Effective Compliance Management System

An effective compliance management system is usually described by its features. A simpler test tells you more.

Pick an obligation at random. Pick a date eighteen months ago. Can you produce, without asking anyone to search their inbox, who was covered, what they were required to do, what they actually did, and what happened with the people who did not?

Most systems fail that test on the last part. Completion is recorded. What happened with non-completion is not, and that is the part that shows whether the organisation followed through.

The other mark of an effective system is that it covers everybody who works for you, including contractors and labour hire, because duties are generally owed to workers rather than only to employees.

Safe Work Australia covers duties owed to workers. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s workplace compliance system and records management software.