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The Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) Standard specifies requirements for an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system, to enable any organisation to control its OH&S risks and improve its OH&S performance.
Our auditors have many years of experience. Once you have booked your audit in, we will do some pre-audit checks, such as checking your website, your policies, and your previous audits, we will then come into your school or business for a day (or 2 depending on the size), we will speak to key members of staff such as Managers, Site staff and administrators to get a complete picture, each area of the audit will be given a score from 0 which is non-compliant to 3 which is considered good practice, we then take the information back to the office, write up an evaluation, total up the scores and send it back to you with full recommendations and points of actions that are prioritised with a suggested time frame for completion.
Our school health and Safety audit covers well over 40 different sections to get a full picture of your setting. Areas covered include legal requirements, asbestos, catering, fire management, infection control, manual handling, legionella, security, online safety, tree management, transport and many more.
For schools, the audit also broadly covers ‘Safeguarding Children’ criteria including meeting the needs of SEND children, providing first aid, use of reasonable force, intimate care, educational visits and more. It is recommended that an auditing of health and safety management systems and monitoring health, safety and welfare standards in Academies, Voluntary Aided and Foundation schools are audited every 3 years at the request of the school. In terms of the auditing of businesses, we will undertake audits on request.
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Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, every employer with five or more employees must prepare and revise a written Health and Safety Policy. Guidance from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) suggests that the Policy should be made up of three parts – a statement of intent, an organisation section, and an arrangements section. Health and safety Policies need to be useful and appropriate for the business in hand rather than simply a chore to write, read once and hidden in a file, only to be brought out when an Inspector calls! Every year we amend and personalise hundreds of policies, we make sure they really are relevant and useful for your organisations.
As part of your contract, you can send them to our team free of charge, we read of them, amend them, and send them back highlighted so you can see and consider the relevancy of the changes and action the amended points.
Risk Assessments
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 it is a legal requirement for organisations with 5 or more employees to have recorded risk assessments in place. Failure to provide these may lead to prosecution and difficulty in defending any personal injury claim.
Risk assessments must be 'suitable and sufficient' and be carried out by a 'competent person' i.e., someone who is familiar with the hazards of the work in hand, understands the risk assessment process, is familiar with the requirements of the supporting legislation and knows how to manage and control the risks to employees and others who may encounter the business.
Are you and your staff sitting comfortably? We can carry out Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments which will ensure that you comply with current regulations and reduce the risk of your staff suffering from the aches and pains sometimes associated with computer use. You will be provided with advice and information on how to reduce the risk of staff absence which may have been caused by a badly designed workstation, working environment or user posture.
Fire Risk Assessments
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, all employers with 5 or more employees must have a written fire risk assessment. Failure to have a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment can leave employers open to prosecution by the Fire Service.
Under the Reform Order, the 'responsible person' for the premises must carry out or commission a fire risk assessment, nominate enough competent persons (fire marshals) to assist in implementing the emergency procedures identified in the fire risk assessment, and make sure that appropriate management systems are in place.
Everything we do, is to give you an extra helping hand and peace of mind that you have one less thing to worry about.
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