Pre-Qualification Support
We’ll guide you through the process from beginning to end.
Pre-qualification can be time-consuming and frustrating, particularly when you’re not sure exactly what is required.
We help you work through the requirements, identify and fill the gaps, prepare the documentation and deal with the pre-qualification provider on your behalf.
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Pre-qualification is about demonstrating that your business manages Health & Safety properly.
Increasingly, businesses need to demonstrate their Health & Safety capability before they can work for larger organisations or access particular contracts.
The assessment process can be time-consuming and frustrating, particularly for SMEs that don’t have someone dedicated to Health & Safety.
We help you understand what is actually required, identify any gaps and present your existing arrangements in a way that demonstrates how Health & Safety is being managed.
A system that can demonstrate how you manage risk.
Pre-qualification is not simply about having a Health & Safety manual. You need to be able to demonstrate that your arrangements are appropriate for your business and are actually being implemented.
Health & Safety systems
Policies, procedures, responsibilities and arrangements that provide the framework for managing Health & Safety.
Risk management
Evidence that significant and critical risks have been identified, assessed and appropriately controlled.
Training & competency
Evidence that people have the information, training and competency needed to carry out their work safely.
Monitoring & improvement
Evidence that incidents, inspections, audits and corrective actions are being used to improve performance.
You shouldn’t need a full-time H&S manager to get through pre-qualification.
Most SMEs already have many of the things they need. The problem is often that the information is spread across documents, emails, training records and people’s knowledge — making it difficult to demonstrate when an assessment arrives.
We help bring those arrangements together, identify genuine gaps and make the system easier to manage.
Already have a system?
We can review what you have, identify the gaps and help you get it ready for assessment.
Starting from scratch?
We can develop a practical Health & Safety system around your business, risks and compliance requirements.
Need help with an assessment?
We can help you understand the requirements and prepare the information and evidence needed.
Need to stay ready?
Ongoing support, audits and the Winsland App can help keep your Health & Safety arrangements current.
Build your Health & Safety system once — then keep it ready.
The Winsland Health & Safety system is structured around the things businesses need to manage: people, risks, controls, compliance, training, incidents, monitoring and improvement.
The Winsland App is set up to follow and complement this framework, helping keep the information, records and ongoing compliance activities in one place.
That means pre-qualification doesn’t have to become a separate paperwork exercise every time you need to demonstrate your Health & Safety arrangements.
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Built around an internationally recognised framework.
The Winsland Health & Safety framework follows the principles and structure of ISO 45001, the internationally recognised standard for Occupational Health & Safety management systems.
This provides a useful framework for businesses that need to demonstrate their Health & Safety capability for pre-qualification, client requirements or external audit.
Winsland consultants are Lead Auditor certified and can undertake ISO 45001 aligned audits where required.
Tōtika and other pre-qualification systems
Industry schemes such as Tōtika provide standardised approaches to contractor Health & Safety assessment.
The requirements vary between schemes and clients, but a sound Health & Safety management system provides the foundation for demonstrating that your business has appropriate arrangements in place.
We can help you understand what a particular assessment requires and prepare your business accordingly.
Practical support, depending on what you need.
Pre-qualification assessment
Help understanding requirements and identifying what needs to be provided or addressed.
System review
An independent review of your existing Health & Safety system and the gaps that may affect pre-qualification.
System development
Development or improvement of a practical system built around your business and its risks.
Ongoing support
Ongoing advice, audits and App-based management to help keep your business ready for future assessments.
Pre-qualification is easier when someone takes you through it.
You shouldn’t have to work out the requirements, rebuild your paperwork and deal with the assessment process on your own.
We’ll help you understand what is required, fill the gaps, prepare what is needed and guide you through the process from beginning to end.
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