Health and safety is essentially based on carrying out risk assessments to find out what the hazards are for a particular task. Once these hazards are found then control measures must be put into place
This is highlighted in Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and it is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that suitable and sufficient risk assessments are carried out by a competent person.
As you can imagine this list of risk assessments could become quite substantial so outsourcing it might well be a favourable option freeing up your time to run your business.
Following the completion of general risk assessments further task specific ones may be needed such as:-
➤ Control of Substances Hazardous to Health - COSHH
➤ Display Screen Equipment - DSE
➤ Manual Handling
➤ Lone Working
➤ Young Persons
➤ New and Expectant mothers
We at CSATS are able to undertake these assessments for you on your behalf (but utilizing knowledge and experience from within your workforce and from yourself) or in partnership with someone from within your company. Anyone carrying out risk assessments should be deemed to be competent by the company.
If you so decide we can also help you with instigating any control measures found to be required after a risk assessment has been carried out thus again minimising your workload.
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CSATS Ensuring Safety AT Work
