Health & Safety Advice and Guidance
MIT Health, Safety & Environment’s approach is built on a passion for making a difference, helping employers to create working environments where people care about themselves and the health, welfare and safety of their colleagues. Our experience has shown us that this develops a feeling of a great place to work leading to not only a safer place, but a more productive environment.
We can work alongside or within your organisation to help you embed your positive safety culture encouraging employees to work together. Our range of health and safety consultancy services is designed to be tailored to help organisations realise these benefits.
We are committed to making a positive impact on workplace safety and changing people’s attitudes towards how they work, creating a positive impact on their environment.
We work with clients to develop policies, procedures and documentation, identifying gaps in existing health and safety processes as well as provide, and develop comprehensive safety management solutions.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide risk assessment, consultancy and health and safety training courses to fit your requirements, enabling a positive culture of change a make a real difference in workplace health and safety.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment’s services are flexible and tailored to meet your needs, including a full health and safety risk assessment of your premises to identify general hazards or specific risk assessments for individual people, activities or equipment including:
There is a compelling business case for effective Health and Safety Management across all areas of your business, apart from the regulatory and ethical issues there are proven sound economic and commercial reasons for providing improvements to the overall quality of the work environment and especially for reducing work related accidents, ill health and damage to business property or vehicles, all of which can affect productivity.
The need for an effective Health and Safety Management System has been emphasized by the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007, specifically in the way its activities are managed or organised.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can undertake and audit of your current Health and Safety Management System to help you identify potential gaps where you may be at risk and provide practical solutions for effective management.
The process of having such an audit or review undertaken, can also demonstrate that you are managing health and safety within your organisation.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can also undertake adhoc audits, inspections and reviews during non-daylight hours of operation to ensure that your procedures are being complied with when staff numbers are generally reduced.
Occupational health and Safety should aim at the promotion and maintenance of the physical, mental and social well-being of staff, the prevention of ill-health caused by working conditions or work risks, and providing an environment adapted to the physiological and psychological capabilities and needs of staff.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can work with organisations to promote and enhance a culture of care using these key components to plan and establish an Occupational Health and Safety Management System. The system can be provided against best practice or a bespoke system which meets your risk profile.
We pride ourselves in offering a flexible approach to ensure that we can meet your expectations whether the system is developed by ourselves or we provide training for your staff to develop the system on your behalf.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment provide a range of services to help you manage health and safety effectively within a construction environment.
There are many questions about accidents, Risk Assessments, Method Statements, Health and Safety policy, training and employee inductions which can all seem like too much work to get that contract, MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide you with the right help can make the process much easier.
We can also carry-out a formal review of your current health and safety management system which identifies your current position and what may be needed for your application.
We can help and support you through the application process, providing you with any missing documents, policies and procedures, method statements that you may require to ensure you have everything required in the correct format before it is submitted for evaluation, this can save you both time and money.
As an employer, owner, landlord or occupier of business or other non-domestic premises, you’re responsible for fire safety, which is an essential legal responsibility. Its potential impact means that it’s an important risk which should be effectively managed.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide all the services you need to fulfil your obligations under the principal legislation namely the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment provides a range of DSE assessment services, delivered through a variety of different methods depending on your requirements. We provide you clear practical advice to make your workstation safe, comfortable and productive.
These services are available as single options or through a tailored delivery model.
During the assessment training and guidance is provided on areas of risk and actions to take to manage these risks and resolve any issues that are identified.
The employee’s line manager is provided with a completed assessment and action plan to equip them with tools and guidance for assisting their employees and managing their DSE needs.
These short workshops are an excellent way to deliver “suitable and sufficient training” as part of a effective Health & Safety Management System.
Your health and safety policy should clearly state who does what, when and how, it should be clear and concise and not over complicated. It should be relevant to your business and give focus to how you will manage your health and safety risks.
Your health and safety management system should be the framework of how you will manage your risks.
Our consultants have over 10 years’ experience of developing and improving health and safety policies, and safety management systems for clients ranging from SME’s to large corporate organisations.
Once established it is important that senior management review the system at agreed intervals, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.
Senior Management reviews identify opportunities for improvement and help others understand the health and safety risks within their organisation, and future resource provisions that may need to be made available.
Our consultants have over 10 years’ experience in advising organisations on occupational health and safety management systems.
We believe that we have the right skills and competence to assist organisations to undertake management reviews.
The duty to manage covers all non-domestic premises, including all industrial, commercial or public buildings such as factories, warehouses, offices, shops, hospitals and schools and common areas of purpose-built flats or houses converted into flats.
• Establish whether the premises contains asbestos, and, if so, where it is and what condition it is in. If in doubt, materials must be presumed to contain asbestos
• Undertake an assessment of the risk that asbestos or materials to contain asbestos poses
• Develop and implement a plan to manage that risk and act on it
Staff and Contractors must co-operate with the duty holder, identified as the person or organisation that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non-domestic premises. MIT Health, Safety & Environment can assist you in understanding your responsibilities, develop a strategic plan for managing asbestos in your business, and help you execute the plan so that you have peace of mind whilst protecting your business, its reputation, your customers, your people and the public.
If you are unsure as to whether you are the 'duty holder' please seek advice.
We can work alongside or within your organisation to help you embed your positive safety culture encouraging employees to work together. Our range of health and safety consultancy services is designed to be tailored to help organisations realise these benefits.
Occupational Health & Safety Management
Our professional approach to Health and Safety management produces many business benefits, over and above a safer place to work.We are committed to making a positive impact on workplace safety and changing people’s attitudes towards how they work, creating a positive impact on their environment.
We work with clients to develop policies, procedures and documentation, identifying gaps in existing health and safety processes as well as provide, and develop comprehensive safety management solutions.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide risk assessment, consultancy and health and safety training courses to fit your requirements, enabling a positive culture of change a make a real difference in workplace health and safety.
Risk Assessment & Risk Management
Our practical risk assessments identify the potential significant hazards within your workplace; and give you clear realistic and cost-effective advice on how they can be managed effectively, making your workplace safer and more productive while meeting your legal obligations.MIT Health, Safety & Environment’s services are flexible and tailored to meet your needs, including a full health and safety risk assessment of your premises to identify general hazards or specific risk assessments for individual people, activities or equipment including:
- • Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Workstation Assessments
- • Fire Risk Assessments
- • Manual Handling Assessments
- • COSHH
- • New and Expectant Mothers
- • Working at Height
- • Equipment and/or business process assessments
- • Stress
- • Task and Activity Specific Method Statements
- • Construction Site activities Risk Assessments
- • Documented Risk Registers to assist with priorities
Health & Safety Audit and Reviews
Auditing is a structured process used for verifying the efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of an organisation’s occupational health, safety and environmental management system, regardless of its size.There is a compelling business case for effective Health and Safety Management across all areas of your business, apart from the regulatory and ethical issues there are proven sound economic and commercial reasons for providing improvements to the overall quality of the work environment and especially for reducing work related accidents, ill health and damage to business property or vehicles, all of which can affect productivity.
The need for an effective Health and Safety Management System has been emphasized by the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007, specifically in the way its activities are managed or organised.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can undertake and audit of your current Health and Safety Management System to help you identify potential gaps where you may be at risk and provide practical solutions for effective management.
The process of having such an audit or review undertaken, can also demonstrate that you are managing health and safety within your organisation.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can also undertake adhoc audits, inspections and reviews during non-daylight hours of operation to ensure that your procedures are being complied with when staff numbers are generally reduced.
Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems
Our consultants have over 10 years’ experience in developing occupational health and safety management systems for a range of clients from SME’s to large organisations.Occupational health and Safety should aim at the promotion and maintenance of the physical, mental and social well-being of staff, the prevention of ill-health caused by working conditions or work risks, and providing an environment adapted to the physiological and psychological capabilities and needs of staff.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can work with organisations to promote and enhance a culture of care using these key components to plan and establish an Occupational Health and Safety Management System. The system can be provided against best practice or a bespoke system which meets your risk profile.
We pride ourselves in offering a flexible approach to ensure that we can meet your expectations whether the system is developed by ourselves or we provide training for your staff to develop the system on your behalf.
Construction Safety Management
Health and Safety within a construction site environment can be difficult to assess without adequate guidance and interpretation of health and safety regulations.MIT Health, Safety & Environment provide a range of services to help you manage health and safety effectively within a construction environment.
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Our range of services includes:
- • Construction Site Health and Safety Audits
- • CDM Co-ordinator
- • CDM Training for duty holders
- • Disability Discrimination Act Access Audits
- • Pre-Occupation Inspections
Contractor Accreditation Schemes
Applying for contractor accreditation can be a daunting task, or maybe you simply can't find the time to go through the application yourself.There are many questions about accidents, Risk Assessments, Method Statements, Health and Safety policy, training and employee inductions which can all seem like too much work to get that contract, MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide you with the right help can make the process much easier.
We can also carry-out a formal review of your current health and safety management system which identifies your current position and what may be needed for your application.
We can help and support you through the application process, providing you with any missing documents, policies and procedures, method statements that you may require to ensure you have everything required in the correct format before it is submitted for evaluation, this can save you both time and money.
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Assistance is available with:
- • The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS)
- • SafeContractor
- • Constructionline
Fire Safety
Fire can be catastrophic for a business in causing harm to employees, customers and the community, damage to premises, loss of stock and materials and interruption to trading.As an employer, owner, landlord or occupier of business or other non-domestic premises, you’re responsible for fire safety, which is an essential legal responsibility. Its potential impact means that it’s an important risk which should be effectively managed.
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide all the services you need to fulfil your obligations under the principal legislation namely the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety Order) and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
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Our services include:
- • Fire risk assessments
- • Training for staff in how to prevent fires and what to do if there is a fire
- • Training for fire wardens/marshal’s
- • Fire safety management
- • Fire strategy
- • Disabled persons evacuation review
Display Screen Assessment Services
Risk assessments for Display Screen Equipment (DSE) users are a legal requirement, as is user training.MIT Health, Safety & Environment provides a range of DSE assessment services, delivered through a variety of different methods depending on your requirements. We provide you clear practical advice to make your workstation safe, comfortable and productive.
These services are available as single options or through a tailored delivery model.
Self-Assessments
We can provide simple instructions which are provided with each self-assessment, to enable users to identify potential issues and make necessary changes themselves, to ensure they are comfortable and seated correctly.Personal Assessment
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide company-wide programmes and one-off individual assessments. These take the form of simple structured assessments that are completed during a short interview between an assessor and employee carried out using the telephone, via video conferencing or through an onsite visit.During the assessment training and guidance is provided on areas of risk and actions to take to manage these risks and resolve any issues that are identified.
The employee’s line manager is provided with a completed assessment and action plan to equip them with tools and guidance for assisting their employees and managing their DSE needs.
Online Assessments
Online DSE assessment systems offer a simple and effective way of gaining compliance whilst maintaining control of costs. MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide guidance on a range of computer based assessment and e-learning training tools in order to help you select and implement a system suitable to your needs. We can also provide expert support and supplement your online DSE assessment programme.Ergonomic Surgery
From time to time you may find that engagement with DSE users fading and completion rates for assessments is lacking. An ergonomic surgery may be just what you need to reengage your staff, increasing levels of awareness and training. In small groups we can talk through with them the importance of sitting well and provide tips on what they can do to their workstations to help reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.These short workshops are an excellent way to deliver “suitable and sufficient training” as part of a effective Health & Safety Management System.
In-house Assessment
MIT Health, Safety & Environment can provide training to a number of your employees to become DSE assessors within your own company. We can provide them with the tools and knowledge to undertake and manage DSE assessment programmes for your employees.Policy Development & Gap Analysis
MIT Health, Safety & Environment recognises that everyone from time to time may need some additional help. We can help you develop your health and safety policy and individual management system to demonstrate to employees and others, your commitment to a healthy and safe working environment.Your health and safety policy should clearly state who does what, when and how, it should be clear and concise and not over complicated. It should be relevant to your business and give focus to how you will manage your health and safety risks.
Your health and safety management system should be the framework of how you will manage your risks.
Our consultants have over 10 years’ experience of developing and improving health and safety policies, and safety management systems for clients ranging from SME’s to large corporate organisations.
Management Review
Both the IOD and HSE have identified that strong leadership involvement in health and safety matters is vital in establishing a high performing occupational health and safety management system.Once established it is important that senior management review the system at agreed intervals, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.
Senior Management reviews identify opportunities for improvement and help others understand the health and safety risks within their organisation, and future resource provisions that may need to be made available.
Our consultants have over 10 years’ experience in advising organisations on occupational health and safety management systems.
We believe that we have the right skills and competence to assist organisations to undertake management reviews.
Asbestos Management
Companies have a legal responsibility to manage the risks from asbestos and ensure they don’t impact on their staff, customers or the public.The duty to manage covers all non-domestic premises, including all industrial, commercial or public buildings such as factories, warehouses, offices, shops, hospitals and schools and common areas of purpose-built flats or houses converted into flats.
- There are three main essential steps that duty holders must undertake when managing asbestos:
Staff and Contractors must co-operate with the duty holder, identified as the person or organisation that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non-domestic premises. MIT Health, Safety & Environment can assist you in understanding your responsibilities, develop a strategic plan for managing asbestos in your business, and help you execute the plan so that you have peace of mind whilst protecting your business, its reputation, your customers, your people and the public.
If you are unsure as to whether you are the 'duty holder' please seek advice.