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At our first meeting we will consider your existing or proposed health & safety policy, risk assessments and safety management arrangements, method statements, staff safety training etc.

This allows us to highlight areas that may require particular or immediate attention. Please note that we will do this with you, allowing you access to every aspect of the process.

HEALTH & SAFETY STATISTICS

Even now despite strict regulations and warnings from governing bodies like the HSE, things still go wrong for employers and their employees. In 2007/08 the UK working population suffered:

229 workers were killed in the workplace.

299,000 reportable injuries in the workplace, advised to the HSE.

2.1 million people suffered from illness caused or made worse by current or past work.

34 million days lost overall due to workplace injury or ill health.

These statistics from the HSE not only confirm the impact to industry as a whole, but also stress the importance of correctly implementing Health & Safety policies within your business. SMART-Health & Safety Solutions are health and safety consultants that specialise in supporting small to medium sized businesses who cannot justify the direct employment of a health and safety manager.

In our experience many SME’s do not fully comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974 (HSAWA74) and supporting Regulations. In general most companies already know this. They would like to comply, but are concerned that once they attempt safety improvements they will open themselves to a mixture of diverse issues from their staff, reduce profits – and generally make life a misery all round…Which is simply not true!

Furthermore, many companies do not care for ‘advisor’s’ or ‘consultants’ telling them what they already know – and billing them for the privilege.

They are irritated by those who sell by fear – claiming you can go to prison or incur massive fines. What these companies want is some help to comply, without messing about with their productivity unnecessarily. SMART – Health & Safety Solutions are different to many other health and safety consultants and advisory companies – in so far – we get involved by helping you manage the introduction of safety. Initially we will start at a basic level of getting by achieving compliance with HASAWA74. Once clients understand the process they often request further improvements to their overall health & safety commitment. This is because they find they are more confident handling their staff; winning contracts and satisfying the terms and conditions of their insurance underwriters.

We also assist you to undertake Risk Assessments on:

Expectant Mothers, Young Persons, Special Needs, Disabled Persons, DSE, Manual Handling, Fire related and Other Hazards

And general assessments on:

DDA including compliance audits with fully workable solutions.

Our expertise is in evaluating the current position with respect to preventing injury and compliance, and to offer practical programmes to improve health, safety and environment performance. The practical programmes are based on a continuous improvement approach – commencing with topics of the highest priority and tailored to the resources of the client. The client’s involvement in solutions is paramount, and they can expect to do much of the work with support, and under guidance from, ourselves. We will work along with the client to reach a situation where they can have confidence that they will have done as much as is reasonably practicable to prevent injury to those in their workplace. Example Project – Concrete Batching

Services Also Include:

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

MITIGATING RISK

IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY

MANAGEMENT FOCUS