SafeWise are health and safety consultants working with small and medium sized businesses in Birmingham and across the West Midlands. We act as your competent person, write and maintain your health and safety policies, can assist with risk assessments and inspect your premises and sites, and can take you through the accreditations your customers ask for. We have been doing it since 2012.
What Does a Health and Safety Consultant Actually Do?
Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every employer to appoint one or more competent persons to help them meet their health and safety duties. You can appoint someone inside the business or bring in outside help. For most Birmingham SMEs a full time safety manager costs significantly more than the risk justifies, so an external advisor is usually the sensible answer.
What Your Health and Safety Cover Includes:
- A named advisor you can call as often as you need to
- Your health and safety policy written, reviewed and kept current
- Risk assessments and method statements suited to the work you actually do
- Safety inspections of offices, sites, factories and industrial units
- Fire risk assessments for your premises
- Interim audits of your management systems and documentation
- Free safety legislation sessions for your directors, managers and supervisors
- Advice on which training your people are required to hold, plus the courses to get them there
Accreditation and Getting on Tender Lists
Gainining an accreditation is often the thing standing between a business and a tender list. We prepare the documentation and the evidence for CHAS, SMAS, Safecontractor, Constructionline, CQMS and Altius, and deal with the assessor's questions when they come back. Find out more on our safety accreditation support.
Training for Birmingham Employers
Your advisor can provide guidance on the required health and safety training for your business. Members get free safety legislation training for directors, managers and supervisors, and beyond that we run classroom courses and an online training platform.
When Birmingham Businesses Tend to Call Us
Usually it is one of four things. Your client requires you to provide evidence or documentation you cannot produce. An accreditation is coming up for renewal. Someone has been hurt, or very nearly was. Or the business has grown to the point where whoever was doing health and safety in their spare time cannot keep up with it. Any of those is a good moment to pick up the phone.
Health and safety cover is sold as a membership, on its own or combined with HR. If you need people support as well, have a look at our HR membership.
Trusted by businesses across Birmingham and the West Midlands.
More About Us
Your Own Named Advisor:
You deal with the same person every time, not whoever picks up. Unlimited support is part of the membership.
Competent Person Cover:
We take on the competent person duty that Regulation 7 places on you, for a fraction of what an in-house appointment costs.
Written for You, Not Pulled Off a Shelf:
Your policies, risk assessments and plans are built around the work your business actually does.
No Spreadsheets:
Your documents, assessments and training records sit on one platform you can log into, rather than in a folder nobody can find.