Health & Safety One2One Service
From time to time, you may need extra help with your people and safety responsibilities. Upgrading to our One2One Health & Safety service 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.
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Trust the specialists
WorkNest 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.
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.
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“As the company started to get larger, we knew we had to protect our employees and our contractors both onsite and in the offices. WorkNest is exactly what we needed to move the company forward.”
Joanne Beaver, BeaverFit
To find out more about our Health & Safety One2One support, call 0345 226 8393 or email [email protected] quoting your membership body.