Health and Safety Audits and Inspections
As an employer, ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for your employees is crucial. However, with ever-changing regulations and complex requirements, it can be a challenge to stay updated and identify all potential hazards in your workplace.
At Lanahan Risk Management Services, we offer comprehensive audits and inspections to make sure your workplace meets all legal requirements and remains safe for your employees.
What is a health and safety inspection?
A health and safety inspection is similar to an audit, except it focuses on how to prevent work related accidents by identifying health and safety hazards.
The main hazards that are checked during a health and safety inspection include slips, trips and fall hazards; although they will also be related to hazards that could occur in your specific work environment.
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Our health and safety audit and inspection procedure
At Lanahan Risk Management Services, our health and safety audits and inspections are designed to collect information on the effectiveness of your safety management system and create an easy to use plan for improvement.
We will identify areas that need attention and develop an action plan with realistic timeframes to ensure legislative compliance.
Our health and safety inspections focus on specific elements of your management system or individual sections, sites, or work processes. We’ll identify common safety hazards and risks and recommend improvements to eliminate or control them, maintaining best practices.
After conducting a detailed audit or inspection, we’ll provide you with a comprehensive report that includes recommendations for necessary remedial action, highlighting high-priority actions that need prompt attention.
These reports serve as a valuable record of proactive development on health and safety issues and assist you in planning and implementing effective remedial actions.
Regulatory requirements of health and safety audits
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the employer is responsible for ensuring the safety of employees in the workplace.
This means as the employer, you must provide:
Having a health and safety audit and inspection conducted can help ensure that these criteria are met.
It’s also worth noting that the law requires specific inspections to be completed annually, such as boiler service checks.
Why should a health and safety audit be conducted?
We cannot overstate the importance of a health and safety audit:
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How often should a health and safety audit be conducted?
There are no specific timelines that are outlined in legislation as to when a health and safety audit should be conducted, however, we always recommend having one at least once a year.
Larger organisations with higher risk factors may need more frequent health and safety audits. For example, factories that use chemicals are more likely to need frequent audits compared to an office building, since the working environment is higher risk.
We also suggest a health and safety audit being conducted after your business undergoes any significant changes, such as:
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