About Workplace Risk Assessments
All businesses are required by law to carry out health and safety risk assessments, to record significant findings, and identify these to their staff. The Management regulations require employers to examine what could cause harm to people from their work or workplace, and to identify whether enough precautions have been taken to reduce the risks to an acceptable level.
It makes good business sense to approach your risk assessments in as broad a way as possible and consider all risks (e.g. environmental and health & safety). A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business, as well as complying with the law. It helps you focus on the risks that really matter in your workplace – the ones with the potential to cause real harm.
The law does not expect you to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives and affect your business too if output is lost,machinery is damaged, insurance costs increase or you have to go to court. The law does however require you to ensure that your assessments are suitable and sufficient.
You are legally required to assess the risks in your workplace so that you put in place a plan to control the risks. One element of achieving this is that the assessors must have an understanding of what the law requires, in order to determine what are satisfactory precautions.
Results you should expect
All workplaces from Construction to Offices need to be assessed to determine if there are appropriate risk control measures in place. These risk controls should both reduce the risks to your staff and any other persons who may be affected by your working and should also help your organisation to achieve legislative health and safety compliance.
Therefore you need to have the confidence that your controls are both effective and compliant and that staff your business is protecting people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’.
Working with MESH you can be fully assured that the Workplace risk assessments produced will identify the necessary protective controls to prevent harm to staff and others while ensuring full compliance with the wide range of health and safety regulations that you need to comply with. Working with MESH will ensure your assessments are suitable and sufficient in line with the legislative requirements.
MESH Consultants have used our extensive experience in Workplace risk assessments to ensure peace of mind for clients in a wide range of industries throughout the UK. Where specific technical assessments are required such as with COSHH or DSEAR MESH Consultants can also assist you business.
Featured Case Study
Client: South African Airways
Sector: Aviation
Just a quick note to say how impressed we were with your services. We’ve found the exercise to be invaluable, especially the advice going forward.
Tim Atkinson
Airport Manager London Heathrow
MESH was employed by South African Airways to undertake a series of risk assessments covering its main activities at Heathrow airport. This included covering the assessment of activities in, around and under the plane when loading and unloading.
Other key areas covered included check in, flight departures and flight connections. These assessments were undertaken to fit around the key SAA operational times and required a great deal of flexibility in working times from MESH.
The assessments were supported by a full report and action plan which was subsequently discussed with management.
Your Options
MESH can offer a range of Workplace risk assessment options to organisations throughout the UK:
1. We undertake a full series of Workplace risk assessments of your operations at a single or multiple sites throughout the UK.
2. We undertake Workplace risk assessments for specific operations within your organisation.
3. We can train an individual or a team of risk assessors in your business to undertake Workplace risk assessment and provide support to ensure the assessments meet the suitable and sufficient criteria required by the HSE.
What we provide is legislative Workplace risk assessment compliance, which is a fundamental requirement placeds upon all businesses not matter what industry type.
Costs
Costs of Workplace risk assessments vary depending on the type and size of organisations, the number of processes and the variations in tasks that need to be assessed.
As a guideline, fees for work recently undertaken have ranged from as little as £495 to £4,025 to develop the required level of compliance for individual organisations needs.
We believe our pricing is very competitive but we don't compromise on quality and you can be assured that our assessments will prove to be a benefit to your business. We would expect you to shop around for quotations but would encourage you to check what level of service is being provided. Ask yourself whether you getting an assessment that will make a long-term difference to the health and safety of your staff and your business. If in any doubt, please do contact us without obligation.
Where we work
MESH carry out Workplace risk assessments for companies in a diverse range of industries throughout the UK.
Our Head Office is in Kent, with regional offices located in London, The Home Counties, The Midlands, and The North East.
