Health & Safety Services
A health and safety system specifically designed to meet the needs of your company would be compiled by our consultants. Our health and safety services would include the following:
- Health and safety policy
- Health and safety management structure
- Risk assessments
- COSHH Data base
- Procedure for the safe handling of substances
- Safe working practices for machinery
- Health and safety monitoring forms
- Procedures for the correct use and assessment of personal protective equipiment
- Visitors rules
- Contractors rules
- Health and Hygene
- Housekeeping
- Safe use of display screen equipment
- Policy for the reporting of accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences
- Procedures in the event of fire
- Manual handling good practices
- Disposal of waste guidelines
- Advice on safety committees and nominated safety representatives
Monitoring for the control and prevention of:
- Work related upper limb disorder
- Hand arm vibration syndrome
- Method statements
- Consultancy visits
Our Consultants would complete your Health & Safety System after undertaking a thorough safety audit of the company’s premises. A safety meeting would then be held with Management to assess the needs of the business to ensure you comply with all necessary legislation.
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is a landmark in law. For the first time, Companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care.
The Act, which came into force on 6 April 2008, clarifies the criminal liabilities of companies including large organisations where serious failures in the management of health and safety result in a fatality.
* The Ministry of Justice leads on the Act and more information is available on its Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 Web page .
HSE welcomes and supports the Act. Although the new offence is not part of health and safety law, it will introduce an important new element in the corporate management of health and safety.
Prosecutions will be of the corporate body and not individuals, but the liability of directors, board members or other individuals under health and safety law or general criminal law, will be unaffected. And the corporate body itself and individuals can still be prosecuted for separate health and safety offences.
The Act also largely removes the Crown immunity that applied to the previous common law corporate manslaughter offence. This is welcome, and consistent with Government and HSE policy to secure the eventual removal of Crown immunity for health and safety offences. The Act provides a number of specific exemptions that cover public policy decisions and the exercise of core public functions.
Companies and organisations should keep their health and safety management systems under review, in particular, the way in which their activities are managed and organised by senior management. The Institute of Directors and HSE have published guidance for directors on their responsibilities for health and safety entitled ‘Leading health and safety at work: leadership actions for directors and board members’.
MBT Consultancy’s Health and Safety Systems will enable you to easily and simply comply with all of the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and supporting legislation.
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