registrations, licences and certificates with useful reminders as expiry dates approach.
- Contractor Management: Using the functionality of our records management modules.
Safe Work Australia’s paper “Health and Safety Management Systems - An Analysis of System Types and Effectiveness” reported that the cases with more highly developed health and safety management systems are found to share a range of key distinguishing characteristics:
- Have senior managers take an active role in health and safety.
- Encourage supervisor involvement in health and safety.
- Have health and safety representatives actively involved in health and safety management system activity.
- Have effective health and safety committees.
- Have a planned approach to hazard identification and risk assessment.
- Give high priority and consistent attention to control of hazards at source.
- Have a comprehensive approach to workplace inspections and incident investigations.