Our Services
You will have direct access to established experts who intimately understand the challenges SMEs face, to help guide and advise you on some of the most complex aspects of running your business - people, risk and exposure.
GuardSME allows you to tap into expertise to help ensure your business is compliant and you can effectively manage any people matters, your business is protected by appropriate levels of insurance, and effectively handles HR, workers compensation, WHS and return to work requirements.
We help businesses navigate a range of problems such as:
Employment and HR:
Employees who are underperforming or behaving badly
Redundancy or other employment termination processes
Setting expectations around behaviour and performance through clear employment contracts, policies, procedures and role descriptions
Compliance with Awards and other legislation requirements
How to go about making changes that impact on staff
Planning for skills gaps in your workforce
Performance appraisal processes
Recruiting for a range of staff to meet current and future needs.
Workers Compensation, business insurance & claim advice:
Business insurance program review
Review of workers compensation premium calculations, including industry classification
Assist with workers compensation claim matters
Advice on insurance claim handling
Premium forecasting to assist with cash flow
Payment method options
Asset protection, including management liability, cyber, professional indemnity and public liability
Rehabilitation and return to work:
Understanding your injury management and workers compensation obligations.
Reviewing, updating or developing your organisation’s RTW Program & outsourcing your RTW Coordinator responsibilities
Managing injured employees throughout the rehabilitation and return to work process
Developing return to work plans and dealing with workers compensation insurers, doctors and treatment providers
Assessing hazardous manual tasks in the workplace
Assessing employee fitness for work and pre-employment functional assessments
Work Health & Safety:
Site inspections & reports
WHS Gap Analyses & Audits
Risk Profile Analyses
Sub-contractor system development
Assistance with development of system documentation for internal use or submission to authorities and third part accreditation entities
Assisting in preparing responses to SafeWork NSW
WHS Training such as 5 day Health & Safety Representative Course, WHS Awareness, Incident Investigations, Safety Committee, workplace substances, risk register development.
Incident investigations