Preferential rates apply on EW services for Contact Centre Panel members

From time to time, you may need extra help with your people and safety responsibilities. Upgrading to our One2One services gives you access to unlimited personalised support from named professionals at a highly preferential fixed-fee.

What’s included

Our action-based Health & Safety service will help you to ensure the wellbeing of your employees and customers, as well as achieve compliance with relevant regulations. Your business 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.

Specialists in the professional services sector

Ellis Whittam is a leading provider of Health & Safety advice to businesses across 30 different sectors. As such, you can be assured that your dedicated adviser will have in-depth experience and specialist expertise working within professional service settings. We understand that you are operating in a busy and challenging environment; we will support you and relieve some of your legal and compliance burdens so that you can protect your staff, customers and visitors allowing you to focus on delivering your own services.

Assured Health & Safety advice you can trust from Ellis Whittam

Our Health & Safety clients receive advice that has been assured by a local regulator acting as a Primary Authority (PA). This means that our processes, procedures and level of expertise have been reviewed, approved and signed off by Cheshire West and Chester Council to allow us to enter into a ‘co-ordinated partnership’.

Our advice can be used with confidence across your business. Whether you operate from a single site or have premises that span multiple local authorities, a relationship with a PA ensures that other authorities wishing to inspect Ellis Whittam clients will be required to firstly engage with the PA before making contact with you.

We are the first Health & Safety Consultancy in the UK to be approved to provide assured advice, which is testament to our quality of service. All this offers significant benefits to our clients.

Providing you follow our advice, your business should:

Be protected against the risk of enforcement, scrutiny or action from authorities that have different views on what you should be doing to achieve compliance;
Benefit from a strengthened ongoing relationship with both regulators and future interactions with businesses throughout England, Wales and Scotland; and
Be viewed as being ‘in safe hands’ when you join us – both within your business and from those looking in.

Some businesses choose to gain PA status themselves working with a local authority directly. This can be time-consuming and is usually only undertaken by large companies. If you join Ellis Whittam, we’ve already done the hard work for you and you benefit in the same way.

Join us and gain access to a single source of advice that you can immediately trust and implement across your whole business.

Protection against claims and enforcement action

Average fines for health and safety breaches have risen 381% since sentencing guidelines were introduced in 2016 and Fee for Intervention charges could see employers charged £157 an hour if the regulator becomes involved in investigating a breach of health and safety law.

As well as helping you to maintain compliance, our optional FCA-regulated Legal Expenses Insurance covers your legal costs in the event of health and safety prosecution and fees imposed by the enforcing authority.

To find out more about our Health & Safety One2One support, call 0345 226 8393 or email enquiries@worknest.com and quote CCP.

Preferential rates apply on EW services for CCP members

Coronavirus Advice Hub

Businesses across the UK are naturally concerned about the spread of coronavirus and what it means for them.

With the situation evolving daily, our 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.