FREE member benefit
Health & Safety Advisory Service
The Health & Safety Advisory Service is a new benefit of Textile Services Association (TSA) membership.
As a TSA member, you can take advantage of free confidential advice from leading Health & Safety specialists WorkNest.
WorkNest enjoys a strong industry reputation for the quality of support provided to specialist service organisations. Its Health & Safety Consultants are professionally qualified, sector-experienced and have an acute understanding of the compliance challenges present within the specialist service business environment. This means that whenever you pick up the phone for advice on risk management, you are speaking to somebody who not only understands the intricacies of health and safety law but who has your best interests and business needs in mind.
Preferential rates on WorkNest services for TSA members.
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Health & Safety Advisory Service
Get sensible, proportionate and practical advice on essential areas of health and safety compliance, including:
- Risk assessing your environment
- Your health and safety policy and procedures
- Asbestos and Legionella
- Manual handling
- Slips, trips and falls
- Violence and aggression
- Lone working
- Fire
- Statutory inspections (gas, fixed wiring, fire prevention, etc.)
- Ongoing COVID-related risk management
Advisory Service: 01244 667021
To receive support over email, please contact tsahs@worknest.com
Open between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday
How it works
You can access support over the phone or via email.
- The telephone service is available on 01244 667021 and is open between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday.
- To receive support over email, please contact tsahs@worknest.com
When calling or emailing, please quote TSA, your name and the name of your business. While all calls, case notes and correspondence are recorded to ensure quality and for monitoring purposes, please be assured that all information is confidential and stored securely in compliance with data protection regulations.
Not sure whether to call?
WorkNest are here to support you through all health and safety matters and encourage you to contact them with any problem, large or small. By seeking advice at an early stage, they will be in a better position to help you remedy any potential risks and safeguard your business against accidents, incidents and regulatory scrutiny.
Health & Safety Knowledge Hub resources
Health & Safety COVID Support
Business across the UK are naturally concerned about the ongoing pandemic and what it means for them.
With the situation evolving daily, WorkNest’s Coronavirus Advice Hub is designed to offer a single source of regularly updated guidance so that you can take decisive action, minimise disruption, and keep people safe.
You will need to register to access this service. TSA members can access the Hub completely free of charge.
Please be assured that all data and information is confidential and stored securely in compliance with data protection regulations.
For more COVID-related guidance, you can access support over the phone or via email.
- Telephone 01244 667021 – open between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday.
- Email tsahs@worknest.com
Preferential rates available on WorkNest services for TSA members
Health & Safety One2One Service
If you require more hands-on help with your health and safety responsibilities, WorkNest’s Health & Safety One2One service gives you access to unlimited personalised support from named professionals at a highly preferential fixed fee.
To find out more about our Health & Safety One2One support and the preferential rates available to your business, call 01244 667021 or email enquiries@worknest.com and quote the TSA.
What’s included
With Health & Safety One2One, you can ensure the wellbeing of your employees and customers, achieve compliance with relevant regulations and operate with complete peace of mind. You will benefit from:
WorkNest will act as one of your legally required competent persons. You will be assigned a highly qualified, DBS-checked,
field-based Health & Safety Consultant who will visit your premises and serve as your main point of contact. This close relationship enables WorkNest to act as one of your competent persons, something all employers must appoint to help them meet the requirements of health and safety law.A tailored health and safety policy and handbook. If you employ five or more people, you are legally required to prepare a written policy outlining your health and safety arrangements and share it with your employees, usually in the form of a health and safety handbook. We’ll handle both of these requirements for you.
Health and safety audits, with flexibility as you evolve. During our first visit, we will conduct a General Risk Assessment (GRA) to identify any areas of non-compliance. After our GRA visit, we will provide you with a detailed written report and a prioritised action plan to address any issues. We’ll help you resolve these issues and offer ongoing advice and support for key actions and challenges.
Real-time Risk Management Software. This platform allows you to: View the status of all of your results and improvement actions, see who is responsible for each action, which remain open and which have been closed, have complete control and visibility of where you are up to in your health and safety journey and watch your overall safety score improve as you progress through the actions and use the software to proactively manage your day-to-day needs.
Helpdesk support. You will have access to a dedicated team of qualified, office-based Health & Safety Advisors who are on hand to provide unlimited telephone and email support during the working day.
Incident support and out of hours emergency assistance. We will be there to help mitigate damage, guide you and support you. Additionally, we offer an out-of-hours emergency helpline available 24/7 for urgent assistance, should you need it.
Assured Health & Safety advice you can trust
WorkNest is the first Health & Safety Consultancy in the UK to achieve assured advice status from an enforcing authority, known as a Primary Authority. This means its advice can be used with confidence across all sites within your organisation, providing a consistent approach to health and safety compliance.
