Case Study: Health and Safety Auditing and Training for a Charity in Sittingbourne, Kent

Client Description

A charity who provide care and support to children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families across Kent, South East London and East Sussex. The charity has a branch in our home town of Sittingbourne in Kent.

Scope of Works

Carry out health and safety audits of their eighteen locations and keep their staff and volunteers trained to current laws and regulations, while keeping costs down for a non-profit.

Solution

This client was given access to the following modules and options on the PYRAMID™ On-line Risk Management System which were made available to all their locations and users…

• Health and Safety
  • Audits
  • Audit Compliance

Keep the health and safety audit costs down by scheduling the audits to take place when our consultants were already in the area.

A health and safety review question set was used to audit the locations. Please find below the modules that the audit covers…

• Car Park/Public Areas
• Delivery Area
• Documentation – Asbestos & Legionella
• Documentation – Contractors, Visitors, Security, Plant & Equipment
• Documentation – Delivery Area
• Documentation – Fire Safety
• Documentation – First Aid
• Documentation – Management Control
• Documentation – Risk Assessments
• Documentation – Roofs
• Documentation – Slips, Trips & Falls
• Fire Safety
• First Aid and Accident Prevention
• General Comments from Auditor
• Ladders
• Machinery, Electricity & Gas
• Main Guest/ Communal Areas
• Manual Handling
• Risk Assessments
• Roof
• Slips, Trips & Falls

Offer a discounted price on our health and safety training courses run at our regional training centre and also at the client’s premises in Sittingbourne, Kent.

The following courses were held for the client to meet required training needs…

• IOSH Managing Safely Course
• Fire Warden Training
• Emergency First Aid at Work

This client received the IOSH Managing Safely Course so their managers would have an understanding of their responsibilities when it comes to health and safety within the charity. The course is designed to bring managers up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.

The fire warden training course is designed to fulfil the statutory requirements of the Regulatory Reform Fire Safety Order (RRFSO) legislation. The course equips fire wardens to provide general fire safety awareness for staff.

The Emergency First Aid at Work courses were required as the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to employees if they are injured or become ill at work.

Results

We were able to keep the costs down for this charity whilst still providing our full professional services.

New volunteers could being trained up to the required standards as and when required.