Health and safety risk assessments and audits

Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 all employers have a legal obligation to manage health and safety, to assess all significant risks and to control any risks that cannot be removed.

System Concepts provides consultancy ranging from a full health and safety audit and risk assessment of your premises, policies and procedures to specific risk assessments on activities, areas, individual pieces of equipment or psychological issues such as stress.

All our services focus on achieving high standards of health and safety which contribute to your organisation's business performance, while meeting your responsibilities for people and their working environment.

Benefits

  • Peace of mind - we will tell you how to meet your legal obligations in a practical, cost effective manner
  • Best practice - we are involved in the research which formulates the latest guidelines, so you get the most up-to-date advice to improve your business performance
  • A co-ordinated approach - we are experienced in all areas of risk assessments so we can cover, for example fire, display screen equipment and manual handling regulations as well as the latest thinking on access for the disabled in a single project.

Our approach

  • Practical, tailor made solutions to meet each client's unique business requirements
  • Structured process, often using specifically developed checklists
  • Can include inspection, observation, interviews and document analysis
  • Clearly prioritised, practical and cost effective recommendations for action
  • Support and advice provided at different levels to encourage clients to develop internal skills ultimately leading to self-reliance.

Typical projects

  • Auditing the health and safety policies and procedures for Alexandra Palace and conducting a full health and safety risk assessment of the site
  • Reviewing the management of health and safety for the TUC and developing their health and safety policy
  • Audits and risk assessments for, among others:
    • Department of Health, Commission for Health Improvement, Department for Transport, the Rent Service
    • Ernst and Young
    • Channel 5
    • AOL
  • Development of a stress risk assessment process for BUPA
  • Risk assessments for home workers for The Rent Service
  • Individual risk assessments for, among other things:
    • A bomb scanner
    • Use of car parks and traffic routes
    • Waste compactors
    • Ice skating.
  • We provided occupational health, safety and return to work advisers in Greater London for the HSE Workplace Health Connect project providing free health and safety advise to small businesses.

What do our clients say?

"We operate in a fast-moving business and looking ahead a number of areas, from IT to homeworking, will continue to raise health and safety issues for our employees. We are confident we will meet these challenges thanks to the comprehensive structure we now have in place in partnership with System Concepts."
John McCorquodale, partner responsible for health and safety, Ernst & Young

For more information on any of our services, please contact us

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 July 2008 )