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Crystal Clear Compliance

Our concept is to provide small to medium sized businesses with safety solutions to facilitate legal compliance and good practice in their industry. Crystal clear compliance is achieved by working with businesses to design safety systems and deliver technical training to promote implementation. Imparting safety knowledge can change behaviour, reducing sickness absence, accidents, avoiding fines and prosecution.

Invest in the Future of Your Company

Don’t just buy a safety manual to decorate your shelves, because by the time the dust has settled it will be out of date and you will not be legally compliant. Safety legislation is moving rapidly towards self-regulation, so why not invest in your own employees and build a workforce that puts procedures into practice, able to manage change.

Promote a Safety Culture in Your Company

Break down the barriers between learning theory and practical application, by having training delivered in your working environment. Research has shown that this will increase the likelihood that safety behaviours will change, as it is easier to visualise implementation in familiar surroundings.

Aim Higher

With systems in place to reflect your safety needs and employees trained on implementation, you are ready to update these essential foundations when you receive our complimentary legal updates.

Professional Services

   Health and Safety Systems:
  • Risk assessments, safe systems of work & emergency planning
  • Auditing against company systems and national standards
   Food Safety Management:
  • HACCP systems & establishing a due diligence defence
  • Managing food complaints, food poisoning outbreaks & labelling issues
  • Auditing against company systems and BRC standards
Training and Coaching:
  • Induction, bespoke in-house workshops & delivery of a wide range of accredited and certified food hygiene & health and safety courses
A Concept Shared

All associates have extensive experience of working with small to medium sized businesses, each with a specialist area of expertise.
  • Health and Safety Associates are members of Institute of Safety & Health.
  • Food Safety Associates are corporate members of the Chartered Institute

Emergency First Aid in the workplace for the appointed person

It is a legal requirement to ensure that you have made adequate first aid provisions in the workplace. Where an employer's assessment for First Aid needs identifies that a first aider is not necessary, the minimum requirement for an employer is to appoint a person to take charge of the first aid arrangements. This includes looking after the equipment and facilities and calling the emergency services when required.

Benefits:

By the end of the course, candidates will be able to demonstrate the essential knowledge and skills needed to deal with life threatening emergencies in the workplace. Successful students will receive a certificate recognised by the Health & Safety Executive, which is valid for 3 years.

Course outline includes:
  • What is First aid?
  • First aid in the workplace
  • Responsibilities of the appointed person
  • Action at an emergency
  • Primary assessment
  • Secondary assessment
  • Breathing & Circulation
  • Principles of resuscitation
  • Airway obstruction
  • Disorders of circulation
  • Bleeding
  • Shock
  • Burns
  • RICE procedure
Health & Safety Approved Centre Reg No 29/99

Duration - 6 hours

First Aid at Work

Overview

People at work can fall ill or suffer injuries at any time and it is important that they receive immediate attention. First aid at work covers the arrangements that must be made. A qualified first aider can save lives and prevent minor injuries becoming major ones. It is also the law to have a qualified first aider in the workplace in certain situations. If you are committed to the laws of the health & safety executive and investing in the safety of your employees, then this training is for you or your potential appointed first aiders.

Course outline includes:
  • What is First aid?
  • First aid in the workplace and the Responsibilities of a first aider
  • Action at an emergency
  • Primary & Secondary assessment
  • Breathing & Circulation
  • Principles of resuscitation & related procedures
  • Breathing & Circulation
  • Wounds and Bleeding
  • Incident Management
  • Shock, Bites & Stings, Poisoning, Choking
  • Burns & Scalds
  • Bones, joints & muscle injuries inc RICE procedure
  • Examination
Health & Safety Approved Centre Reg No 29/99

Duration 4 Days (option over 1,2 or 4 weeks)


Safety Habits

Complicated health and safety legislation unravelled and translated into simple, easy to follow steps to get your foot firmly on the first rung of the health and safety compliance ladder.

Workshop Benefits:
  • Understand your legal responsibilities
  • Learn how to prevent the little accidents that could lead to big injuries
  • Obtain practical steps to put safety into practice in your work space to create a healthy working environment
  • Obtain easy to follow worked examples of how to comply with your legal responsibilities
Workshop Programme:
  • What do I need to know about health and safety at work?
  • Awareness of health and safety principles that apply to small businesses
  • Stop the pain and prevent accidents
  • 5 simple steps to complying with health and safety laws
  • What your first aid box says about you!
  • Mind your back!
  • Top 10 pointers to keep you smiling whilst sitting at your desk
  • Don't let your workplace make you sick!
  • How to save money by putting safety first

You will leave the workshop with practical health and safety ideas, with examples that you will be able to use straight away to begin complying with safety legislation.

Duration: One day workshop

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