COMPLIANCE & REGULATORY SUPPORT Workplace Health and Safety
Compliance and Regulation
The COVID pandemic has underscored the importance of effective workplace health and safety (WHS) strategies. To assist members in complying with their WHS obligations, ASIAL continues to partner with Integrum Management Systems to provide a robust online solution designed specifically for the security sector, allowing frontline staff to capture data and trigger workflows with a clear audit trail.
Compliance is a key priority in supporting and maintaining security operations. It is much more than just the basic rules about taxes, accounting and safety at work laws. Security operations are required to comply with a large and increasingly complex set of laws that have a significant impact on security operations. Security licensing, WH&S, insurance, modern slavery, labour hire, portable long service, and wage theft legislation are further complicated by jurisdictional variations.
Subscribed members have online access to safety management documentation eliminating paper-based records. The Employee Training and Licence registers ensures that all staff possess the required training, including induction training, to perform their respective work duties and administrators can record current security licences and registrations with expiry date reminders. This feature is of utmost importance to the security industry to ensure compliance on work sites and important when responding to requests for tender. Incident reporting to record all accidents, incidents and near miss incidents is another important feature. Automatic risk calculation allows quick decisions to be made on site. Hazard and Risk Assessments forms allow for monitoring of incidents and future preventions. The ASIAL SWMS program is an affordable WHS system tailored to the Security Industry that has been designed to meet the requirements of Australian Standard 4801 and Safety Standard ISO45001.
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ASIAL members continue to take advantage of the many services on offer, including support with business forms, standard operating procedures, business plans and direct representation with regulators. The risks of non-compliance are costly, not just with regards to a monetary penalty, but criminal responsibility and direct impact on business owners, managers and staff. Organisations appropriately seek professional advice, external to ASIAL, in business structures, choice of entities, and various models of compliance to manage and minimise risk, taxation and ownership. The past year has highlighted that the specifics of security licensing are not always well understood, or a priority of some accounting and legal practitioners providing advice to security providers in realigning business structures or new entrants to the security industry. Security licensing generally relates to the ABN and the entity and not multiple or Group entities. Several jurisdictions specifically reject Trust applications with security regulators placing priority on the identification of business ownership, legal responsibility, and management responsibility. ASIAL continues to work with members to ensure their compliance with security business licensing and ensure their business structures comply with security licensing requirements.
