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IMPROVE YOUR SAFETY DOCUMENTATION
Do Your Safety Documents Work?
Clear, accurate and accessible documentation is vital for improved safety and successful outcomes.
Workers need to be able to easily find, understand and execute procedures that accurately reflect how employees actually perform their work. Compliance ensures consistency, safety and a quality end-product.
What’s more, internal auditors, as well as regulators, rely on documentation for clear, concise evidence that a business is operating in compliance with requirements.
Ensuring you and your team follow a best practice approach to documentation can have a significant impact on compliance and safety, and we are here to help.
Download this document quality checklist and use it to assess whether you need to improve safety documentation to optimise successful outcomes.
Effective documents should:
- be written in clear, concise, simple language
- be standardised and consistent in structure, format, language and writing style
- make it easy for the reader to find relevant information (and skim irrelevant information) by including contents tables and descriptive and accurate subheadings
- break information into bite sized pieces presented in a logical, intuitive order
- make critical information stand out
- avoid information that may be quickly outdated (such as names and dates).
Policies should:
- focus on the rule and describe what should or must be done rather than what not to do
- make it clear what must be done (required) vs what should be done (recommended).
Procedures should:
- assist employees to perform activities in a step-by-step manner, with example visuals and tables where possible
- be action and outcome-oriented with consistent repeatable predictable results
- be unambiguous.
Blog
7 Signs Your Documentation May Be Harming Compliance
This article shares symptoms of poor documentation? Is your business experiencing any of these symptoms? If so, the quality of your documentation may be harming your ability to be fully compliant. Yet do not fear, as we are here to help you improve your safety documentation.
Case Study
Safety Documents Re-Write
In this project, an existing document management client identified improving and maintaining the safety of its employees, contractors and stakeholders as a key priority. One part of this was the review of all safety documentation.
Get a Feel For How We Can Help You
Free Consultation
Let us know a bit about you and your needs. Then send us 3-5 pages from a typical document and we will benchmark it against best practice to show you how it can be improved – at no cost to you, of course.
Get a Feel For How We Can Help You
Free Consultation
Let us know a bit about you and your needs. Then send us 3-5 pages from a typical document and we will benchmark it against best practice to show you how it can be improved – at no cost to you, of course.