Risk Assessments for Birmingham Businesses

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The law in the UK mandates that all companies with five or more workers must document their risk assessments for all risks. A risk assessment must still be completed by businesses with fewer than five employees, and if you're a business in Birmingham or the surrounding area, we can help.

What is a health and safety risk assessment? A risk assessment for health and safety helps you identify potential hazards at work.

The following two factors warrant routine workplace risk assessments:

1. To ensure the health and safety of all workers and visitors to your site, risk assessments are essential management tools.
2. Any employer is required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations to conduct risk assessments.

A risk assessment should be performed by who?

By law, employers must get health and safety guidance from a qualified individual. This is defined as a someone who possesses sufficient training and experience in recognising dangers and assessing risks.

Here at SHEQ-SOL, we carry all the necessary qualifications to quickly and easily come to your office or factory in the Birmingham area to carry out your employee risk assessments.

We know that businesses can change a lot for risk assessments, or finding a suitable person internally can be tricky as they're too familiar with the workplace environment to undertake a risk assessment with a fresh pair of eyes. So think to yourself:

1. Do they possess any relevant training, such as a course that has been accredited by IOSH?
2. Have they ever managed a workplace health and safety program or worked in the field in real life?
3. Are they equipped with the technical knowledge and abilities needed to solve problems?

Individuals possessing the necessary knowledge, experience, and skills are hard to come by, especially in smaller businesses. What would happen if you don't have enough internal resources to manage health and safety? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) proposes that the appointment of an external expert be substituted without any issues.

On a consultation basis, SHEQ-Sol Ltd offers expert risk assessment services throughout the Birmingham area. This involves making professionals available to you who have experience in a range of industries and who are capable of handling all the required jobs. In this way, we can act as your company's approved "competent person" and provide risk assessments to help you both protect your employees and comply with legal requirements.

Risk evaluation for manual handling

Manual handling is defined as "by hand or bodily force" loading or unloading a load. Specialised manual handling risk evaluations are required by law (Manual Handling Regulations) in the event that manual handling operations cannot be totally eliminated.

What information needs to be put in the risk assessment for manual handling?

1. The task that is being carried out, such twisting, pushing, or pulling.
2. Age, health, strength, etc. of the INDIVIDUAL carrying out the task.
3. The load being moved, which could be anything large, sharp, hot, or heavy.
4. The surroundings in which the work is being done, including any steps, noise, lights, etc.
5. Other relevant factors

You can get professional help from SHEQ-Sol Ltd if you require a movement and handling risk assessment. We can perform manual handling risk assessments for you, or we can assist you in doing them by offering advice. Our risk evaluations for moving and handling ensure that participants understand the importance of lifting and manual handling safety, allowing them to proceed with caution.

Additionally, we provide manual handling training programs throughout Birmingham.

COSHH Risk Assessment

In the United Kingdom, organisations that engage in activities involving the use of hazardous compounds are mandated under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations to perform specified risk assessments. These are:

1. Any material with a label indicating risk or hazard.
2. Contaminants such as Legionella and Weils Disease are biological.
3. Vapors, gases, dust, or fumes.

The COSHH Risk Assessment needs to take into account

1. Whatever hazards the material might pose.
2. To whom the substances might be exposed.
3. What the manufacturer or supplier offers is a safety data sheet.
4. Potential exposure method, such as injection, ingestion, or inhalation.
5. How long the exposure lasted.
6. The degree of any possible harm to one's health and the need for any first aid procedures.
7. The methods utilised to get rid of the materials.
8. Arrangements for storage and any particular needs for fighting fires.

SHEQ-Sol Ltd is able to provide assistance with these evaluations for all types of commercial businesses in Birmingham. Either we can complete the risk assessments on your behalf, or we can assist you in doing the assessments by giving you the appropriate direction.

How a risk assessment for health and safety should be conducted

The following is the five-step process for assessing workplace risks that is outlined in HSE guidance:

1. List every risk that can arise at work.
2. Ascertain which parties—workers, subcontractors, and guests—are vulnerable to the risks. Pregnant mothers, young workers, and new hires are among the employees who are more vulnerable and are taken into consideration.
3. Evaluate the level of risk, the likelihood of mishaps, and the current safety measures.
4. Use an appropriate format to record the results.
5. Do a routine review of the evaluation. When something changes, such when new equipment is installed, or after an accident, this is extremely important.

Alternatively, SHEQ-Sol can take this headache away from you with our qualified risk assessment experts.

Solutions to assist with risk assessments for health and safety

SHEQ-Sol Ltd is a multi-service provider with a specialty in risk assessment related to health and safety. For risk evaluations, these are the two main choices we have:

1. Our team performs risk analysis on your behalf. In this case, we take ownership of the evaluation procedure. It should be noted that not all companies that provide risk assessment services will take this step.
2. You carry out the evaluation on your own, but we support you every step of the way by training your personnel and looking through the completed forms.

To construction and contracting organisations, we can also offer generic risk evaluations and method statements. These may be modified to fit specific tasks, site-specific risk evaluations, and procedures.

Enhanced assistance for health and safety

If your company needs help with risk assessments, you probably need a health and safety policy and handbook. Would you like to find out more about how our annual support contracts can assist you with meeting all of your health and safety requirements?

We would be happy to hear from you, so please fill out the form and contact us as soon as possible.