Building Health & Safety...
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Our Building Health and Safety Expertise /Services
We are and have been approved trainers for IOSH, NHS Property Services North West, Hampshire County Council, Southampton City Council, Liverpool & Sefton Health Partnership and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust among others.
Our experience in Construction Health and Safety includes previously approved trainers for the Construction Industry Training Board, Health & Safety advisers to many construction company’s and as CDM Co-ordinators on projects ranging from a £10m Health Centre and library in Liverpool, to the restoration of a grade 1 listed building in Henley on Thames and Church’s Shoes boutique within Harrods London and the construction of the only green oak grid shell building constructed in the UK.
Health & Safety Training
We can offer IOSH approved or company specific Health & Safety Training courses for both your managers and staff.
We have trained over 3000 people on CDM.
We are able to offer our clients a wide range of customised health and safety training including :–
IOSH Accredited Managing Safely
General awareness for managers and/or staff
Stress Management
Control of Hazardous Substances (COSHH)
Display screen equipment assessor
Display screen user
Risk Assessment
Manual handling
Fire Safety
Fire Marshall
Health & Safety Monitoring
The Health & Safety at Work etc Act requires all employers with 5 or more employees to monitor and review their performance on health & safety and it is important to be able to show evidence of this. In practice, this requires periodic checks on all health, safety and welfare aspects of an employer’s undertaking.
Our aim is to enable our clients to undertake this function for themselves. We can provide the expertise and the tools to achieve this in a practical and cost efficient way.
Fire Safety Management
As a team we have a wealth of experience in supporting clients with the fire risk assessment process and in the production of fire safety management plans, to ensure full compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Clients often ask us to attend when Local Fire Authorities arrange site inspections of premises or where there may be issues which might lead to an Enforcement Notice.
We regularly carry out fire safety audits for a wide range of clients and premises to evaluate the level of compliance and identify any significant risks to fire safety.
Policies, procedures & Risk Assessments
Construction Safety Soloutions
CDM Co-Ordinators
For all but the smaller employer, Health & Safety Legislation requires a written health and safety policy and documented risk assessments.
The principle of risk assessment is fundamental to all modern H&S Regulations but is, in fact, a basic mechanism we all use for self preservation in everyday life without even thinking about it, let alone write it down. Simply crossing a busy road involves a judgement about the potential harm that could result and, the level of risk can easily increase if we have young children with us.
Often, the pressure of rushing to meet deadlines or just trying to get the job done, can mean that with the best of intensions, we actually increase the risk of things going wrong.
When writing down the way things should be done to protect the operatives or others who might be affected, employers need to recognise that pieces of paper never prevent accidents. It is the simple clear description of how things should be done, that everyone can understand and that can be monitored, which are the most effective. Piles of dusty volumes on the office shelving that no one ever reads won’t help.
We help our clients with producing the right amount of documents which are proportionate to risks and are simple to understand.
The construction field has been at the heart of our business for almost 20 years. Whether our clients were small companies with just a handful of employees or public/private sector organisations undertaking multi million pound new build or refurbishment projects, our approach has been the same.
We believe the key to successful management of construction safety emanates from proper consideration of the potential risks, early involvement and co-operation of all parties and the joint development of practical achievable systems of work, which can be clearly understood by all those actually carrying out the work.
Under the Construction Design & Management Regulations 2007 our knowhow and experience is unrivalled.
We can offer a fully qualified and experienced CDM Co-ordinators service.
We provide advice on all construction issues.