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Health and safety Audits and Inspections
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We assess the extent to which you comply with the relevant health and safety regulations.
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We review your organisation, health and safety policies, arrangements and management system.
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Our audits cover an extensive range of safety issues.
For an initial status report, please refer to our health and safety checklist.
Following on from the audit, our health and safety inspection covers:
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Thorough premises inspection.
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Health and safety status overview.
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Advice and guidance on compliance with the regulations.
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Comprehensive written report addressing every health and safety aspect with recommendations for action.
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Cost includes site visit from specialist consultant plus all administration and disbursements.
Click here to view a list of areas covered by our audits.
Health and Safety Documentation
Datasound will create and/or update all documentation specific to your organisation. This will include:
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Health and safety policy documentation
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Health and safety arrangements, procedures and plan
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Review of risk assessments
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Assistance with corporate safety planning
Special attention is given to the Health and Safety Manual, which is inclusive of your organisation’s risk assessment analysis, policies and procedures. This should include:
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Statement of intent.
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Organisational responsibility details.
Health and safety arrangements (policies and supporting forms).
Display Screen Equipment - DSE Workstation Assessments
We address the legal requirement to carry out risk assessments for all computer workstations.
1. Trained Assessor
A qualified MSS Health and Safety Health and Safety Assessor will complete a detailed assessment of each workstation in conjunction with the user. Summary spreadsheet included.
2. User Self Assessment
DSE users carry out a self assessment. MSS Health and Safety Health and Safety will analyse the findings in a summary spreadsheet.
3. User Software Self-Assessment
This computerised system allows the user to complete his/her own training and assessment.
DSE Film
Our Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Assessor training film looks at the hazards of working with computers, gives advice on good working practices, advises on how to assess a workstation and highlights products which are designed to address user concerns and difficulties.
Risk Assessments
At MSS Health and Safety we:
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Train your personnel to carry out specific Risk Assessments.
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Advise and assist to ensure that all Risk Assessments have been undertaken and properly recorded.
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Work with you to complete them.
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Provide practical advice.
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Complete results analysis of all Risk Assessments.
Regular risk assessments combined with an effective management system can help prevent slips, trips and falls in the workplace. MSS Health and Safety can help implement a suitable policy for dealing with slips, trips and falls, which are a major cause of injury at work.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 requires all organisations to examine what in their work could cause harm to people and whether they have taken adequate safeguards. The Regulations also state that the assessment of the risks must be either "adequate" or "suitable and sufficient".
All employers are:
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Responsible for assessing the risks and seeing that it is adequately done.
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Required to review the assessments and revise them as necessary when there are suspicions that "they no longer valid or there has been a significant change".
Disability Discrimination Audit
Our initial disability access and facilities audit is a major step towards meeting the requirements of the Act.
- Full premises evaluation
- Assess level of compliance with Disability Discrimination Act
- Advice and recommendations for further action
The main objectives of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 are to:
- End the discrimination that confronts many disabled people
- Provide access to employment opportunities and everyday services that others take for granted
You need to assess current levels of accessability and then prepare a business plan containing policies and procedures that consider the needs of the disabled. This should cover:
- Areas used in the emergency evacuation of buildings
- Access to and facilities within the building. e.g. ramps, doorways etc
- The provision of suitable information for the disabled
