On Site Services or Construction Sites

Site Safety Evaluation

We believe that we provide the most comprehensive and useful site visiting service available. The site visiting process is not just a policing exercise, but a wonderful opportunity to increase the health and safety knowledge of your team. We walk the site with your representative and discuss not only the current health and safety situation, but also how the site will develop. Whilst on site we will conduct 'toolbox' talks as necessary. We will remain on site 'as long as it takes'.

CDM Co-ordination (Construction Design Management)

We will act as CDM Co-ordinator (CDM-C) to our clients in accordance with Regulation 20 of the CDM Regulations 2007. As CDM-C we shall:

Issue notification to the Health and Safety Executive of proposed project
Advise and assist clients to comply with their duties under CDM
Notify the HSE about the project
Prepare the Pre-Tender health & safety plan
Ensure co-operation between designers such as architects and engineers.
Health and safety aspects of the design are properly considered and co-ordinated.
On site health and safe support
Contractor management
Induction Programmes
Co-ordinate design work, planning and other preparation for construction, with regard to health and safety
Identify and collect pre-construction information and pass to the relevant parties
Produce or update a health and safety file
Advising on the competence and resources of the designer and the contractors. Assist the Principle Contractor with the preparation of the Health and Safety file for the client.

Acorn Environmental Health and Safety can also assess competency of trade contractors via health and safety submissions.

Retained Health and Safety Services

This service provides organisations with a dedicated health and safety consultant in the field of health and safety. It is an integrated health and safety management system. This may be cost effective where the size or nature of the organisation does not justify employing a full time health and safety manager and allows an organisation to achieve legal compliance. The health and safety retained consultant service is established in consultation with you to suit your organisations requirements, budget and allows you to spread the cost over monthly payments.

The annual retainer service includes: -

Health and safety policy document
Legal compliance assessments
General risk assessments
Status report
Specific risk assessments
Prioritised Action Plan
Staff training
Monitoring documentation
Review and revision at least annually
Telephone advice

The advantages will be:

We set up the system saving your valuable time
We maintain the system to ensure you are kept up-to-date
You can achieve full legal compliance within a short time scale
You are able to demonstrate "due diligence"

Further support to non retained clients

Day to day support in health and safety
Telephone support and advice line can be linked to a small annual fee that will give you unlimited telephone advice

On site health and safe support

We can also provide assistance at your premises whenever you need it. We realise that it is important for continuity of service to be maintained. We aim to ensure that you always see the same consultant so that you and your employees can develop really good working relationship. This can be on a regular basis or pay basis ' whichever suits you best.

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.