Self Assessment Checklists
Our self-assessment checklists break down the standard into easy to understand and manageable pieces. Completing one of these checklists will let you know how far your business is to becoming certified.













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Training Calendar
Compass Assurance Training provides a range of certification and assurance training.
Click the button below to see our list of upcoming course dates – including information on course details & enrolment applications.
Podcasts by Compass Assurance are available on iTunes & SoundCloud.
Business, Systems and Success is a podcast presented by Compass Assurance Services Managing Director Paul Lindsay where he interviews Australian business leaders about their businesses, their systems and how they achieved success.
Archived Resources
Looking for a Compass resource from several years ago?
We’ve kept an archive of our previous online files including presentations and videos.
- Certification Tips
- Compass Assurance
- Environmental Certification (ISO 14001, AS/NZS 5377)
- Food Safety Certification (HACCP)
- Info Sec Certification (ISO 27001)
- Quality Certification (ISO 9001)
- Safety Certification (ISO 45001, OHSAS 18001, AS/NZS4801)
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4 Ways to Protect your Information Security
ISO 27001 certification is aimed at creating and establishing processes to safeguarding information from unauthorised access, use, destruction, modification or disclosure. Information security is an essential component to the successful operation of any organisation regardless of your size or industry. Your business will deal with sensitive information of some sort…
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How does the AS/NZS 5377 E-Waste Standard apply to your business?
Whatever happened to that old pocket calculator – remember those? Or that big, yellowing computer monitor that stopped working? With the rise of technology invading every part of our lives, e-waste is becoming a big issue that we need a smart approach to in order to avoid a Wall-E style…
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But I don’t handle food –Why do I need HACCP Certification?
You’ve got a phone call, email, carrier pigeon from a client or prospective supplier asking if you have or are prepared to get HACCP certification. But you don’t handle food, why is this relevant to you? We can tell you why. HACCP certification is about managing risks within the food…
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Top 3 Tips for Running an Engaging Training Course
Training courses are often met with the same reactions, death by PowerPoint, going nowhere, dragging things out, trainer going on and on, bad coffee and stale biscuits (okay maybe not the last one). But they don’t always have to be like that. As a person of a certain age, I…
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She’ll be right! Current Australian attitudes to risk.
Late last year 2 men (skilled earthmoving operators) were seen waiting out a storm by raising the bucket of their 20-tonne front end loader up and then standing under it, using it as an umbrella. When approached about the stupidity of this act the reply was “she’ll be right!” A…
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So why do we need to be concerned about digital security?
As organisations have become more connected with increased information flows productivity has improved dramatically. The flip side to all this is that we are now more reliant on this data and information than ever before. If our organisations data becomes corrupted, destroyed or falls into the wrong hands it can…
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