‘Practical and Sustainable HSE Support for your business, no matter how big or small’
Irrespective of business size or complexity, it is necessary to ensure your Health, Safety and environmental management systems, processes and procedures are still valid for your business, are operating effectively and are up to date with current legislation. SCM can assist you to do this with a wide range of support services and frequencies to suit your individual business need.
SCM have the ability to support your business strategically and operationally at all levels in your organization. SCM can offer a full PDCA approach, identifying gaps and needs, developing and deploying improvement plans, supporting on implementation including retraining employees and leadership as necessary, to final review and handover.
Having experience of integration of Health, Safety, Environmental and wellbeing matters with a lean approach, we will ensure what we do engages all employees, is practical, and most importantly proactive and sustainable.
Management Systems Reviews
We can conduct a detailed review of your Management system, including working policies and procedures to enable you to understand your current level of compliance against. We will produce a report that will highlight potential opportunities for improvement, and discuss any recommendations, enabling you to put in place a plan of corrective measures that suit you.
Legal Compliance Audits
A compliance audit can ensure compliance with all current legislation related to health and safety at work. We will review applicable legislation for your specific business. Current guidance recommends this is carried out at least annually.
Process and Procedure Audits
Audits can be undertaken on specific processes and procedures in your business for example: Risk assessments, emergency and fire evacuation, accident reporting and management and issue and control of Personal Protective equipment (PPE). The audit will be designed not only to test your current process or procedure, but help you with any improvements that could benefit you.
Policies and Procedures
Policies and procedures are designed to influence and determine all major decisions and actions, and all activities take place within the boundaries set by them. Procedures are the specific methods employed to express policies in action in day-to-day operations of an organisation. We can write, review and revise any Policies and Procedures that are needed in order to operate your business successfully.
Risk Management
Risk management is the process of identifying risk, assessing risk, and taking steps to reduce risk to an acceptable level. The risk management approach determines the processes, techniques, tools, and team roles and responsibilities for a specific activity, process or project. Risk assessments allow you to calculate the risks in your workplace, put sensible measures in place to control them, and make sure they stay controlled. We can help you implement a robust risk management approach, write, review or revise any risk assessments that you are required to have in place.
Workplace inspections
We can visit your business on a regular basis to conduct a general “walk through” review. This will give you a “snapshot” of the current status following a checklist of general compliance indicators.
Tool box talks
Toolbox Talks are a series of short talks which can be given to a workforce, with the objective of providing continuing training to the workers, and hopefully, reducing the accident / incident rate and occurrences of ill health in the workforce. No matter how long a person has been doing his job, continued training is essential to remind them of the safety issues faced daily. We can write and if required deliver the toolbox talks.
Incident and Accident Investigation
Assistance can be given in any incident or accident investigations or supporting response to local authority or enforcement improvement notices. This may be particularly supportive when dealing with more serious or complex issues and where local authorities or regulators may be involved. A particular strength of SCM is our ability to solve complex problems, analyse both practically and culturally, determining accurate route causes and associated improvement activities.
Machinery Safety Assessment
We can offer support to businesses in the assessment of current status, identify areas for improvement and provide support with practical solutions to mitigate or improve. Levels of assessment can be from a basic review of equipment requirements, through to more comprehensive assessments carried out in accordance with recognized international standards ISO 13849:2015 (Part 1 and 2)
Fire Safety Management
SCM can support you in the preparation of a fire safety management plan to support you in the design, management, planning and co-ordination of appropriate fire safety procedures to reduce the risks of fire and to ensure the safety of building occupants. A complete fire management system ensures legal compliance and protection of lives and assets
Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Planning
Written plans should be in place to ensure that a business can react appropriately to any eventuality that may put people, the environment or business activity at risk. SCM can assist with EM preparedness planning, processes and procedures to ensure immediate reaction and action is taken to mitigate loss, and assist with deeper BCP review considering wider implications of disruption and formulating a robust BCP plan for the business to operate with if needed.
