I am an indépendant health & safety advisor and as such I have to work with whatever system the company that I am contracted to has embraced. I have encountered many systems which are in use in the country but Bware is undoubtedly my 'go to' system. If I am engaged with a company who do not have a robust IT health and safety system, I then will put them in contact with the Bware team. They have just gone through an extensive upgrade and their system is user friendly for companies within construction industry and most other aspects of the business community.

At the current time their website is being upgraded, so I would recommend getting in touch with them directly as the current website does not reflect the quality of their product now. Another alternative is to contact myself personally. Good luck with your search.

Peter
I am all in favour of this change in direction from Worksafe. I am of the view that this new approach is definately worthy of a trial and I would like to think that it covers off the likes of Prequal. Prequal in my view should slot under Part 1 HSW Section 28 No contracting out. We need to drive out the fear that is imposed on some contractors through the necessity to complete a Prequal commitment.

Again my view is that they add little to the workplace compliance and the News from the Courts media article in every Safeguard magazine reconfirms my opinions. That article is full of companies who have made the headlines but have a prequal of some description in place. Third party contracting out.

@Fiona J Jones article on prequal is the November/December magazine was fantastic evidence of good research however, her brief was too narrow to include the contracting out.