Welcome to the SHE Self Assurance Toolkit

Risk management is a fundamental part of good business management practice and is an essential element of good corporate governance. It is about ensuring business objectives are more likely to be met, increasing stakeholder confidence, protecting reputation and avoiding shocks and ‘fire fighting’. Every person in an organisation has responsibility for managing risks which are determined by their specific role. Frequently these are poorly identified and not explicit. This can lead to poor internal control, gaps in responsibility and in the worst cases lead to major losses for business. There are many examples that, where the lack of control relates to Safety, Health and Environmental risk management, poor corporate governance and internal control have lead to accidents causing serious injuries and deaths of employees and members of the public. Consequential corporate and personal prosecutions have resulted in severe consequences in addition to the immediate business impact. 

Whatever your position in an organisation, this toolkit is for you. It will help you determine what you need to do to ensure you play your part in your organisation’s SHE arrangements. Consequently, it will help to secure the intended safety, health and environmental standards, help you to avoid personal liability and help the entire enterprise improve the control and mitigation of its SHE risks. While this first edition draws heavily on UK based experience the toolkit has universal application.

We wholeheartedly commend it to you as a good business and personal investment.