Every employer has a statutory responsibility to appoint a person 'competent' to assist management to safeguard the safety and heatlh of employees, in accordance with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, para. 7.
Only a minority of employers are in a position to appoint well-qualified specialists in safety management to assist them with whis competence.
We are pleased to negotiate service level agreements for this purpose.
Relying on more than luck
It is possible to run a business for some time without injuring anybody. At the same time, luck is a great ally but a fickle friend. Risks of accidents and damage to machinery and equipment remain. The aim of the process of managing safety, health and wellbeing is to reduce risks to as low a point as can be achieved, while improving the likelihood of wellbeing associated with high, competitive and stable levels of performance.
Nobody expects to run the financial management of a business without keeping accounts, without basic rules for controlling costs and investing in vital resources. To control levels of safety in workplaces and the health levels of employees requires a system yuou can manage.
All Service Level Agreements
All Service Level Agreements we offer are designed to enable the employer to meet their basic, 'core' legal obligations. These include, for example, display of a policy about safetya nd health relevant to their employees, assessment of risks to their safety and health, regular surveillance of employee occupational health and summary guidance to senior managers on issues arising from the assessments and surveillance. This means guidance actions necessary to safeguard employees economically and as far as reasonably practicable. Where grave risks - for example, of fire, explosions, poisoning or contamination - raise issues about threats of possible corporate manslaughter, they are made clear.
Agreements for service we make specify the Regulations within the scope of the agreement so that you and your insurers can readily understand what forms of risk we enable you to manage.
So safety and health actively improve the quality of business performance
Applying the science of ergonomics enables employers to design or adapt machinery, equipment, power and handtools in accordance with the physical dimensions of employees, both able-bodied and those with diabilities. It also makes it possible for them to ensure that relevant statistical differences between males and females in the regard to lengths of their limbs, sizes of body parts and abilities to exert force are taken into account. What is more, 'cognitive ergonomics' - offering relevant knowledge about how errors arise, how people perceive notices and warnings, how they recall or forget, how they make decisions of different quality, how they communciate well or not so well or even badly - is applied so that management decisions can be readily put into practice and reported on without distortions. We offer the training and job aids that make ergonomic interventions cost-effective
In view of the costs of absence associated with work-related stresses of various kinds, it pays to channel the energies arising constructively. We offer the education, training and cultural supports that can convert risks of 'burnout' into opportunities for lasting engagement.