MESH Consultant - Assessments Services Case Studies

 MESH were approached by BRM to undertake a series of COSHH assessments by the safety team on site. Although the company had excellent controls in place for the safety of its employees as required by the Control of Lead at Work Regulations it did not have all of its COSHH assessments up to date.

We were given the project of working with on site personnel to address this and ensure the site was fully compliant with the requirements of COSHH.

Kinneir Dufort work with some of the world’s largest brands to whom they provide design expertise covering packaging, consumer products, telecommunications and commercial high technology. The company has established a reputation for user understanding, design strategy and creativity. With a comprehensive design development capability that includes high quality prototyping.

As the processes employed by the company include the use of a wide range of hazardous substances they approached MESH in September about carrying out a COSHH review of their operations out of the companies Bristol facility. 

MESH undertook a full review of the chemicals used in the nursing homes and created the COSHH assessments.

MESH carried out COSHH assessments for Advisory Services Kent (part of Kent County Council) in 2009. These assessments covered the office and training facilities based in East Malling Kent. 

Cleveland Potash requested MESH to complete a PUWER review and a series of PUWER assessments across its two sites in the North East in February 2010.

The review and assessments covered 11 workshops across the sites and involved one of our consultants spending three days on site and a further three days to complete the report and assessments for the company.

MESH undertook a review of the engineering workshop to identify where improvements were needed to comply with PUWER.

MESH undertook a PUWER assessment for a large paper company in Kent to review the compliance of its safety systems on a semi-automated paper sheeting machine.

MESH were requested to complete an independent review of the proposed layout and site arrangements at a new production facility in Rye. This review was requested by senior management of Humiseal Europe Limited.

MESH were instructed to carry out this review, and to specifically consider the production of conformal coatings at the site. Background information and plans regarding proposed layout and equipment at the site was provided by Humiseal. 

 An independent survey of the site wide operations at the Meggitt Defence Systems Ltd premises at Orbital Park, Ashford, Kent was undertaken on 3rd December 2009. Meggitt Defence Systems Ltd, is a unit of Meggitt PLC, the global aerospace, defence and sensors group, who are a leading provider of weapon training systems, ammunition handling systems, environmental control systems, and countermeasures. MDS products, services and systems are used to support armed forces and security agencies worldwide.

The company has operated on the current Orbital Park site since 2006 and up to 100 persons are employed on-site.

 MESH was approached by the Operations Director at Victoria Foods, based in Leigh, Lancashire towards the end of 2009. The company produces dry cake mixes, batter mix etc at this site.

Because of the known explosive risks from flour based dusts the company was in need of carrying out a DSEAR assessment on the use of flour from a silo and pipe distribution system into bulk mixers.

MESH was employed by Soho Film Laboratories and Ascent 142 (part of the Ascent Media Group of companies) to review how it handled nitrate film and to determine if sufficient controls were in place to prevent any combustion or explosion of the film. 

MESH was employed by Sarena Manufacturing Ltd in 2009 to assess the DSEAR risk at its manufacturing site in Gillingham, Kent. The company has a proud history of serving the utilities and the building services industry with fibreglass tanks for the storage and distribution of water.

Fragrance Oils Limited needed to determine whether areas of their Manchester plant were DSEAR compliant.  MESH Consultants helped the company understand where they were in relation to this complex set of regulations.

SIMS Claims Service approached MESH in the second half of 2009 to provide a DSE assessment service to staff where a professional ergonomic review was deemed necessary. We have continued to provide support during 2010.

SIMS Claims Services is a claims management service provider to the insurance market and operates out of two office locations, one in Tunbridge Wells and the other in Tonbridge, Kent. 

MESH has worked with Groundsure a Brighton based Environmental consultancy, with around 40 office-based staff working predominately at their computers. to complete DSE assessments.

MESH sourced and project managed the introduction of an on-line DSE training and assessment system for Discovery. We have continued to support Discovery by completing the follow up assessments as necessary.

MESH were asked to complete a series of fire risk assessments to cover the GE Healthcare site in Maidstone, Kent. The site incorporates a wide range of buildings and storage facilities. 

The site was split into seven sections in order to complete suitable assessments for the various buildings and activities housed in each area.

MESH has undertaken a series of fire risk assessments for the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. The college hosts around 1600 students and 300 staff and spreads across a large site, surrounded by residential housing.

MESH has undertaken the fire risk assessment for Discovery at its head office based in Chiswick West London and assisted the company to assess the risk from fire of all its buildings throughout Europe.

MESH responded at short notice to complete a fire risk assessment for a premises in Redditch. The assessment covered a building used for warehousing and office use.

MESH were asked to assist the organisation to complete Stress risk assessments for staff identified at risk by Occupational Health. 

A large office based company in the Docklands area of London asked MESH to undertake a risk assessment on stress amongst a group of its employees. 

MESH was asked to complete a stress assessment on a member of staff working for the National Maritime museum in Greenwich. 

MESH has undertaken a series of site inspections for Emerson Willis across sites in London; as part of these inspections a series of noise assessments have also been completed. 

MESH undertook noise monitoring surveys of the workshops at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication. The noise survey pinpointed where the problems existed and a report was compiled for management, identifying the necessary actions to be taken.

MESH has undertaken a series of noise assessments in 2008 on behalf of BATEC International Ltd, working on the companies drilling rigs and ground probe plant. 

The new EHS manager at GE Healthcare, Maidstone ran a gap analysis on the status of the Risk Assessments on the site.  As he had decided to use an outside consultant to help close the gaps he asked MESH to assist. 

MESH was asked to assist with upgrading the production and engineering based risk assessments for the GE site in Maidstone, Kent at the start of 2010. 

Our consultants worked closely with the GE staff to review the key assessments for these departments and took the lead in the creation of over 200 new assessments.

In 2009 MESH has undertaken a series of risk assessments on behalf of the Charities Aid Foundation, including general workplace, fire and stress assessments.

MESH was asked to undertake workplace risk assessments and COSHH assessments for Advisory Services Kent (part of Kent County Council) in 2009.