Inspections, Audits & Surveys Services

Are you gambling with the lives of your employees, taking a chance on the wheel of fate, or just pushing your luck when it comes to health, safety and welfare.

Talk about health and safety for long enough and someone will eventually tell you it’s all just ‘common sense’. If that’s the case perhaps we should ask the question why;

2.1 million people are suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
2056 people died of mesothelioma (2006), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases.

229 workers were killed at work, (2007/8 HS figures) a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
136 771 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 517.9 per 100 000 employees.
299 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 1000 per 100 000 workers.

34 million days were lost overall (1.4 days per worker), 28 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.

The majority of these people work/worked for companies that have gambled. That is not to say that they had not allocated time and money in trying to comply with UK health and safety legislation, but a large proportion, if not all, took a chance.

The CHANCE that systems they provided, worked and were not just paper work exercises. The CHANCE that if all else failed, COMMON SENSE would prevail.

Sitesafe UK Ltd offer a range of training and safety services which are aimed at reducing the risk of worker injury and ill health. The monitoring services of safety inspections, audits and surveys which help to confirm the systems you provide are affective.

Auditing your organisation’s safety performance is a ‘COMMON SENSE’ approach to health and safety, site inspections increase your ‘ODDS, of identifying trends before they result in injury or ill health, surveys establish the facts and with that valuable piece of information you remove the ‘GAMBLE’ involved in an educated guess.

Some inspections are of course a requirement under legislation they need to be done at specific intervals and record specific information and action taken.

Sitesafe UK Ltd offers a wide range of safety audit, inspection and survey services.

Don’t take a chance, call us today on 0844 980 9860 to discuss your requirements

Safety audits
A Health and Safety Audit enables your company to check your existing commitment to heath and safety is working and will identify what if anything you are doing wrong and whether you are in breach of a specific legal requirement. The Lord Cullen report stated; “Monitoring and auditing the safety process is a critical activity to ensure that any safety program is being followed”.

Our comprehensive Health and Safety Audit involves an initial critical evaluation of a company's existing system for managing health and safety. We review the structure and methods of operation and survey the workplace to identify hazards, unsafe acts or conditions and non-compliance with Acts, Regulations and Approved codes of practice.

We prepare a confidential report on the findings with advice and guidance on actions to be taken to bring the company in line with health and safety legislation and good industry practice.

Site inspections
Accidents at work are most common in the construction industry and consequently the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) focus a lot of their energy upon this sector.

Sitesafe UK Ltd specialise in helping its clients win more contracts. Our site inspection service helps to provide evidence of a safety culture within the company, identifying safety issues, but also recording compliance with site rules and safety legislation.

Small organisations can rarely afford a full time health and safety officer to get involved in detailed legislative requirements and so this service can be added to our assistance packages or purchased on an as required basis.

Outsourcing this health and safety function is a cost effective way to stay within the law and become known by your clients as a low risk company.

Site inspections culminate in a hand written report left on site with your representative so that immediate remedial action can be taken as necessary and a typed version of the report sent to the company responsible person within 48 hrs.

Safety tours
Safety tours are another form of inspection. The safety tour is used by a number of our clients in conjunction with their trade union representation. Our advisors tour a working area with the nominated group, which can be managers, supervisors, safety reps or a mix, help to identify any source of concern or improvements required.

Scaffold inspections
Regulation 12 of the Work at Height Regulations requires work equipment to be inspected after installation or assembly, and any work equipment exposed to conditions causing deterioration liable to result in dangerous situations is inspected at suitable intervals (but there is no given frequency) and each time that exceptional circumstances liable to jeopardise the safety of the work equipment has occurred.

The only defined frequency is given as "in the case of a mobile working platform" must be inspected at frequencies not more than 7 days.

Sitesafe UK Ltd offer various services to ensure our clients can comply with this requirement, from a scaffold inspection service, Scaf-Tagging arrangements, ladder inspections, scaffold appreciation courses and scaffold inspector training.

Racking inspections
The requirement to regularly inspect items of storage equipment is defined in various health and safety legislation and guidance notes. Our advisors carry out rack inspections to ensure the product and installations comply with the SEMA code.

However, they all have many years experience working with mechanical handling equipment and can identify the potential cause of damage and bad operating practice to help our clients eliminate any reoccurrence.

Our rack inspections are carried out by qualified personnel, who look for:

Structural defects
Damage to uprights
Overloading
Correct installation

If you are unclear on your legal obligation or want to discuss how this inspection service can benefit your operation, contact our safety department on 0844 980 9860 or use our quick contact form.

Noise surveys
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005.
As a guide, there is likely to be noise risk that needs managing wherever you have to raise your voice or have difficulty being heard clearly by someone about two metres away.

As far as peak noise levels are concerned, the lower exposure action value is likely to be exceeded wherever there are noises due to impacts or explosive sources.

Our noise surveys comply with this legislation and includes the measurement of the equivalent continuous sound pressure level (A-weighted Leq) and the highest sound pressure level (C-weighted true peak). The Leq is also measured by means of personal sound level meters (Dosimeters), worn by the employee.

A frequency analysis of the various noise spectra is undertaken and, most important of all, from this the daily average exposure rate of your various employees is calculated. Further actions depend on whether the lower or upper exposure values are exceeded.

We submit a report, listing these measurements, including the print-outs of the Dosimeters, advice on who is at risk, which areas should be ear protection zones, which employees are recommended to wear ear protection and which type of protection this should be.

Asbestos surveys
Sitesafe UK Ltd is an independent company providing a, friendly and professional asbestos survey service, allowing organisations to comply with current legislation requirements.

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 came into force on 13 November 2006 (Asbestos Regulations - SI 2006/2739).

These Regulations bring together the three previous sets of Regulations covering the prohibition of asbestos, the control of asbestos at work and asbestos licensing.

The Asbestos Regulations cover the ‘duty to manage’ asbestos in non-domestic premises by owners and managers etc. Landlords also have a Duty of Care to ensure that asbestos is managed in their properties, especially in communal areas.

There are 3 types of survey that can be carried out by our teams, depending on the requirement.

Type 1 Basic location and assessment asbestos survey which will give a general indication if there are any asbestos materials within the property. No samples are taken to determine whether materials are or are not asbestos so presumptions are therefore necessary.
Type 2 Standard sampling, identification and assessment survey. Small samples of all materials that are likely to contain asbestos are taken in a non- destructive manner from all reasonably accessible areas. Samples are sent to accredited scientific laboratories for testing and they produce a report on the asbestos content of the samples.
Type 3 Full access, sampling and identification survey that will include intrusion into sealed voids, under floors, in ducts and enclosed spaces and all other more inaccessible areas. This type of survey is recommended before building works take place or demolition operations.

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