It is a legal requirement for every employer and self-employed person to make an assessment of the health and safety risks arising out of their work (Regulation 3; Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999). You have to formally record the assessment if you have five or more employees.
Other Legislation also requires specific Assessments to be made.
MD Safety Management can undertake detailed Assessments not limited to the following:
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires Employers to undertake "suitable and sufficient" Risk Assessments of their operations to quantify the risk to Employees and other people affected by the operations (such as Employees, Contractors, Visitors, General Public etc.).
MD Safety Management undertakes Risk Assessments by a number of methods including observation, digital recording, interviews and a review of existing documentation.
In producing Risk Assessments MD Safety Management follows the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 5 Steps to Risk Assessment methodology:
Risk Assessments can be generic in their nature or specific to a particular site or operation depending on Client requirements. Increasingly owners (or controllers) of premises require more detailed information and assessments relating to any work undertaken on their sites. This is increasing the burden on our Clients. Therefore, we have also developed a custom-designed template to allow our Clients to create Specific Risk Assessments. This approach allows those hazards specific to a particular site that our Clients are working on to be identified and assessed to ensure that suitable information is presented.
The Risk Assessments will help to:
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires Fire Risk Assessments of premises to be undertaken.
MD Safety Management undertakes detailed Fire Risk Assessments to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the "relevant Statutory provisions" within the meaning of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Assessments involve a premises inspection to include:
The Fire Risk Assessment will:
The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) requires Employers to assess the risks from the use of Hazardous Substances from their operations.
It is important to ensure that Substances used by the Company do not present unacceptable risks to Employees and to identify reasonable methods by which unavoidable exposures can be controlled.
MD Safety Management undertakes COSHH Assessments following the following procedure:
In conjunction with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication EH40 - Workplace Exposure Limits, the MD Safety Management library and each Substance's Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), we review and produces the necessary "suitable and sufficient" Assessments for those Substances used.
Initially MD Safety Management ensures that current copies of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for ALL Substances are obtained. We then liaise with Clients to ensure the creation of an inventory of Hazardous Substances believed to be in use prior to undertaking the Assessments.
The process also includes an assessment of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) currently issued to Employees in an attempt to control levels of risk presented although the first priority is to eliminate the use of Substances where possible or to reduce the volumes used.
The COSHH Assessments will help to:
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require Employers to assess hazardous lifting operations for Employees. These are those activities where Employees are at risk of significant injury from Manual Handling.
We assist Clients in meeting the requirements of the Regulations by undertaking relevant assessments.
We assess the risk of injury to Employees during those moving and handling operations that cannot reasonably be avoided. Recommendations are then given to reduce the risk as far as is reasonably practicable.
MD Safety Management uses the "TILE" principal in approaching the assessment process. This makes an evaluation of the:
The Manual Handling Assessments will:
The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 require Assessments of workstations to be undertaken to ensure that ergonomic and other hazards are not presented to Employees.
MD Safety Management provides a service to:
In undertaking the process, we gather data relating to the workstations, the people using them and the environment in which they are used. This is achieved using a combination of questionnaires, interviews and observation.
The resulting assessments identify any possible solutions to any identified particular problems. This is then presented in a detailed DSE Assessment Report.
Where possible the Assessments are also accompanied by annotated plans of the premises and the workstations.
The DSE Assessments will help to:
We provide a full range of Health and Safety services tailored to our Client’s requirements. With our experience and breadth of knowledge, even if your requirement is not specifically Health and Safety related, we still may be able to help – just get in touch!
