Health & safety that lets you run your business with confidence.
Fixed-price help with the safety side of running a business, so that when somebody asks to see your paperwork, you can hand it over without a search.
Three steps, and you'll know where you stand.
There's no onboarding and no sales process. For most businesses it's about a fortnight from the first phone call to a finished written Health & Safety pack.
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A free call
Fifteen minutes on the phone. You tell me what the business does and what has prompted the call: a notice through the door, a client asking awkward questions at tender stage, or a worry you have been carrying since Christmas. I'll tell you what the law asks of you and what I would charge. If the honest answer is that you don't need me, that is the answer you'll get.
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A visit to your premises
I walk round with you and watch the job as it is really done, which is never quite the way the manual describes it. Anything serious, you'll hear about before I get back in the car. Nothing important waits for the report.
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Your written pack, and a plan
Your assessments, your policy, and a list of jobs in the order they need doing, written so the people on the floor can follow them. Then we agree who owns what. If you would like me to hold the calendar of inspections and examinations, I will, and none of them will slip.
Within a week of the visit
Fixed prices, published.
Most firms make you ring to find out. Here is what things cost, so you can work out whether we're worth a phone call before you make one.
Full health & safety audit and review pack
A visit, the written pack, and the jobs you should tackle first. This is where most people start.
Notice response pack
For anyone holding an improvement or prohibition notice. I read what the inspector wrote down, put the remedy on paper, and assemble the file they will want on the return visit.
Retained support
A number to ring when something changes, a proper review once a year, and your statutory dates kept in my diary. No minimum term.
Every price is confirmed in writing before I start. Bigger jobs and multi-site businesses get a quote of their own. We're not VAT registered, so the number above is the number you pay, and the first conversation costs nothing whichever way it goes.
Your named competent person
Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 says every employer must appoint at least one competent person to help them meet their duties. Plenty of small firms have never got round to it, and they tend to discover this at the worst possible moment, when a form asks for the name.
On a retainer, the name is mine. It goes in your policy, the phone gets answered, and your arrangements get looked at more than once a year.
Big-firm expertise, without the big firm.
Safety consultancy has a reputation for being dull, overpriced and hard to pin down. Here is how this one works.
You get a person, not a department
There is no call centre and no account manager. Whoever walks your site is the same person who writes your assessments and picks up the phone six months later.
The price is the price
You'll have the cost in writing before the work begins. Nothing is billed by the hour, so an awkward job stays my problem and never becomes a line on your invoice.
Written to be read, not filed
A risk assessment nobody opens protects nobody. Yours will be short, particular to your building, and written in the language your staff already use.
Close enough to come out
A site visit is a drive up the road, not a three-week wait for a slot. If something needs looking at this week, it usually can be.
Everything your business needs to stay safe and compliant.
Take one piece of this or all of it. Most people begin with the audit and then work through whatever it turns up.
Risk assessments
Assessments for your building, your machines and the jobs your people actually do, including the ones everybody forgets: lone working, contractors on site, deliveries after hours.
Policies & documentation
A policy with your business in it. Not a document with somebody else's name deleted from the top of it.
Compliance audits & checks
A walk round with somebody who knows where inspectors look, and a short list of what to fix first.
Staff guidance & support
Toolbox talks pitched at the people doing the work, so the safe method is understood on the floor and not merely signed for in the office.
Ongoing support
New machine, new process, new starter. Things change, and the paperwork ought to change with them. This is the number for those days.
Inspection-readiness reviews
A rehearsal. I go round the way a visiting inspector would, and tell you what they will ask for while there is still time to find it.
Enforcement notice support
Been served an improvement or prohibition notice? The work starts from the regulation printed on it, not a general tidy-up of the yard, and it ends with something you can put in front of the inspector. If your compliance date is near, phone. Don't email.
- Offices & professional workplaces
- Schools & nurseries
- Warehousing & distribution
- Retail & hospitality
- Motor trade & light workshops
- Manufacturing & engineering
- Construction
- Care, clubs & community venues
The things people ask on the first call.
How quickly can you visit?
Usually within the week, and faster if a date is bearing down on you. That is the advantage of a local diary over a national booking system. Tell me the deadline on the call and I'll work backwards from it.
What will it cost?
The figures above cover most jobs, and you'll have the number in writing before anything begins. If the work turns out to be heavier than it looked from the doorway, that is mine to absorb.
Do I have to use a consultant at all?
No. The law says you need access to competent advice. It doesn't say that person has to come from outside, and if you have somebody in-house with the training and the hours, use them.
The reason firms still bring somebody in is the third word of HSE's own framework. Its guidance, Managing for health and safety, sets out Plan, Do, Check, Act. Most small businesses manage Plan and Do well enough, then stall at Check, because checking your own arrangements means marking your own homework. HSE's guidance on that stage talks about auditing, and about keeping the independence of the auditors under review, which is a formal way of saying that a fresh pair of eyes sees what a familiar one has stopped noticing.
That is the job an audit does, whether you give it to me or to somebody else. It is also where inspectors press hardest: not whether you have a policy, but how you know anybody follows it. I'd sooner tell you on a free call that you are in decent shape than sell you something you don't need.
I have been served an improvement notice. What happens now?
It names the law you are said to have broken, what is wrong, and the date by which it has to be fixed. An inspector normally comes back after that date to look. Between now and then your job is to put the underlying problem right and be able to prove you did, and the proof carries as much weight as the repair. There is also a right of appeal with a short deadline, worth understanding even if you choose not to use it. Ring me and we'll go through it.
What if my compliance date has already passed?
Then it is urgent. Phone today, and don't wait until you have drafted a careful email. Failing to comply with a notice is serious, and the sooner there is a written plan and visible progress on site, the stronger your position. Late is not the same as too late, and people are usually further from disaster than they fear.
Start with a conversation.
A short call, no cost and nothing owed at the end of it. Tell us about the place and what is worrying you, and we'll say what it would take to put straight.