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Consultancy Services - Introduction

Policy
Organising
Planning and Implementing
Measuring Performance
Reviewing Performance and Auditing

Other Services
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in their guidance document Successful Health and Safety Management (HSG 65) outline a general model of the way in which they see health and safety being managed in the workplace.
The model consists of six management areas.
Policy
Organising
Planning and Implementing
Measuring Performance
Reviewing Performance and
Auditing

Samten Consulting can help in all areas of the management process.
 Consultancy Services - Policy
For most businesses, having a written health and safety policy is a legal requirement. It should indicate the organisation’s commitment to providing a safe and healthy workplace. Providing such a workplace has been shown to improve the morale of the employees working there and thereby increasing their productivity.

The policy also provides a framework for reducing other business losses and it underlines the need for management to take responsibility for accidents and ill-health. It should outline the organisational structure and functions that go into establishing a safety culture in the organisation.
The policy should provide for a structured and systematic approach to assessing risk as part of good business planning and introduce the notion of continuous improvement in performance.

Samten Consulting can help you develop your health and safety policy. If you are already familiar with quality systems we can help you adapt them to health, safety and environmental performance. If not, we can help you and your employees learn how to use quality management tools across all areas of your business.
Consultancy Services - Organising
Organising involves establishing and maintaining management control within the organisation. It requires the promotion of co-operation and communication between individuals, safety representatives, teams and managers so that health and safety becomes a collaborative effort. It must ensure the communication of necessary information throughout the organisation and ensure the competence of employees.

Samten Consulting can help you develop systems for communication and collaboration and in particular, help establish systems for identifying training needs and ensuring the competence of your employees and managers.
Consultancy Services - Planning and Implementing

Key to managing health and safety is ensuring that there is a system in place to identify hazards and eliminate or control them. This system needs to become an integral part of the overall business planning process.

We can help your business develop suitable risk control systems and support your managers who will implement them. We can help by carrying our routine and specialised risk assessments, recommending control measures and monitoring their effectiveness.

We conduct the following risk assessments on your behalf:
General workplace assessments
Display Sceen Equipment (DSE) assessments
Fire risk assessments
Hazardous Substances  assessments (COSHH)
Manual Handling
Emergency planning & Business Continuity
Consultancy Services - Measuring Performance
There are essentially two types of health and safety performance measure. The first is active, which monitors the achievement of plans and compliance with standards. The second is reactive which monitors such things as accidents, incidents and ill-health.

We can help you establish a system that will help you monitor both. We can carry out workplace inspection on your behalf and review your accident and incident data. We can also train you employees to carry out these measures themselves and how to extract important information.
Consultancy Services - Reviewing Performance and Auditing
Organisations are subject to a number of audit processes, financial, quality etc. The same discipline can be applied to health and safety performance. The key point of an audit is to establish where there are inadequacies and establishing plans to help management remedy them.

We can help your business by conducting full health and safety systems reviews and auditing against the BS OHSAS 18001 and the HASMAP methodologies.
Consultancy Services - Other
We also provide access auditing services to help businesses ensure compliance with the requirements of the Disability Descrimination Act.