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Health and Safety
Putting Systems Together for an Up-coming Assessment
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The clients, who are energy brokers, approached us. They were a newly established company but with established contacts in the industry. They had been trying to put their systems together to provide a good score on Achilles. They had 3 weeks left before an assessment of their system to the Achilles and had made vey
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Providing a Structured Health & Safety Management System
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A company specialising in ironmongery, hardware, homeware and china, had identified that the health and safety management system was no longer providing a benefit to the business or providing the directors with peace of mind that legal compliance was being met. Our consultant reviewed the hazards and risks within the business. Using this, we provided both
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Are You Getting Away With it?
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An accident is an unplanned event or series of events that result in loss or harm – be that an injury, damage to plant/equipment or rejected product. How often do we take that wider view of what an accident is? Or does the mantra “no harm, no foul” take precedence because it requires less effort.
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Good Health & Safety is Common Sense (Part 2)
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What does your health and safety policy statement say about your business? Is it a clear statement of what you’re going to do, how you’re going to do it and who is responsible for making it happen? Does it say that you’re a business that takes responsibility and gets the job done? Or is it
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Good Health & Safety is Common Sense
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Good health & safety is common sense. It is about identifying the significant hazards in the workplace, then assessing the risk and putting in place controls to reduce the chances of harm occurring to as low as reasonably practicable. It is about effectively communicating the hazards and risks to those who may be affected by
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Pub-Restaurant Turnaround
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A pub-restaurant had been performing poorly; with sales dropping and costs too high, WLP were asked to turn the business around. After addressing health and safety, food hygiene and other compliance issues, WLP introduced new seasonal menus featuring fresh, local produce and affordable pricing. We then set robust cost controls, challenging performance targets and began
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Improving System Standards…
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Office2Office provides a range of business services, including office supplies business, logistics and managed communications. The business has a strong corporate social responsibility ethic and wished to achieve certification to the BS OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Standard. Our consultant worked with the Group Safety Manager, identified gap between the existing management system
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Blinds company implements effective Health and Safety
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A manufacturer of window blinds and sunblinds, recognising that it was not fulfilling its obligations under health & safety law, sought help to ensure legal compliance. Risk assessments were carried out to determine the health & safety legislation applicable to the business and the measures to be applied to ensure safety and legal compliance. From
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Cutting through the red tape
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Cutting through the red tape. The Red Tape Challenge initiative (www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk) has promised a tidy-up of legislation across a broad range of business areas. Very broadly they fall into the categories below, although some industry sectors have been picked
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