System and method for assisting an organization to implement and maintain compliance with various obligations

A computer-implemented method for assisting an organization to implement and maintain compliance management programs, the method comprising:

• allowing a user to display and enter data through a graphical interface, wherein the data relates to legislative obligations or other obligations with which the organization is required to comply, the interface arranged to display a plurality of user-selectable modules, each module relating to a particular piece of legislation or obligation;
• storing compliance criteria on the legislative or other compliance obligations in at least one master database coupled to the graphical interface for displaying data about the legislative or other obligations;
• storing information on activities of and incidents or accidents in the organization and assessments of the organization in at least one slave database coupled to the graphical interface for user entry of data about the activities of and incidents or accidents in the organization and assessments of the organization;
• assigning to the activities, incidents, accidents or assessments a priority rating and storing the priority rating in the slave database;
• retrieving data from the slave database about the organization;
• and
• retrieving legislative or other compliance requirements from the master database.