Health and safety at work

Health and safety at work law imposes a responsibility on the employer to ensure safety in the workplace for all their employees. The measures to determine adequate health and safety services at work include reasonable steps, which an employer has to adopt to ensure health and welfare of their employees.

Failure to ascertain proper measures of this could result in a criminal prosecution in the Magistrate's Court or a Crown Court. If the lack of safe working practices arises, the employee can be sued for personal injury or in some cases can also be prosecuted for corporate manslaughter. Health and safety regulations of 1974 Act state that an employer must ensure the availability of safety equipment free of charge.

As a legal responsibility, the employer also has an implicit liability to take realistic steps as far as they are able to ensure the health and safety at work. Health & SafetySmart provides an online and telephonic consultancy advice, auditing and training provision on health, safety and environmental issues to a wide range of companies. Health & SafetySmart offers a comprehensive programme to help your business deal with this difficult area of management. We recognise that every organisation is different and therefore has different needs and priorities.

Health & SafetySmart further aims at helping you to develop an integrated set of systems and measures tailored to suit you and your staff. This responsible and principled approach will also reduce the risk of suffering financial penalties when your organisation is visited by a Health and Safety Inspector to observe your standards of health and safety at work.

Health and safety smart is endowed with responsible and experienced individuals who review risk assessment procedures. A full independent, external audit of your organisation can be embarked upon, if required. Health and safety smart is readily available to help you developing a comprehensive programme for health and safety at work designed to meet all your specific needs. With its expert professional, practical and affordable health and safety services, Health and safety smart boasts of having all types of clients ranging from small, medium and large businesses.

Our clients vouch for our dedicated services that have enabled them to achieve compliance and to expound them to the Enforcing Authorities that they have a successful management system offering adequate health and safety at work. We provide a comprehensive set of integrated services that enable you to achieve full legal compliance and to have an effective control over health and safety policies.

Our Health & SafetySmart programme includes: detailed health and safety policy document, risk assessment, comprehensive risk assessment service, fire safety, fire risk assessments, training, health and safety training service, audit, expert analysis of your management, accident investigation, impartial and thorough accident investigation etc.

Health & SafetySmart offers an integrated set of management services carried out on an annual retainer basis that earns you a legal compliance through adequate services of health and safety at work.

• Health and safety at work
  Health and Safety at work law imposes a responsibility on the employer to ensure safety at the workplace for all employees.
  
  
• Health and safety audit
  Health and Safety Audit undertaken by a company helps it to identify, monitor and reduce any potential risks associated with unsuitable equipment and procedures.
  
  
• Health and safety legislation
  Health and safety legislation is aimed at safety in the workplace including consumer safety in the service area.
  
  
• Health and safety regulations
  Health and safety regulations, failure to comply with these regulations could lead to prosecution or the closure of your business.
  
  
• Health and safety information
  Health and safety information is a mandatory aspect of legislation which requires employees to ensure health and safety in the workplace.
  
  
• Accident reporting
  Accident reporting is mandatory under the RIDDOR act 1995 for most companies this is a rare act but knowing the law and following it, pays.
  
  
• COSHH - Control of substances hazardous to health
  COSHH stands for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health and is about gathering information on all products.
  
  
• RIDDOR
  RIDDOR stands for the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995.