Health & Safety Consultancy
Having good health and safety standards at work is vital. Good standards ensure that your workforce feels both valued and safe. Every business is legally required to manage health and safety. This applies to all workplaces whether in a factory, an office, a building site, a warehouse, or elsewhere.
Keeping up to date with rules, regulations and procedures that your business has to adhere to can be time consuming. We can help with these duties allowing you more time to run your business.
We pride ourselves on giving sensible and workable safety advice which is aimed at complementing our clients’ workplace operations rather than hindering them. We apply a common sense and proportionate approach to ensure our clients are; legally compliant, operating safely and yet remaining productive.
Working together with our clients we can help you manage workplace health and safety issues by developing solutions that are tailored to your business
Below are some of ways in which out safety consultancy services can assist you and your business:
Writing Health and Safety Policies
Section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires that any employer who has five or more employees must produce a written safety policy. The policy must be signed by a senior executive and dated. As it is intended to be a living document, it must be reviewed on a regular basis, and revised to account for any changes in the law or in working procedures.
Even where a policy statement is not required by law, smaller organisations are increasingly being required by clients or prospective clients to produce a statement of intent for health and safety, as they require all partners in their business to demonstrate that they operate safely.
Practical Safety Ltd has extensive experience in writing bespoke policies for a range of clients in different sectors. As with all of our provided documentation, it is fully editable by our clients
Conducting Risk Assessments
Risk Assessment is a legal requirement for all businesses. Regulation 3 of ‘The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999’ places a duty on all employers to conduct Risk Assessments and where there are 5 or more employees these must be written down.
We have conducted Risk Assessments across a large range of sectors on behalf of our clients. Our assessments involve a detailed analysis of a specific work activity or more specific hazards such as Manual Handling, CoSHH, Work Equipment or First Aid needs assessments.
We also provide a Risk Assessment Review service which ensures that your Risk Assessments are always up to date and current.
Practical Safety Ltd can provide bespoke risk assessment documentation for our clients or if required, we can adopt a clients’ current format. All of the documentation we provide is fully editable and customisable by our clients
Safe Methods or Work
Safe Methods of Work or are known by a variety of different names, for example Safe Systems of Work (SSOW), Working Procedures (WPs), Safe Working Procedures (SWP’s) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Method Statements etc.
They are all variations of the same concept which is for employers to accurately document how the work of the company should be undertaken in a safe manner by its employees.
Employers are required by law to implement SSOW. These are developed by a process of firstly recognising the significant hazards which are applicable to your workplace, then subjecting each hazard to a risk assessment process. The result of the risk assessment process is the detail used to develop a safe system of work.
When Safe Systems of work are developed they should be rigorously implemented. They are the standard used to determine fault should an incident occur. Clearly from this perspective it is important to get the balance right between insufficient relevant detail in the SSOW, which expose employees to unsafe working practices, and too much unnecessary detail which would hinder efficient working and ultimately production. Practical Safety Ltd has the training and experience to ensure the balance is right.
Competent Person Packages
‘The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999‘ require an employers to appoint a competent person to help them implement the measures they need to take to comply with their legal requirements.
Our Competent Person Service package means businesses can keep their costs down by not employing a full-time member of staff to deal solely with Health and Safety issues but have that reassurance of being able to request all of the professional help and advice they need as well as meeting their legal requirements as an employer, ultimately ensuring that the workplace is a safe and productive environment for all employees.
Competent Person Service package can be tailored to suit your needs. Our basic annual contract includes:
- A specific Health and Safety Policy ( 5 or more employees a legal requirement).
- An Audit of current working activities and a documented report.
- A Health and Safety Procedures Manual.
- On-going support and advice.
- Telephone advice line.
Contact Us today to discuss your requirements.
