Consultancy Services

Essentially a professional health and safety training company Kawns can also provide a comprehensive health and safety consultancy service for businesses throughout the UK. These services will be non-production stopping, be professional and will provide a comprehensive audit of the safety of workplace.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require that all employers, no matter what size of company they run, have a health and safety policy. That they must provide a safe place to work and be responsible for their employees or visitors with regards to occupational health and welfare. It is mandatory under this legislation that employers appoint an advisor(s) to help with this undertaking. We at Kawns are more than able to help in providing health and safety management services.

We will provide the following services

An initial risk assessment and report writing will be included in the initial membership fee. Upon payment of annual fees other services such as future assessments, training package, accident prevention & investigations, safety policy documents & statements writing, attendance at safety committee meetings, out of hour’s advice line are all provided at reasonable cost, well below our normal fees. Other services such as health and safety consultancy can be tailored to your specific industry

Clients are invited to join a membership scheme where all services will be provided at a highly competitive annual rate. Membership to the Kawns Safety group cost a one off initial joining fee of £300 + vat and thereafter £250 + vat annually.

Consultancy services include

Our normal consultancy fees are £200 + vat per day

Special pricing for Health and Safety training.

Keeping your documentation or practices up to date when legislation or your business changes.

On-going access to Health and Safety assistance either face to face or via the telephone or email.

Provision of vital health and safety documentation for tendering, insurance or financing purposes.

Feedback on the health & safety performance of your organisation.

Work on your behalf in the event of a prohibition.

Helping you to liaise with the enforcing authorities.

Service level Agreement’s:

We offer different levels of our Health & Safety Consultancy Service depending on the size and type of your business and your precise requirements.
The following audit/consultancy services can be used in isolation, or pieced together into a package tailored to meet your needs.

Assessment of existing Health & Safety procedures and documentation.

Creation of tailor-made Health & Safety policy documents and procedures.

Risk assessments, including general risk, COSHH, fire risk and any risks specific to your business.

Health and Safety audits.

Setting of health and safety objectives and the subsequent planning and prioritising required meeting them.

Production of Health & Safety handbooks and responsibility folders helping your employees to be aware of their safety responsibilities.

We will provide you any level of help and information in the following areas

• Accident Investigation
• Behavioural Safety
• COSHH
• Course Accreditation
• Developing Procedures and Documentation
• Display Screen Equipment
• Emergency Planning
• Fire Risk Assessments
• Gas, Dust and Vapour monitoring
• Handling of People
• Health and Safety Policy Review
• Health and Safety Review
• Inspections and Surveys
• Lone Working
• Management of Contractors
• Management of Fire and Other Emergency Situations
• Managing Occupational Road Risk
• Manual Handling
• Noise/Dust surveys
• Occupational Health Management
• Occupational Safety and Health Course Development Service
• Quality Safety Audits
• Quantitative Environmental Audit
• Recruitment Services
• Retained/Interim Consultant
• Risk Assessment
• Training Needs Analysis
• Violence at Work
• Workplace Safety and Welfare
• Workplace Transport

Accident Investigation and Expert Witness

Kawns defines an accident as an unplanned or uncontrolled (adverse) event that has or could have resulted in injury, damage or loss to an individual or organisation.

Effective accident investigation is not only a moral and legal duty; it also represents sound commercial sense, as identifying and addressing the root causes of accidents guards against future incidents. A thorough investigation of an accident is also a positive visible demonstration of your commitment to safety.

Kawn’s Accident Investigation support service has been designed to help you ensure that a thorough and unbiased investigation takes place that explores all lines of enquiry and results in a prioritised remedial action plan designed to minimise the likelihood of similar accidents happening again.

A Kawns consultant will help you to swiftly identify and assess a wide range of evidence to determine both the immediate and underlying factors as well as the effectiveness of your accident response arrangements. A detailed report will be produced that describes the accident causes and includes a comprehensive and prioritised action plan.

Subsequent to your receipt of the investigation report and adoption of a remedial action plan, Kawn’s consultant can, if required, support its systematic implementation as well as verifying by audit that objectives have been met.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Consultancy Services

These consultancy services are designed to assist organisations to:

Review and enhance their arrangements for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

Review current COSHH risk assessments and facilitate COSHH risk assessments for additional substances, or additional ways of using substances.
Review and enhance organisational arrangements for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

The Kawns consultant will carry out a comprehensive audit that will consider:

• The procedural arrangements for the management of COSHH against current best practice
• The degree to which these standards are achieved in practice.

A full and comprehensive report will be produced that will describe the current situation and include a draft action plan of how current arrangements can be enhanced.

Subsequent to receipt of the audit report and adoption of a remedial action plan, Kawn’s consultant can, if required, support its systematic implementation as well as verifying by audit that objectives have been met.

Review current COSHH risk assessments and facilitate COSHH risk assessments for additional substances, or additional ways of using substances.

The Kawns consultant will work with you to review the content and quality of current COSHH risk assessments in order to ensure that they provide a suitable and sufficient evaluation that covers the use of substances, the degree of potential exposure and the appropriateness of necessary risk control measures.

The consultant will also facilitate the carrying out of suitable and sufficient risk assessments that cover the use of additional substances or additional ways of using substances.
The consultant will then provide the client with records of the assessment in order to facilitate future reviews and to aid communication of hazards, level of risk and established control measures associated with the substance use.

Fire Risk Assessment

New fire laws place an increasing emphasis on your legal duty to carry out formal fire risk assessments. The Fire Brigade will soon have the power to revoke fire safety certificates, and in the event of a serious fire incident, prosecution proceedings could be brought against those found to have carried out an insufficient Fire Risk Assessment-particularly if Fire Rescue personnel are injured while attending an incident.

Kawn’s Fire Risk Assessment service has been designed with the advice of a senior fire professional specifically to help you comply with these new laws, whilst also prioritising areas for future attention.

A Kawns consultant will assess a broad range of risk factors including sources of ignition, means of escape, warning systems, and risk to personnel. Using a numeric rating scale and ' traffic light system' combined with qualitative review, the Kawns consultant will be able to make clear, even to busy management, the significance of any risks found. During consultation with the client, an initial action plan can also be developed to facilitate change if needed.

Kawn’s Fire Risk Assessment offers a highly flexible approach as users of the service can add further risk factors to the assessment where they may apply. Some buildings for example might have more difficult means of escape from fire than others, meaning that more specific risk factors must be reviewed in this area.

Inspections and Surveys

Our consultants are experienced in carrying out workplace inspections to assess conditions and compliance with legal and best practice requirements. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations place many requirements on employers to maintain a healthy and safe workplace, and Kawns consultants can assess, monitor and report on compliance with these regulations, and others, and produce a detailed report with recommendations for improvement where appropriate. The aim is to provide clients with common sense suggestions as to how they can better protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees.

One variant on the above service is the experience that Kawns consultants have in carrying out risk and liability surveys for insurance purposes. Such surveys can be carried out on behalf of insurance companies, or directly for client companies to assist them in obtaining and optimising their insurance cover.

Risk Assessment

The need to carry out suitable and sufficient risk assessments of activities and workplaces lies at the heart of most modern legislation. For example you need to risk assess the following areas

Management

Manual Handling

Workplace

Workplace equipment

Fire

Hazardous Substances

Noise

Dust

Vibration

Failure to do so not only compromises safety at a fundamental level, but opens the employer up to prosecution and civil action should an accident occur.

Kawns consultants can assist organisations in complying with their legal requirement, working with your employees to produce detailed and suitable risk assessments that can then be used to improve workplace conditions, working methods and training, amongst other issues. The Kawns consultant acts as an external expert; advising on the risk assessment process and suitable risk controls, utilising the knowledge and experience of those carrying out the work or otherwise using the workplace.

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