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With our H&S Consultancy support you’ll have confidence in knowing that your Health and Safety Management is effective and fit for purpose. Our experienced consultants are here to provide professional, proportionate and practical customised support to help protect your business, your employees and others that might be affected by your undertaking. You’ll also boost your business credentials at the same time so your business can be confident in presenting compliance for contracts of all sizes / values.
We don’t offer hefty generic manuals, and we wont look to tie you down to lengthy contracts. We just simply aim to provide you with genuine tailored and customised support, while getting to know you, your management team and your business. We aim to build working relationships through working ‘with you’ not ‘for you’. Our customer service standards are important to us and what we are very proud of maintaining.
We offer services to meet one off requirements as well as contracted retained provision. Our standard support package, provides unlimited e-mail and telephone support (fair use), updates as relevant to keep you up-to-date on the latest legislation changes, document formats / templates, advice and guidance on health and safety management as well as training needs. The standard support package can also be tailored to suit your needs so if you’d like you could include any of the following services;
- Expert guided application to meet SSIP (https://ssip.org.uk/) requirements through schemes such as CHAS, Safecontractor, SMAS and others
- Guided applications to Constructionline
- H&S Policies, Handbooks and Guidance
- Accident Investigations & RIDDOR Notifications
- Site visits (planned or unplanned) for Inspections and Audits
- Construction (Design and Management) H&S Inspections of site work
- Ensuring subcontractors are competent for H&S management prior to their engagement
- COSHH risk assessments
- Work activity risk assessments
- Premises / facility risk assessments
- Fire risk assessments
- Supporting you in responding to Health and Safety Executive Notices of Contraventions & Enforcement Action
- Supporting you on receipt of a Claims Letter from a Solicitor for a personal injury or diagnosed condition
- Food safety / food hygiene preparation for when the EHO calls and to ensure you have the knowledge and systems in place and embedded so you are best placed to achieve the rating you desire
Have the confidence in working with not only experienced but also OSHCR registered consultants https://www.hse.gov.uk/consultant/find-a-consultant.htm, where competency and insurance provision is independently vetted.
Health and Safety Policy
If you have five or more employees, it’s a legal requirement to have a written health & safety policy in place which sets out your approach, who does what, where and when. This needs to be carefully prepared so as to be fit for purpose and also communicated to your employees
Workplace inspections
Workplace inspections are a key part of good health and safety management and are part of the HSE model for managing Health and Safety (PLAN, DO, CHECK, ACT) allowing you to check that your workplace and work activities are healthy and safe. Workplace inspections can help to prevent incidents, injuries and illnesses, but can also identify specific hazards or processes that may not have been known or situations where planned control measures are not effective.
Requirements for health and safety inspections will differ from business to business. This will vary based on types and complexity of operations, competency level of workers or employees, actual levels of risk, number of personnel involved as well as the general attitude towards health and safety within the organisation.
The frequency of required inspections will vary and depend on the nature of the work. Inspections may be less often, for example, if the work environment is lower risk. However if there are workplace or specific activities that are of higher risk or where the working environment changing rapidly, more frequent inspections may be justified.
Paul Chappell
Lead Health & Safety Consultant
Paul is an experienced Health and Safety Consultant with a wide ranging portfolio of Public & Private Sector Clients. He has previously worked within a Local Authority as a Health and Safety Adviser for many years, providing competent advice to a number of diverse operational areas. His experience of developing and expanding health and safety consultancy and training services means Paul is very well placed to offer practical, proportionate and professional support to Director / Manager level as well as all other employees in businesses looking for genuine support.
- CFIOSH - Chartered Fellow Safety and Health Practitioner, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- FIIRSM - Fellow of the International Institute of Risk And Safety Managers
- OSHCR - Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register – Registered Consultant
- Former Executive Committee Member – South Wales Safety Groups Alliance
- Former Executive Committee Member & Former Secretary – IOSH South Wales Branch
- Former Executive Committee Member (& Chair) – South Wales Construction Safety Group
- Former NEBOSH Examiner
- Former Accredited CHAS Assessor
Professional Qualifications
NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management
NEBOSH Construction Certificate
NEBOSH General Certificate
Fire Risk Assessment – Fire Protection Authority
Post Grad Diploma in Business Administration, Post Grad Diploma in Human Resource Management
PTLLS – Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector
Accident investigations
Businesses are required to record all accidents, incidents and dangerous occurrences that occur within their workplace or to their employees working elsewhere. In most cases, an accident report form is sufficient, along with maintaining an accident book. Its also good practice to record near miss events as well.
Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSiP)
For your preferred or chosen scheme (e.g. CHAS, Safecontractor, SMAS….) we will provide an expert guided support service, through provision of key forms and document templates as well as advice on any queries you have in relation to the relevant questionnaire or its completion. We can also undertake completion of the relevant questionnaire if desired to save you the time and hassle, and in doing so will first work with you to collect the respective evidence requirements. Also if you are a retained customer, you will have received a membership certificate from us to demonstrate you have a competent advisor available (a standard request for any SSiP member scheme) which is also a legal requirement. For your chosen application scheme (from start to completion), we will assign you a dedicated and competent health and safety professional who will gain an understanding of your needs and be on hand to provide any, help, advice or comment you need.
Most larger Client organisations, as part of their due-diligence responsibilities, are now requiring Contractors to undergo pre-qualification to determine their suitability to tender. The pre-qualification process can be greatly reduced if an organisation has already subscribed to a SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement) scheme such as SMAS, Safe Contractor, CHAS etc.