Health & Safety Services
Leading specialists in Health & Safety Legislation
Health and Safety Support for SME businesses
Regardless of whether you have 2 or 20 employees, you have to provide the minimum policies pertaining to health and safety at work as outlined in the health and safety act.
The health and safety act puts a burden on employers, but arguably prevents numerous accidents every year.
You’re required, by law, to assign staff as health and safety support, including assigning a first aider. Should you fail to assign this or any other health and safety support staff and there’s an accident, the financial implications from not complying with the health and safety at work act could be severe.
If an accident occurs in the workplace that breaches the health and safety act it costs you time and unwanted publicity as well as money. As a business you need to manage your health and safety at work wisely, so make sure that you cover everything. Such issues that you need to cover to comply with the health and safety act include effectively managing employees, customers and visitors to prevent any accidents.
The importance of health and safety legislation
If you own a business it’s a legal requirement that you comply with health and safety legislation as laid out by the health and safety at work act. If you don’t have provisions in place to cover health and safety at work then you’re liable for trouble – you and your company could easily be in breach of the health and safety at work act, meaning that you’re open to hefty fines.
Health and Safety statistics: You're not alone
Even now, despite strict regulations and warnings, things still go wrong. In 2007/08 the UK working population suffered:
- Workplace deaths: 229 workers were killed in the workplace.
- Workplace injuries: 299,000 reportable injuries made to the HSE.
- Workplace sickness: 2.1 million people suffered from illness caused or made worse by current or past work.
- Working days lost: 34 million days lost overall due to workplace injury or ill health.
These statistics from the HSE not only confirm the impact to the industry as a whole, but also stress the importance of correctly implementing health and safety policies within your business. That’s why making sure that you’ve put practices in place to ensure health and safety at work is so important, and luckily, you don’t have to go through it alone.
We at NorthgateArinso are one of the UK leaders in providing employer services and are able to interpret health and safety legislation, can give health and safety at work advice and can dispense legal advice on the requirements of the official health and safety at work act.
How NorthgateArinso Employer Services can help you
Here at NorthgateArinso, we specialise in providing health and safety support and legislation as laid out in the health and safety at work act, saving hundreds of companies across the UK time and money.
Outsourcing your Health and Safety Consultancy requirements to NorthgateArinso Employer Services will deliver a number of benefits:
- Mitigating risk: Our advice will ensure that your business complies with health and safety legislation and will protect you from the penalties of non compliance.
- Improving productivity: By ensuring that employees work in a happy and healthy environment you get improved individual and business performance.
- Predictable cash flow: We minimise the risk of unexpected cash outlays by reducing the likelihood of accidents, and our indemnity insurance covers the cost of defending any safety prosecutions made against you.
- Management focus: Having our health and safety support means that you can leave it all to us, the experts, leaving you to do what you do best – running your business.
We also offer other advice and services related to health and safety, including the following:
- Health and Safety Advice
- Health and Safety Consultancy
- Health and Safety Gap Analysis / Risk Assessments
- Health and Safety Policies and Handbooks
Why NorthgateArinso for your health and safety needs?
At NorthgateArinso we can provide advice on the health and safety at work act, can help train your staff and can ensure that your business is fully compliant with health and safety legislation. We can even provide full insurance to protect you against criminal proceedings arising from false claims in respect of the work health and safety act.
So, when it comes to health and safety at work, make sure you come to us. We can provide advice on the health and safety act, health and safety support and health and safety legislation, and our expert advice could save you time and money.
For more information on our Health & Safety Services
To find out more about our Health & Safety Services, please call 0845 073 0260 or fill in our short enquiry form.
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