Health & Safety Essentials
Effective health and safety management is crucial to protecting your small business, its employees and, in some cases, its customers. Are you aware of what you need to have in place to be health and safety compliant?
Join our free webinar, exclusively for Cooperatives UK members, to learn more about the essentials of health and safety management for employers and the benefits available to you through WorkNest as a part of your membership.
16 October, 11.00 am - 12.00 pm
As an employer, it’s your duty to ensure health and safety measures are in place to protect your employees and anyone else visiting your premises.
According to the Labour Force Survey by the Office of National Statistics, 561,000 working people sustained an injury at work in 2022/23, highlighting how important it is for businesses to get health and safety right.
Hosted by WorkNest’s Regional Health and Safety Manager, Derek Hillier, this informative one-hour session will cover the essential components of health and safety management for small businesses to help you understand and execute your responsibilities effectively.
What's on the agenda?
- Who are WorkNest? Get an introduction to WorkNest and discover the support available to you as a part of your Cooperatives UK membership.
- Why manage health and safety? Understand the moral, legal and financial reasons for managing health and safety within your small business. Plus, discover the difference between criminal versus civil law and the powers of the regulator.
- Health and safety management: Discover the Plan, Do, Check, Act model and how this approach can be used to deliver effective safety management. Plus, what makes a good health and safety policy, and why do you need one?
- Introduction to risk assessments: Learn how to assess health and safety risks, including identifying hazards, evaluating them, and recording the findings.
- Leadership checklist: Find out what questions all business owners should ask themselves to check and improve their compliance, covering policies, health and safety standards and how to act on the findings.
Have a question for our host?
If you have a specific query on any of the above topics in relation to your business that you would like our hosts to answer, submit it when signing up using the form – we’ll address as many as we can at the end of the session.
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IOSH Managing Safely
Keen to help managers and supervisors understand their health and safety responsibilities and how they can influence, control and monitor risk to improve issues in the workplace?
Our IOSH Managing Safely course results in formal IOSH certification and gives delegates the skills to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues and anyone else affected by their organisation’s activities.
Webinar review
“Having attended a few WorkNest webinars, I am always impressed with the no-nonsense, well-balanced guidance they provide. Their advice gives me confidence to deal with situations that may arise in an appropriate way and the fact that they follow up with answers to all the questions posed during the webinar is an added bonus.”
Mary Greig, Scaled Solutions
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Protecting organisations and achieving results
Owing to our unrivalled support and expertise, we’re consistently high achievers when it comes to protecting organisations and achieving results.
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More employment lawyers
Across our non-SRA and SRA entities, we have over three times as many qualified employment lawyers than any of our larger competitors, guaranteeing the best possible advice.
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Reduced claims risk
Our Employment Law clients are nearly four times less likely to face a Tribunal claim compared to the national average, and almost twice as likely to successfully defend one.
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Qualified consultants
All of our Health & Safety specialists are IOSH qualified (or equivalent), mainly Chartered or Graduate, ensuring they possess the skills and expertise to support you effectively.
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Years of experience
Together, our experts have over 1,500 years’ collective experience of supporting organisations with their compliance, so you can be sure you’re in safe hands.
Who we work with
Proud to support over 40,000 UK employers
Our clients range from small businesses with fewer than 50 staff at a single location, through to large household names employing thousands of people at multiple sites across the UK. Whatever your size or sector, we have solutions to suit your needs.
