Making Health and Safety Work

Health and Safety can drive performance improvements within business and increase staff morale whilst reducing downtime and highlighting inefficient practices.

Health and Safety works delivers H&S services designed to be easily understood with staff commitment key to each project. We work closely with your staff to encourage best practice in a safer and more effective working environment.

Our key health and safety services include:

Health and Safety Consultancy

Effective Safety Management in the workplace is essential yet many organisations find interpreting and meeting legislative requirements difficult. This is where Health & Safety Works Limited can help.

Our service is designed to enhance company safety, reduce risk and save your business money.

We offer an integrated approach to your organisation's Health and Safety needs. Whether it be:

• Review or creation of new policies and systems.
• Help with CDM documentation and contractor safety. Note: we do not act as Principal Designers.
• Provision of a dedicated health and safety resource.
• Acting as the named H&S competent person for the Company.
• IOSH and bespoke safety training with courses tailored to your requirements.
• Specific expertise such as REACH, DSEAR, COSHH and biological hazards.

Whatever the consultancy requirement, we can help.

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Health and Safety Audit

Effective auiditing ensures adherence to all relevant health and safety legislation and offers best practice health and safety guidance.

Improvements to business processes promote safe working and reduce accidents, down time and work related injuries creating a better working environment.

We undertake thorough audits of safety management systems, using a preliminary questionnaire to ask all staff about safety within the organisation.

We will then review you documentation, to assess if it covers current legislation.

We would then visit site and interview staff about the safety skills required within their roles.

Following this we then check that the documented procedures are carried out within the business, risk assessments are understood and safety responsibilities are clear.

All the information is then documented in a safety management report with an action list and priority breakdown.

The whole report shows scores for each area audited which can be used for reference to measure improvements in subsequent audits.

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Health and Safety Risk Assessments

Providing risk assessments for all business activities is a legal requirement, but rather than being an administrative burden, effective risk assessments can identify and promote where there is good practice and where risks are controlled whilst illustrating where hazards have been overlooked.

Ideally we encourage staff to share responsibility for their working environment and business processes and be proactive in identifying areas of risk, recommending practical solutions.

We can provide a service to produce risk assessments for you or train your staff to undertake assessments and review their assessments.

The common matrix severity x likelihood system is used with the hazards identified and risks scored before and after controls are put in place.

Specific and generic assessments can be produced.

Generic assessments cover all possible business hazards.

Complex assessments in the use of chemicals and explosive atmospheres can be provided.

Office, DSE, Manual Handling, COSHH, DSEAR, Construction Work, Fire, PUWER, Noise and Biological Hazards are some of the areas we cover.

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Health and Safety Documentation

All of our documentation is practical and tailored to your business requirements. With usable risk assessments forms and effective understandable guidance.

HSW can produce all of your safety documentation be it:

• Policies
• Safety guidance
• Manuals
• Risk Assessment
• Safe systems of work
• Method Statements
• Safety Plans

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Construction and Refurbishment Safety

The CDM regulations help to improve health and safety and apply if you are involved in construction, with specific duties for all the parties involved:

• Clients
• Designers
• Principle Contractor
• Contractors

The aims of the regulations are to have competent people in the right job at the right time to manage the risks with the focus being on effective project and risk management.

We can provide:

• Pre-Construction Information Documentation
• Construction Phase Plans
• Risk Assessments and Method Statements
• Site hazard inspections
• Site Audits - to ensure all CDM documentation required is in place.

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