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
• Provision of a dedicated health and safety resource
• Acting as the named H&S competent person for the Company
• IOSH and bespoke safety training
• Specific expertise such as REACH, DSEAR, COSHH, biological hazards or radioisotope.

Whatever the consultancy requirement, we can help.

Laboratory Safety and Biotechnology Safety

We can offer specalist knowledge and experience in laboratory safety and Biotechnology safety, from general laboratory work, genetic manipulation, Biosafety - category II and III containment and a understanding of radioisotope safety.

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 decide 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 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.

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 were 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 and can then be cut and pasted to produce specific assessments.

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 are some of the areas we cover.

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

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
• CDM-coordinator
• 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 Safety Plans
• Risk Assessments and Method Statements
• Site hazard inspections
• Site Audits - to that ensure all CDM documentation required is in place.

HSW Ltd can also act as the CDM-coordinator for the entire project.