Consultancy Services
At Risk Control Consultancy, a division of RCES (UK) Ltd, our team of highly qualified and experienced registered chartered health and safety practitioners can provide a complete safety service to allow you to go about your business and meet those all important targets without the worry of costly unsafe events bringing your production to a miserable end with damaging consequences.
Risk Control Consultancy can provide you with: Health and safety Audits - Health and Safety Inspections - Health and Safety Policy - Risk Assessments - Fire Risk Assessments - COSHH Assessements - Accident Investigation Service
Taking Health and Safety seriously means that you are investing in your staff, your reputation and your business. Risk Control Consultancy charge an hourly rate and not a retained fee for our on site consultancy services.
Figures released by the HSE on 28th June 2011 revealed that deaths in the workplace have increased by 16% in the last year. What's in a percentage figure? Well it means that 171 people lost their lives in the workplace during 2010/11.
Various experts point fingers at the government, after all they are planning to reduce workplace inspections along with budget cuts for the HSE and local authorities. But employers have a duty of care towards their employees, so forget the government decisions for a moment, just take a look at your own operation and ask yourself these 12 questions:-
- Are the lives or safety of my employees, colleagues and clients at risk?
- Do I have all the relevant controls in place?
- Do I have an up to date health and safety policy in place?
- Do I have suitable and sufficient risk assessments in place and when were they last reviewed?
- Do I have COSHH assessments for all hazardous substances in my workplace?
- Do I have a "responsible person" for fire safety ?
- Do I have a fire risk assessment in place?
- Do I have an Accident Reporting System in place?
- Do I have a training plan and a record of safety training?
- Is my organisation safe?
- Can I afford to lose production time due to a prohibition notice?
- Do I need some help to ensure the safety of my organisation?
Need some help: Call Risk Control Consultancy on 08456 048 116 or mail@rces-ltd.com
At Risk Control Consultancy, a division of RCES (UK) Ltd, our team of highly qualified and experienced registered chartered health and safety practitioners can provide a complete safety service to allow you to go about your business and meet those all important targets without the worry of costly unsafe events bringing your production to a miserable end with damaging consequences.
Taking Health and Safety seriously means that you are investing in your staff, your reputation and your business. Risk Control Consultancy charge an hourly rate and not a retained fee for our on site consultancy services.
Call now for all your health and safety consultancy needs or complete the enquiry form and one of our development advisers will contact you to discuss your requirements.
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RCES (UK) Ltd, Executive Director, Gordon Fuller is listed on the new Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR).
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RCES (UK) Ltd, Scientific Director, Sarah Fuller is listed on the new Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR)
Section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work Act require employers with five or more employees to prepare and revise on a regular basis a written health and safety policy together with the necessary organisation and arrangements to carry it out and to bring to the statement any revision of it to the notice of their employees.
This does not mean that organisations with four or less employees do not need a safety policy. It means that it does not have to be written down. The number of employees is the maximum number at any one time whether they are full time, part time or seasonal.
This obligation on employers was introduced for the first time by the HSW Act and is related to the reliance in the Act on self regulation by employers to improve health and safety standards rather than on enforcement alone.
A good health and safety policy involves the development, monitoring and review of the standards needed to address and reduce the risks to health and safety produced by the organisation.
The legislation requires that the written health and safety policy should include the following three sections:-
- A health and safety policy statement of intent which includes the health and safety aims and objectives of the organisation.
- The health and safety organisation detailing the people with health and safety responsibilities and their duties.
- The health and safety arrangements in place in terms of systems and procedures.
Should an inspector from the HSE or Local Authority visit, it is likely that they would wish to see the health and safety policy as an initial indication of the management attitude to health and safety.
Risk Control Consultancy can build your health and safety policy or review your current policy.
Risk Control Consultancy has an extensive body of knowledge with OSHCR registered consultants who possess Masters and Degree level qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety.
We offer some of the best value consultancy services in the country and we at Risk Control Consultancy charge an hourly rate, not a retained fee for our on site consultancy services.
Your health and safety policy will be presented in both hard copy and electronically.
To arrange for Risk Control Consultancy to build your health and safety policy please complete the contact form or call now on 08456 048 116 or email mail@rces-ltd.com
Should an accident or incident occur in your workplace there are numerous reasons for conducting an investigation
Is logical to assume that:
- All incidents / accidents have causes, therefore eliminate the cause and eliminate future incidents.
- The direct and indirect causes of an incident / accident can be discovered through investigation.
- Corrective action indicated by the causation can be taken to eliminate future incidents / accidents.
There are legal reasons for carrying out the investigation:
- To ensure that your organisation is operating in compliance with legal requirements.
- That it forms an essential part of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, regulation 5 requirement to plan, organise, control, monitor and review health and safety arrangements.
- To comply with the Woolfe Report; full disclosure of the circumstances of an accident has to be made to the injured parties considering legal action.
- The fact that a thorough investigation had been carried out and remedial action taken would demonstrate to a court that a company has a positive attitude to health and safety.
- The investigation will also provide essential information for insurers in the event of an employers liability or other claim.
Benefits from carrying out an investigation may include:
- The prevention of similar events occurring again.
- The prevention of business losses due to disruption immediately after the event, loss of production, loss of business through a lowering of reputation or inability to deliver and the costs of criminal and legal actions.
- Improvement in employee morale and general attitudes to health and safety particularly if they have been involved in the investigations.
- Improving management skills to improve health and safety performance throughout the organisation.
Risk Control Consultancy can provide you with qualified Lead Accident Investigators, who are members of the Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators (IIAI).
Risk Control Consultancy has an extensive body of knowledge with OSHCR registered consultants who possess Masters and Degree level qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety.
We offer some of the best value consultancy services in the country and we at Risk Control Consultancy charge an hourly rate, not a retained fee for our Accident Investigation Service.
To arrange for Risk Control Consultancy to carry out your Accident Investigation please complete the contact form or call now on 08456 048 116 or email mail@rces-ltd.com