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Safety audits and inspections
An independent health and safety audit is a critical assessment of your organisation’s health and safety management system. It aims to cover the key aspect of the safety management system model, HSG 65 – Policy, Organisation, Planning and Implementation, Performance monitoring and review.
What we can offer
In the first instance, we will carry out a compliance audit and gap analysis of your existing system, including a review of your organisation’s health and safety policies and documentation. This will allow us to compare your current health and safety practices against best practice and relevant standards. This comparison will pinpoint the areas that are working well and those that fall short. For each of our audits we will develop a comprehensive written report, which will provide a clear picture of your performance.
The key to having a successful system is to understand why a particular aspect is failing so that the root cause can be addressed. Our gap analysis report will prioritise each identified deficiency, along with estimated timescales.
The goal of a successful health and safety audit is to deliver continual improvement. In order to achieve this we will develop a strategy, through a project-specific action plan, which will assist you in implementation of a safety management system. The plan will include:
- quantifiable actions with a suggested timescale;
- specific low-level recommendations to help you achieve completion; and
- a ‘sensible’ approach – focusing on the real safety issues, not trivial risks.
We can also provide follow-up management assistance to discuss the contents of the audit report and the implementation of the action plan.
Why choose Workplace Law?
We are an independent company whose strategy is to develop successful long-term relationships with our clients. We can only do this by working in partnership with you and meeting your individual needs.
Our intent is to enable you to make decisions that are right, by offering pragmatic and legally compliant solutions that are aligned with your objectives and based on your policies and procedures.
We offer an account-managed service that gives you unlimited access to the dedicated practitioners in our team. By working with them on an ongoing basis, we can respond quicker and provide more consistent advice than organisations that offer a ‘call centre’.
We believe that cultural change is vital to the acceptance of health and safety: we have carried out a cultural change programme for the Institute of Directors with successful results.
Everything we do for clients is bespoke: while we operate to recognised human resource and health and safety systems, we work to support our clients, rather than imposing a fixed solution on them.
All our health and safety advisors are qualified to Tech IOSH (as a minimum) and are experienced trainers, consultants and practitioners.
Our quality assurance process and CPD programmes ensure high standards with regard both to technical knowledge and levels of customer service.
Benefits
- Our unbiased analysis of your health and safety performance and how well your business is complying with regards to legislation enables us to identify hazards and risks which could possibly otherwise go unnoticed.
- We can help you achieve a well-run safety programme which can lead to lower accident and injury rates and, therefore, lower operating costs and insurance premiums.
- Demonstrating that management are serious about safety builds employee awareness as well as morale.
Case studies
In 2012 Workplace Law was asked to develop and deliver a property management-focused sustainability training course for BNP Paribas Real Estate UK. This is a branch of BNP Paribas bank, which provides a number of property services including development, management and investment of property portfolios across the UK.
Workplace Law was appointed in the final quarter of 2012 to assist Shelter with the implementation of an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS). Shelter wished to reduce its environmental impact, secure funding and make operational cost savings.
"In 2009 Chaps Ltd recognised that it needed to improve its health and safety systems. We changed our Health and Safety consultants to Workplace Law in order to give us a fresh approach towards our management of health and safety and to gain specialist construction advice.
"By using their expertise and experience Simon and Maria have guided us into developing a health and safety system that has achieved CHAS accreditation and given our customers and principle contractor’s confidence in our management of health and safety. They have always been available to offer advice when needed and to provide independent site inspections and audits which are often required by our customers.
"Both Simon and Maria continue to support Chaps Ltd and have become an important, integral part of our Health and Safety Management System."
Suzanne Jackson, HR Director, Emprise:
“Workplace Law has made a difference to the quality of the service we can provide to our staff. And because of the customised service from Workplace Law, the costs have come down.
“We’re now into the second year and we’re pleased with the level of service which is always turned around quickly with any queries being answered straight away.”
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