Health and Safety Audits

A health and safety audit highlights the main priorities for effective action and helps you to fulfil the legal requirements for monitoring. An audit provides you with a snapshot of where you are with health and safety and steers you towards legal compliance. The audit report we prepare for you contains clear, concise advice and recommendations as to the actions you may need to take.

Audits look at systems and the way they work and should not be confused with inspections which look at physical conditions.

We can also carry out an annual review and revision so that you can be sure that it will always be up to date with legislation and your current working practices.

Documentation

Policy documents, statements, compliance

Do you need a Health and Safety Policy?
The Health and Safety at Work Act requires every employer to have a health and safety policy and also that employers with 5 or more employees must have a written record of their policy.

Whether you are starting from scratch or reviewing a current health and safety policy, we will consult with you about your business to design a bespoke health and safety policy. This will allow you to achieve your legal obligation. The policy document will specify your strategy for achieving compliance and best practice providing clients with the security that you are doing the very best to protect staff and satisfy their legal requirements.

Your tailored health and safety policy will be produced following a thorough process of premises inspection, assessment of procedures, document audits and the identification of training requirements.

Advantages

Clearly identifies what your standards are

  • Identifies who is responsible for what
  • Satisfies the current HSE guidance
  • Tailor made to your business
  • Monitoring and other documentation can also be provided

Contractors Questionnaires

  • These seem to get longer and more unmanageable by the day
  • We can help you complete the health and safety sections of the questionnaires.
  • Even more useful we can help you achieve approved contractor status with the various safe contractor schemes (CHAS).
  • Our completed questionnaires have been approved by numerous safe contractor schemes and clients alike.
  • This enables our clients to tender for work without incurring the time and expense of completing a contractors questionnaire each time.

Safety audits and status report documents

A health and safety audit highlights the main priorities for effective action and helps you to fulfil the legal requirements for monitoring. An audit provides you with a snapshot of where you are with health and safety and steers you towards legal compliance. The audit report we prepare for you contains clear and concise advice and recommendations as to the action you may need to take. Audits look at systems, the way they work and should not be confused with inspections which look at physical conditions. We can also carry out an annual review and revision so that you can be sure that it will always be up to date with legislation and your current working practices

Method Statements

Only you know the methods you will apply to carry out your work, we can assist you to write your method statements if we: -

  • Visit the site
  • Look at the safety elements involved
  • See the construction phase safety plan
  • Discuss your approach, your schedule, your allocation of resources, and your interface with others
  • We will input the health and safety requirements
  • We will generate and append the necessary risk and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) assessments as required

Handbooks

We will create safety handbooks to suit your company's needs, we can also provide information booklets on all health and safety issues with your company details and logo printed on them.

It has been established that for every accident leading to serious injury there are approximately 10 minor injuries and 30 property damage incidents occurred prior to the major event.

Acorn Environmental Health and Safety Ltd
PO Box 674
Northampton
NN4 9UX

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