Health and Safety Strategic Review
From time to time it is appropriate to take a fresh look at the arrangements for health and safety within an organisation. We can assist by working with your leadership team or a nominated team member by taking a high level view of the business and how your health and safety management system can best fit your organisation. A full report with recommendations can cover all of the key components including policy, organisation, health and safety plan, measurement, audit and review in accordance with HSG65 'Successful Health and Safety Management’.
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Health and Safety Risk Assessment
A competent Adviser will identify the range of hazards associated with your activities and complete a risk assessment based on your current management arrangements and will recommend additional actions to further manage the risk to an acceptable level.
If required specific risk assessments can be undertaken for individual hazards or activities
These can include – Hazardous Substances (COSHH), Lone Workers, Manual Handling, Young Persons, Work Station and DSE or any other work activity requested.
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Health and Safety Policies and Procedures
We can assist you with the development or updating of your health and safety policy and all supporting procedures and documents. These policies and procedures will be designed to reflect the nature of your organisation and its activities. We can also develop specific solutions to more complex activities such as electrical safety or control of contractors.
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Health and Safety Audits
Auditing is a process of checking that what is in place is meeting expectations. We can agree an audit protocol that meets your needs and includes a check of the management system as well as a physical site inspection. We can report findings and recommendations for the whole business or on a site by site basis.
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Accident and Incident Investigation
When something goes wrong a thorough investigation can help identify the basic causes so that action can be taken to prevent a recurrence. Examples would be after a RIDDOR reportable accident, a significant incident or even a near miss. The investigation would gather relevant information for reference in the event of enforcement activity or a claim. Typically we would visit site and gather the facts, interview witnesses and produce a report with recommendations. If appropriate we will liaise with enforcement authorities.
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Working Environment and Monitoring Surveys
We can provide a range of workplace surveys on request aimed at ensuring that you provide a safe and healthy work environment. These can include
- Air Sampling to measure air quality in the workplace
- Asbestos Surveys – Management, Refurbishment or Demolition Surveys
- Asbestos Condition Surveys to support your Asbestos Management Plan
- Legionella Surveys and Sampling
- Noise Surveys for noise risk assessments and environmental impact assessments
- Radon surveys
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Food Hygiene
We can provide guidance and advice on how you can ensure that your food storage, preparation and serving arrangements meet food hygiene requirements including HACCP analysis. We can also audit current arrangements.
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Gap Analysis
To assist organisations to understand where they stand on health and safety compliance we can undertake a Gap Analysis. This can be undertaken across a business or at a particular location(s) and will comprise a review of both the management system and a physical inspection. A report will make recommendations and allocate priorities that will help the organisation to meet legal requirements.
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Fire Risk Assessment
The Regulatory Reform Order and The Fire Safety (Scotland) Regulations require all non domestic premises to have a current Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) which is regularly reviewed. One of our team of qualified and experienced Advisers will work with the ‘Duty Holder’ to consider the range of hazards associated with your location and activities as well as current management arrangements, preventative measures and your emergency response. We will then produce your FRA with prioritised recommended actions to enable compliance. As part of the service we will provide Free Fire Safety training to employees to help you meet the legal obligation to train.
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OHSAS 18001 Accreditation
A measure of the quality of your health and safety management system is to gain external accreditation in the form of OHSAS 18001. Working with you we can assist with documenting your processes and checking that your arrangements will meet external audit and review to gain this valuable benchmark standard.
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Retail and Multi Site Audits
Organisations with multiple locations such as shops or stores, technical sites, offices, warehouses need to ensure that the premises and activities undertaken there are compliant. Our audits are tailored to your sector and organisation to ensure that you have a complete understanding of each location and can address common and individual issues.
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On-site audit
One of our team of trained and experienced Advisers will visit each of your locations to conduct a comprehensive audit. The audit will be tailored to your needs and can cover health and safety, accessibility, asbestos condition, environment, fire, food hygiene, hazardous substances, statutory inspections and any other topic you require.
Whilst on site we can check management arrangements as well as undertaking a physical inspection and can feedback our findings with a prioritised Action Plan while we are on-site.
We can also provide periodic reports of findings across locations visited.
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On-line Database
The audit findings, photographs and reports and any of your own relevant records that you need to have readily available can be stored on our online database. The database is secure and can be accessed by any persons that you nominate so that all information is instantly available and completely up to date.
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eLearning and training
The complex task of ensuring that all persons across multiple sites are fully trained can be eased as part of our audit process. We can identify training needs and deliver online eLearning that can be undertaken anytime, anywhere or we can run courses as required. Typical topics can include Induction, Asbestos Awareness, Display Screen Equipment, Fire Safety, Manual Handling and many more
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Enforcement Support and Guidance
From time to time you may have a visit from an Enforcing Officer from the HSE, Fire Authority, Environment Agency or Local Authority. These officers have wide ranging powers and can provide you with useful advice and guidance, send you a letter explaining what is required of your organisation, issue either Improvement or Prohibition Notices or prompt prosecution. We can help you to prepare for a visit or assist you to implement any requirements of the Enforcing Authority.
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Workplace Inspections
We can undertake physical inspections of your workplace(s) providing reports with prioritised recommendations. If required we can provide a workplace risk assessment that helps you to meet the intent of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
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Workstation and DSE Assessments
These assessments are aimed at employees who use computers, to ensure that you are able to meet the requirements of the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations. These Regulations require that workstations and users of DSE are assessed and the findings recorded.
We can support you by either providing one of our trained and experienced Advisers to visit your premises and undertake a face to face assessment or we can provide our online User Workplace Assessment (UWA) solution which when linked with our training can enable you to identify specific or general issues and ensure resolution.
We can also provide Occupational Health guidance from one of our OH Advisers to help you to deal with any individual cases where employees are reporting discomfort that might be related to their work station arrangements.
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Mobile Phone Health Issues
We have extensive experience of managing issues involving electro-magnetic fields (EMF). These may arise from your employees or contractors working close to transmitting or broadcasting equipment or from health concerns expressed by employees or customers using mobile phones or other equipment.
We can assist by understanding the context of the issue and providing guidance on best practice
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Outsourcing and TUPE Transfers
Health and safety outsourcing and TUPE transfers bring many benefits to employers. Praxis42 has a depth of experience to ensure that the process meets the intent of the organisation while securing the continued commitment of the transferring team members into our expert group.
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Access to Goods and Services
The Equality Act requires that providers of goods and services do not discriminate against those who may have a disability. This may include employees, customers and visitors to premises. We can assist with an audit and advice that considers access issues and provides pragmatic solutions and recommendations to make the environment user friendly and accessible.