Our Services
SQEES offers safety, quality, and environmental services that are designed to meet your needs. Our services are based on extensive experience in industry. The types of services are explained below. We start by listening to and understanding the unique issues that apply to your business. Then we apply our experience to provide the expertise and support and customised solutions that you need.
Environmental Licencing and Approvals
Development projects, whether they’re large or small, require environmental approvals and licencing. SQEES has extensive experience in completion of the works that are necessary to obtain an environmental licence to operate. With technical specialist contacts throughout industry, SQEES can bring together a best for project team that will take your development from concept to licenced operation. Services include:
- High level strategic advice and approvals strategy
- Environmental regulator liaison
- Environment and social impact assessment
- Technical studies (e.g., ecology, water quality, hydrogeology, hazard and risk)
- Environmentally Relevant Activity licence negotiation
Environmental Compliance
Complying with environmental legislation is complex and can be expensive. The challenges of compliance are present in everyday operation. When non-compliances occur, you really need an expert. The team at SQEES have been working to ensure industrial facilities can comply with environmental legislation for over 30 years. Services include:
- Compliance assessment, monitoring, and reporting
- Environmental reviews and independent investigations
- Internal assurance and due diligence auditing
- Emergency response plans and exercises
- Workforce engagement, training, and education
- External stakeholder engagement and regulator liaison
- Environmental Management Suitably Qualified Person (Environmental Protection Act)
- Consolidation and optimisation of licence conditions for existing operations
Safety, Quality, and Environmental Management Systems
Industrial operations have the potential to cause harm to people and the environment. The most effective way to manage the risks and maintain high quality standards is to implement an effective and operational management system. Understanding of the business risks, and environmental aspects and impacts is absolutely essential. Implementing policies, standards, procedures, and behaviours and systematically embedding those into everyday operation is just good business. Services include:
- Compliance assessment, monitoring, and reporting
- Systematic reviews and investigations
- Internal assurance and due diligence auditing
- Emergency response plans and exercises
- Workforce engagement, training, and education
- Risk based compliance assessment
- Development and implementation of policies, standards, procedures, guides, and forms
- System alignment to ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001
Safety Compliance - Major Hazard Facilities
SQEES specialises in the assessment and management of risks at Major Hazard Facilities. The documentation of the hazards and risk management controls is essential so that the workforce, external emergency services, and safety regulators can understand how the major hazard risks are managed. Services include:
- Safety and major hazard facility compliance assessment, and strategic advice
- Independent risk assessment and control reviews and support
- Independent incident investigations and support
- Development of comprehensive safety cases including the completion of safety assessments, hazard identification, semi-quantitative, and quantitative risk assessments
- Development of emergency response plans, procedures, and resources
- Development of security management plans,
- External and internal stakeholder engagement and liaison
- Emergency services and neighbour consultation
- Regulator liaison
- Development of safety management plans that address all aspects of operation including training, consultation, and assurance that are commensurate with the scope and scale of major hazard facilities.
Safety Management
No business can afford safety incidents and injuries in the workplace. Regardless of the scope and scale of the operation, all aspects of safety from the facility design and engineering to workforce behaviour must be addressed. The team at SQEES have over 30 years’ experience delivering safety at the work front. Services include:
- Safety management plan development and improvement
- Assessment, communication, and management of workplace risks
- Emergency Preparedness assessment, plan development, and exercises
- Development of safety guidance documents
- Regulator liaison, and expert representation
- Procedure development and implementation
- Internal assurance and due diligence auditing
- Development and implementation of risk specific programs for a variety of needs, including
o Risk assessment
o Work permit / high risks activities
o Management of change
o Driving safety
o Fatigue management
o Work at heights
o Ground disturbance
o Safety leadership programs
- Workforce engagement, internal training, and education programs
- Communication programs and stakeholder engagement