When did You Last Review Your
Health and Safety System?

EDP is a Health and Safety Consultancy. We have been involved with Health and Safety for more than 20 years and have clients in many different sectors, ranging from the smallest SMEs to large multinational Corporations. Whatever your size or business, we can put together a Health and Safety system that is ideally suited to your needs.

This might be sounding like a very direct marketing letter but that is not our intention. We are simply making the point that we have a breadth of experience in devising and implementing Health and Safety systems.

The Problem of Neglect

The big question, however, is what happens after the initial system implementation project is finished. What happens to the policies, risk assessments, registers, training programmes, reporting mechanisms and the rest?

Our concern is that far too many systems, whether they exist in electronic form or as hard copy documents end up gathering dust on the proverbial shelf. When that happens, the investment that the organisation has made can actually work against them by creating a false sense of security – "we have our health and safety all buttoned up".

We might suggest all kinds of ways in which a good Health and Safety system can actually save money rather than be a net cost - by reducing sickness absence, for example, by improving staff moral or by reducing insurance premiums. In fact, if the system is consigned to the shelf rather than being an integral part of your everyday business, then it cannot deliver any of these benefits.

Does this touch a nerve with you? When did you last dust off those risk assessments? Possibly even worse, if your position in the organisation means that you have overall responsibility for Health and Safety though someone else deals with the day to day operations, do you have to admit that you have no idea when or even if your Health and Safety documentation was last examined.

For some organisations, their policies and risk assessments may be years out of date. During the intervening time, all kinds of changes may have occurred, including role responsibilities, business activities, levels of risk, risk management strategies and much more.

Ensure You and Your Employees Are Safe

If none of this relates to you because you genuinely have everything covered then may we congratulate you. If however you have allowed standards to slip and you no longer feel you have adequate control, then we would urge you to review your Health and Safety system now.

For many organisations a review should not require all that much effort and if it reveals that you have a lot of catching up to do, then better to find out yourself now, rather than have someone else poring over your systems following a major accident or worse.

Of course if your system does need some major work to bring it up to date - and this is our low key sales pitch – then we are here to help with as much or as little of the work as you need.

Let's all start the New Year knowing that we really are managing Health and Safety properly.

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To discuss your health and safety or environment requirements, without any obligation on your part, please gives us a call on 01744 766000 or complete the Enquiry Form on our website.

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