For companies looking for the complete package, we can provide a competent Health, Safety and Environmental service to help manage your HSE Management System. The competent person we use to provide this service will be a Chartered Health and Safety Professional.
If you are looking for help relating to a specific topic, below are some of the in house skills we can support your organisation with and provide expertise.
Organisational Change
The Health and Safety Executive have identified Organisational Factors as one of their top ten topics in relation to Human factors in the workplace.
Human factors are environmental, organisational and job factors as well as human and individual characteristics which influence behaviour at work and can affect health and safety. The topics have proven to be the key issues based on research, consultation with industry and intermediaries, and inspection experience.
We can support any organisational changes you plan by providing a clear process that identifies all the key components in making a successful change and not increasing HSE risk in managing your business. Not only can we develop the process to fit your organisation, we will leave you with a process that you can use for future changes without having to necessarily use consultants to support you. The process will also be comprehensive and stand up to audit by any interested stakeholders or regulators.
Competency Management
Training and Competence is another top ten topic in relation to Human Factors in the workplace. Competence is important and can be defined as the ability to undertake responsibilities and perform activities to a recognised standard on a regular basis. It is a combination of skills, experience and knowledge. Many major incidents have had a lack of competency as a contributory cause. We can help you develop a bespoke competency assurance plan specific to your organisation and sector that will not only provide assurance that your staff have the correct competencies, it will also identify gaps in competencies and direct a training plan to close these gaps. This will ensure training programmes are good value for the organisation and personnel are completing training that is important and relevant to their job roles and developmental requirements.
Contractor Management
Staffing which includes contractors is another top ten topic. Many organisations spend a lot of time, effort and money on ensuring their staff are competent to deliver all the activities expected of them in their job description. Many organisations go a step further and include behavioural competencies in staff profiles. However, they then import significant risk to the organisation when employing contractors and sub-contractors. Occasionally not even aware that work had been sub-contracted by the main contractor.
We can help you develop a contractor assurance plan specific to your organisation and sector that will provide assurance that your contractors have the right competencies from a management system perspective and assurance that the contractors individual competencies are acceptable to work in your organisation.
Other Top Ten Key Topics
1. Organisational Change
2. Training and Competence
3. Staffing, including contractors
4. Organisational Culture
5. Managing Human Failures
6. Procedures
7. Safety Critical Communications
8. Human Factors in Design
9. Fatigue and Shiftwork
10. Maintenance, Inspection and Testing
Other HSE Management System activities we can support you with are;
1. Incident Investigation
2. Emergency Management
3. Assurance / Legislative Audits and General Audits
Anything not listed, please just contact us to discuss. If we don’t have the expertise to help you with your problem we will definitely be able to put you in touch with somebody that can help.