Health & Safety
David Venus Health & Safety has a significant portfolio of clients who benefit from our specialist skills and experience in health and safety matters. Our legal knowledge, specialist training, and over 15 years' experience, coupled with a practical approach, mean we are well placed to carry out risk assessments and to prepare and review health and safety policies for all types of companies and business.
Every business has a legal responsibility to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of its employees and anyone else who may be affected by the business and its activities.
Employees must be provided with safe conditions and systems of work, and appropriate training and supervision on health and safety matters.
In addition, all employers are required to:
- Conduct an assessment of risks throughout their premises as a whole
- Carry out work activity and workstation risk assessments
- Carry out fire safety risk assessments and implement and maintain a fire management plan
- Have written documentation in place to demonstrate that proper risk assessments have been carried out and, where identified, appropriate action has been taken to minimise risk of any injury
- Where the business employs more than 5 people it must have, and regularly review, a written statement of its health and safety policy.
As well as addressing their legal responsibilities, many employers recognise that the adoption of high standards for health and safety can lead to other benefits including lower insurance premiums, improved productivity and quality of work, improved morale, fewer staff absences, lower staff turnover, and the avoidance of reputational damage caused by the imposition of fines.
David Venus Health & Safety is engaged by many businesses to help them make sure they have addressed their health and safety responsibilities and can demonstrate this through their records and practices.
We assist companies by guiding them through the complexities of health and safety legislation to make sure they stay up to date, comply with the law, and take account of best practice.
The advice and support David Venus Health & Safety provides is geared towards the size of the business and its specific requirements.
In particular, we assist clients by:
- Carrying out and recording independent health, safety, and fire risk assessments
- Conducting detailed workstation and work activity risk assessments
- Providing comprehensive risk assessment recommendation reports
- Preparing, reviewing, and updating health and safety policies
- Providing employee information packs for areas of particular concern, for example computer workstations and manual handling
- Providing advice and training to help in dealing with routine health and safety issues in-house
- Providing 'ad hoc' advice on particular matters as required
- Keeping clients up to date with changes in health and safety law and best practice
- Explaining how health and safety issues should be addressed at board level.
Our involvement in the process, along with the documents and records we provide, helps clients demonstrate that health and safety matters are being addressed and monitored on an ongoing basis.
