Health and Safety Risk Assessments

Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 all employers have a legal obligation to:

• Manage health and safety
• Assess all significant risks
• Control any risks that cannot be removed as far as is reasonably practical.

System Concepts offers a flexible risk assessment service, tailored to your needs.  We can provide a full health and safety risk assessment of your premises or specific risk assessments for individual people, activities or equipment.  Specialist risk assessments we offer include:

• Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments
• Fire risk assessments
• Assessments for people with disabilities and building accessibility
• Manual handling assessments
• Equipment and/or business process assessments
• Stress and psychological issues

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.  For example we can cover 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

• Conducting a full health and safety risk assessment for Alexandra Palace
• Fire risk assessment services for Land Securities
• Workplace assessments for people with health concerns or disabilities for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills 
• Risk assessments for Ernst & Young including working on client sites and charity events
• 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 advice, including risk assessments to small businesses.

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