Consultancy Services

Legislation places all employers under a general duty to have a health and safety policy and it needs to be a comprehensive statement of the way in which health and safety is implemented in the organisation. A compliant policy should contain a statement of intent, an outline of the organisation with allocated duties, roles and responsibilities and details of the arrangements and procedures that are in place to ensure compliance with the legislation and regulations. If the organisation has five or more employees there is also a requirement for this health and safety policy to be in writing.

Our consultant will discuss with you on how your business is structured, your activities, key responsibilities and essential personnel before quickly and efficiently drafting your tailored comprehensive health and safety policy.

Alongside this main policy, other more specific policies will help your organisation to be clear on how it tackles the issue of health and safety. Manual handling, lone working and working at height are just a few of the policies that GM Consulting can produce for you.

Like it or not, all organisations need procedures. Identified through risk assessment, every workplace will have numerous safety requirements that require written procedures to inform employees how to behave or respond to certain Health & Safety situations. These procedures could be for fire evacuation, accident reporting, terrorist threat or any number of other situations.

GM Consulting has a wealth of experience in writing bespoke procedures across many industries and will formulate your documents quickly and efficiently.

Risk assessments are the fundamental activity that underpins the UK’s health and safety legislation for the workplace. Employers need to undertake risk assessments that are both ‘suitable and sufficient’ in order to identify and address all the significant risks to the health and safety of their employees and to other people who may come into contact with the business or organisation.

GM Consulting can quickly identify your workplace hazards, discuss potential solutions and control methods with you and then prepare all the necessary documentation to enable you to fully comply with all current legislation. Our Consultants will also help you to introduce new control methods, monitor their effectiveness and review all assessments.

A safe system of work is a formal procedure designed to eliminate or control hazards. It will include the physical layout of the job, the sequence of operations, the provision of tools and equipment and the communication of relevant notices, warnings and any special instructions.

These written systems are needed whenever hazards cannot be physically eliminated and a significant element of risk remains. It is a set of written procedures that must be followed to prevent accidents or serious incidents and is particularly important when introducing new activities or equipment into the workplace. All such systems should be developed by competent persons and this is where GM Consulting can help, working as part of your team we will develop safe methods of operation and to share the responsibility for the implementation of new safe systems along with appropriate monitoring activities and review.

GM Consulting will undertake a variety of workplace inspections including:

General Safety Inspections – the requirement for these may be written into safe systems of work or specified in other policies and procedures. They look at the overall state of health and safety in the entire workplace.

Workplace Safety Inspections – a formal inspection of an area or department checking on hazards and the safety measures in use. This will include observation on maintenance and condition of the workplace, compliance with safe systems of work, housekeeping, warning signs, fire precautions, guarding or barriers and the use of PPE.

Maintenance Inspections – we can work with your engineers to ensure control systems remain fit for purpose and compliant.

Safety Surveys – these are narrower but more in-depth examinations of specific issues or procedures. Often implemented when new machinery or processes are to be introduced or when other types of inspection have highlighted an area of need

Safety Sampling – an organised system of regular random sampling with an aim to measure the attitude of the organisation and employees towards health and safety. It is the systematic recording of hazardous situations within a workplace or site.

We will look at your current health and safety regime along with all relevant history and records. We will talk with key personnel and observe ways of working over a period of timeat compliance. Audits often show how strong the health and safety culture is within an organisation and highlights areas where deficiencies have been identified.

A comprehensive audit report will be produced that can be used as a good starting point to take health and safety to the next level.

This is the easy way to ensure health and safety compliance. A realistic monthly fee in exchange for set levels of advice, information and assistance from GM Consulting. A more cost effective alternative than buying-in health and safety advice piecemeal if you have a lot of work that needs to be done. We have various option levels to choose from and are confident that one of them will suit your needs. Contact us to hear how you can enjoy enhanced levels of service at extremely competitive prices.