LEGAL COMPLIANCE AUDITS AND EVALUATIONS
Legal Evaluation
Legal compliance is a leadership duty. Evaluations highlight deviations, non-compliances, and risks, giving assurance that internal controls mitigate legal exposure.
Benefits:
- Reduced legal liabilities (penalties, fines, or shutdowns).
- Verified compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements.
- Functional improvements and assurance to customers.
- Keeps you current with changing legislation.
How often?
Standards like ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 do not prescribe frequency. Annually is recommended.
Environmental Legal Compliance Evaluations
What we do
We assess performance against applicable environmental legislation and maintain a legal register linked to your aspects and objectives. Typical components include site visits, evaluations, impact assessments, and legal advice.
Benefits:
Legislative compliance, reduced impacts, lower waste/water/energy costs, stakeholder assurance, and groundwork for ISO 14001.
Health and Safety Legal Evaluations
What we do
We appraise systems against relevant Work Health and Safety legislation and create a basis for ISO 45001. Costs of poor health and safety: fatalities/disabilities, absenteeism, equipment damage, investigations, insurance premiums, and lost production time.
Benefits:
Risk identification (HIRA), fewer injuries, legal protection, compliance verification, and clear SHEQ interpretations.
Costs of poor health and safety are high as a result of:
Labour Employment Law Services
What we do
- Reviewing current contracts of employment, restraint of trade, employment equity.
- Reviewing company policies and procedures.
- Providing evaluation services on compliance with Labour Law and best Human Resource (HR) practice.
Business Entity Law Compliance Evaluations
WWISE assists companies to comply with business entity laws by identifying and counteracting legal risks. We provide commercial law services and legal due diligence services that are specific to the organisation and the industry. This is done by providing the following services:
Compliance Consulting
What we do
The companyʼs Board of Directors is responsible for compliance management. However, the Board may delegate that responsibility to management in order to ensure that the implementation of compliance is effective. The purpose of compliance consulting is to reduce an organisationʼs exposure to punitive fines and penalties, WWISE provides Compliance Consulting services. Compliance Consulting ensures that an organisation adheres to applicable regulations and provides an independent appraisal of internal processes and systems.
Compliance Consulting
We help Boards and Management reduce exposure to fines and penalties by:
- Implementing compliance risk management systems.
- Verifying alignment to good practice (e.g., ASX Principles, ISO 37000).
- Reviewing compliance manuals and your compliance universe.
- Identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting compliance risks.
- Building training, awareness, and a compliance culture.