Health Safety consultant Kent London area, if you are looking for a health and safety consultant in the Kent and London area we can help. We are a practicable and cost effective health and safety consultant service, and provide health and safety training courses in the Kent and London area.

Health and safety consultant services are often not understood, so we have put together a few questions and answers that we feel might help you when choosing your health and safety consultant.

Question

Do I have to have a health and safety policy even if I only run a small office?

Answer

Only if you have five or more employees, but we recommend that you have a health and safety policy regardless of size as this helps protect your company and indivduals.

Question

I have been told by other health and safety consultants that I have to have safety inspections in my offices on a weekly basis as a minimum legal requirement. Is this true?

Answer

You have been told false information, there is no set intervals for health and safety inspections in the offfice environment. You should decide the frequency of inspections based on your own risk assessment of the health and safety risk.

Question

Why should I not take a risk and not invest in safety, then I can save my money?

Answer

Most companies that do not invest in health and safety end up paying for their mistakes, and are often losing money due to a uncontrolled work environment. In simply terms its like driving your car but never replacing your tires when they are worn, in the end they will fail and maybe result in a major incident. "So be warned do not take the risk" 

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Do fire risk assesments need to be carried out on all work premises or is it only manufacturing units?

Answer

In October 2006 the fire regulations within the United Kingdom changed. This now places a legal duty to complete a fire risk assemment on all commercial premises and places of work, regardless of size.

See also the following usefully european website for health and safety information which contains all the latest europan health and safety issues.

We hope the above helps, and please visit our site again as we will be adding more  information and health and safety downloads to help you maintain a healthy and safe workplace.