Unfortunately I used to find, as I dug deeper behind the questions, that the asker usually wanted a magic wand that would fix all the OHSMS with little learning and without too much effort.

In many cases I found that clients had spent heaps of money buying “OHS systems” off the shelf in either paper or CD format and these simply sat on another shelf – as if to say “we have our system now let’s get on with the rest of the business”. Little did many of them realise that their system was useless if not first “customised” to the business and then implemented.

As we in the industry know, there is no quick fix. Every part of the OHSMS needs to be developed to suit the specifics of the organisation. And the effort to integrate OHS with the other business systems is additional to that.

Whilst I haven’t checked out your template collection, I do appreciate that you are trying hard to provide good tools at low cost.

My word of advice to all your purchasers is “make sure you understand each component (what is it supposed to achieve?), then make it fit (how will it achieve it in your business?), and then make it work (implementation and ownership by all affected) – otherwise you’ve wasted your time and money buying it”.