Health & Safety Support for Large Organisations

Advice Line

Feel you would benefit from an extra layer of specialist Health & Safety support on an ongoing basis? Ellis Whittam can provide unlimited advice and guidance to your in-house health and safety department or, if you prefer, direct to your management teams.

Whether you have a particularly complex query or just need an expert second opinion, you will be assigned a highly-qualified lead consultant who will act as your go-to point of contact for all health and safety matters. Plus, if you operate across multiple sites, we will assign local consultants to support you in each location, whose work will be overseen by your lead consultant to ensure consistency in approach.

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Behavioural Safety Programme

Feel that you’ve exhausted all opportunities to reduce risk through conventional means?

With 95% of accidents having an element of unsafe behaviour attached to them, it makes sense to turn your attention to promoting safe and compliant behaviours in the workplace.

Our safety specialists can help you to explore this approach and improve your organisation’s safety culture by working with you to develop and implement a behaviour-based safety programme.

Crisis Management/Emergency Response

In the event of a catastrophic health and safety incident in the workplace, it is imperative that the situation is properly managed and the organisation protects its interests. 

As well as ongoing support to help you proactively prevent these distressing situations, we offer 24/7 emergency response – in the form of pragmatic advice and legal regulatory support – to assist you in managing the immediate aftermath of a serious incident in the workplace.

Defended Mock Trial

Interactive, informative and impactful, our Mock Trial training events are an incredibly powerful way of delivering the health and safety message and reminding people of their responsibilities.

Delivered exclusively to your organisation, we can work with you to develop a scenario around a serious safety incident in the workplace that is played out in a ‘court of law’.

This provides a valuable opportunity to experience and participate in realistic Crown Court proceedings and gain first-hand insight into how a company is prosecuted for breaches of health and safety law, highlighting the pitfalls which could result in a prosecution and conviction and how to avoid them.

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e-Learning

As an employer, you have a legal obligation to provide employees with information, instruction and training to help them undertake their duties safely. If you struggle to find time to train large groups of employees, e-Learning is the perfect solution.


A convenient and powerful alternative to classroom-based training, e-Learning enables employees to complete courses anytime, anywhere. That way, you can train staff in essential health and safety topics, such as Accident Reporting, Fire Safety and COVID-19, without the need for whole departments to down tools.


Incorporating videos and interactive testing for maximum impact, e-Learning can be an effective way to reduce accidents, demonstrate your commitment to employee wellbeing, and improve your claims defensibility.


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Gap Analysis

Keen to understand how you’re currently performing so that you can identify shortcomings and determine how best to achieve your goals?

Our experienced team can deliver a Health & Safety Gap Analysis, also known as a Safety Compliance Audit, to help you continually improve standards across your organisation.

Utilising different templates and question sets that examine key areas (HSG65, ISO 45001), we can help to ensure you have the right management systems and programs in place to reduce incidents and risk to your workers, and if not, build a roadmap to get you where you need to be.

We can also conduct remote audits that don’t require us to visit you on site.

Incident Investigation and Claims Defensibility

Serious accidents will attract regulatory attention and may invite claims from the injured person. It’s not uncommon for large organisations to experience high levels of unmeritorious civil claims and, in our experience, trying to defend these claims is often compromised by poor investigation reports, which can do more harm than good.

Ellis Whittam can help to protect your organisation against claims culture and strengthen your position in these scenarios by:

• Offering experienced incident management support;
• Delivering investigation training and claims defensibility training;
• Installing civil risk management systems; and
• Providing independent Legal Expenses Insurance.

Policies and Handbooks

It’s good practice to review your Health & Safety Policy annually to check it remains relevant and captures any changes to your work environment and the law. Our safety specialists can conduct an independent review to determine the adequacy and effectiveness of this essential document so that it is fit for new starters, potential clients, investors, stakeholders, insurance companies and the regulator.


What’s more, having created a policy, we can help you to fulfil your obligation to inform and instruct by preparing an employee handbook which extracts all the key information people need to know in order to work safely.



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MyH&S Software

Our award-winning software, MyH&S, will revolutionise your approach to risk management and compliance by replacing your health and safety intranet and document management system with a suite of apps that can be used to manage all aspects of your safety management system.

How do you know that audits/site checks are being done and that they are compliant? And, if they’re not, is there an action plan in place that is visible anywhere at any time?

MyH&S gives you and your health and safety management team 24/7 monitoring capabilities, including multi-site visibility and real-time data on site checks, audit actions and registry items, as well as the ability to build audit question sets that examine specific areas of the business beyond what’s captured in a GRA.

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Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is the foundation of an effective safety management system, yet many risk assessors have not been taught the basic principles of how to conduct a risk assessment and what the law expects. This can result in an inaccurate estimation of risk, which may lead to certain control measures being recommended that are not necessary or, worse, control measures that are not identified or implemented. 

We can work with you to develop specific risk assessments and can also put together a risk assessors training package to support internal competence.

Safety Culture/Climate Survey

As well as lowering accident rates, creating a positive safety culture is proven to deliver improved productivity through a workforce that is engaged, motivated and committed.

Created by our team of highly-qualified consultants, our Health & Safety Climate Survey is an online tool designed to uncover employees’ attitudes and perceptions to workplace health and safety and provide you with an objective measure of your health and safety culture – is it proactive or reactive? Positive or apathetic?

This serves as a great starting point for any organisation looking to delve deeper into ‘the way things are done’ and bring about positive change.

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Training

The most successful companies take a top-down approach to safety, understanding that strong leadership and management commitment is directly related to safety performance.

We are accredited to deliver IOSH for Senior Executives and Directors, a thought-provoking one-day course for business owners or those with senior management and director-level responsibility.

And, because safety is everyone’s responsibility, we also deliver IOSH Managing Safely and IOSH Working Safety to help raise awareness of workplace risks and encourage people to place their personal safety and that of their colleagues at the centre of their jobs.

We can also develop bespoke courses to suit your specific training needs.

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