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🎓 Compliance Guides

Free, practical guides for safety managers — ISO standards, ICAO SMS, IOSA readiness, WHS obligations, and more. Industry-specific, regulation-mapped, immediately usable.

📋 Cross-industry 2 guides
📋 Cross-industry PDF guide 18 pages

ISO 45001:2018 — A practical implementation guide for safety managers

Clause-by-clause breakdown of ISO 45001 civilization and how to build evidence of compliance. Includes audit programme setup, risk register configuration, and documented information requirements.

  • Clause 6.1 hazard identification mapped to risk register setup
  • Clause 9.2 internal audit programme — templates included
  • Clause 10.2 corrective action workflow design
  • Evidence checklist for external certification audit
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📋 Cross-industry PDF guide 14 pages

ISO 19011:2018 — Running a credible internal audit programme

Practical guidance on implementing ISO 19011 audit methodology: audit programme management, auditor selection, audit planning, evidence collection, and finding classification.

  • Auditor competence matrix template
  • Audit programme risk assessment
  • Independence and conflict of interest policy template
  • Finding classification: Major / Minor / Observation criteria
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✈️ Aviation 2 guides
✈️ Aviation PDF guide 24 pages

ICAO Annex 19 SMS implementation guide — for Tier 2 aviation operators

How to implement the four ICAO SMS components for charter operators, MROs, and flight schools. Includes documentation templates, SPI configuration, and CASA/CAAV compliance mapping.

  • Safety policy and accountability framework template
  • Hazard identification and risk assessment process for operators
  • Safety assurance: internal audit programme setup
  • SPI selection and Safety Performance Target setting
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✈️ Aviation PDF guide 20 pages

IOSA readiness guide — preparing your audit programme for registration

A structured approach to IOSA preparation: understanding the 8 audit sections, managing findings year-round, and demonstrating corrective action closure for the audit organisation.

  • IOSA audit section overview: GOV, FLT, DSP, MNT, CGO, CAB, SEC, OPS
  • Finding vs Observation: classification and response requirements
  • Evidence requirements per IOSA standard item
  • Corrective action timeline management for IOSA compliance
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🏗️ Construction 2 guides
🏗️ Construction PDF guide 16 pages

WHS Act compliance guide — principal contractor duty of care obligations

What principal contractors must do to satisfy their duty of care under harmonised WHS legislation. Covers subcontractor oversight, SWMS governance, notifiable incident management, and regulatory interaction.

  • Principal contractor duty of care: legal test and evidence requirements
  • SWMS governance: review, approval, acknowledgement, and review-after-incident
  • Notifiable incident: immediate obligations and regulator interaction
  • Documented oversight evidence for coronial investigations
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🏗️ Construction PDF guide 18 pages

ISO 45001 for construction — OHS management system setup guide

Adapting ISO 45001 to construction site operations: hazard identification for high-risk work, SWMS integration, subcontractor inclusion, and audit programme for multi-site operations.

  • Construction hazard taxonomy aligned to ISO 45001 Clause 6.1
  • SWMS as documented operational control under Clause 8.1
  • Multi-site audit programme management
  • Subcontractor inclusion in OHS management system scope
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⛏️ Mining & Resources 2 guides
⛏️ Mining & Resources PDF guide 20 pages

Critical control management guide — implementing ICMM principles for mining operators

How to identify, verify, and monitor critical controls for fatal risk scenarios. Includes control effectiveness criteria, verification activity design, and escalation when controls are found degraded.

  • What makes a control 'critical' — ICMM definition and criteria
  • Verification activity design for each critical control type
  • Recording verification outcomes and escalation triggers
  • Governance requirements: verifier authority and competency
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⛏️ Mining & Resources PDF guide 14 pages

MSHA compliance guide — mandatory incident reporting and investigation

US mining operators' mandatory obligations under 30 CFR: dangerous occurrence classification, immediate notification requirements, investigation timelines, and record-keeping for MSHA inspections.

  • 30 CFR Part 50: accident, injury, and occupational illness reporting
  • Dangerous occurrence classification and immediate notification
  • Investigation requirements: timelines, documentation, MSHA coordination
  • MSHA inspection readiness: records, policies, and training documentation
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🚢 Maritime 2 guides
🚢 Maritime PDF guide 22 pages

ISM Code compliance guide — building an effective Safety Management System

Practical guidance on ISM Code implementation for ship operators: SMS documentation structure, internal audit programme, non-conformity management, and DPA responsibilities.

  • ISM Code element-by-element implementation checklist
  • Safety Management Manual (SMM) structure and required content
  • Internal audit programme: frequency, scope, auditor requirements
  • Non-conformity management: classification, timeline, and root cause
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🚢 Maritime PDF guide 16 pages

Port State Control preparation guide — avoiding ISM deficiencies and detention

How to prepare for PSC inspections: the most common ISM deficiencies, documentation readiness checklist, crew preparation, and response procedures when deficiencies are identified.

  • Top 10 ISM deficiencies found by PSC inspectors globally
  • Documentation readiness: what inspectors ask for and in what order
  • Crew briefing guide for PSC inspection scenarios
  • Responding to PSC findings: rectification, appeal, and detention management
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Beyond the guides

SIRAM implements these requirements — not just documents them

Each guide above maps to SIRAM platform capabilities. When you activate the platform, the compliance framework becomes operational — not a PDF in a folder.

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Compliance mapped to platform
Every guide clause is linked to the SIRAM module that implements it — risk register, audit programme, incident capture, documentation.
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Evidence generated automatically
SIRAM produces audit programme reports, incident records, corrective action logs, and read acknowledgements — all regulatory evidence.
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Governance validates compliance
The governance engine enforces auditor authority, competency, scope, and independence — so compliance is not self-declared, it's enforced.

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