Health and Safety for Facilities Management

Requirements for health and safety in facilities management can be diverse. Whether you are responsible for overall health and safety for different locations of an organisation, or whether you are renting out commercial property, the UK government expects you to be aware of, and comply with, the detailed rules and regulations that it lays down.

It is then your responsibility to ensure that this is done whether the facility concerned involves office space, manufacturing, premises open to the public or any other usage. Knowing how to handle one kind of facility can be a challenge; knowing how to ensure that health and safety is correctly applied in ten different kinds of facility can sometimes seem impossible.

As a facilities manager or commercial property landlord, you may have a team of employees working for you to oversee your business property in a number of ways. They may be working to maintain the properties, to manage incidents and report back to the owner. Each building will have to be assessed for risk to determine the health and safety plan that is required.

The challenge is then to take into account the opinions of several different people, each of whom may be working to different standards, in order to really know where you stand and what you need to do.

Yet it’s worth having a clear understanding of your position in health and safety in facilities management, because of its positive effect on your operations. Knowing what your risks are, and being able to decrease them in the eyes of your insurance company, allows you to also reduce your insurance premiums. If you can do this across the span of different locations and establishments, your savings can be significant.

ProActive Health & Safety consultants are specialised in a number of different sectors. When you work with our consultants, you get the benefit of a team of experts that can cover all the different aspects of your facilities – and yet work strictly to the same standards. At ProActive Health & Safety, we’ve pioneered many of the aspects of the health and safety “virtual team”.

This is a team that adapts itself in terms of time, budget and priorities to what you need, when you need it. We make available our different experts on an “as needed” basis. And whenever they are working in the team, they are also using our standard, expert reporting procedures so that you get consistent and professional feedback all the way through.

Cost-effectiveness is high on our list of priorities too. We ensure that your facilities are properly equipped in terms of health and safety, but we also work with you to optimise your investment. Working as a virtual team and having consultants who know their jobs like the back of their hand means that our work for you is effective from day one.

There is no wasted time in trying to recruit, train or deploy more in-house members of staff. When you work with ProActive Health and Safety, we are on the job for you immediately.

We’ll audit, assess, plan and implement health and safety for you. We’ll work hand in hand with your staff to make sure that everything goes smoothly, we’ll train them as required and we can even “train the trainers” so that our expert approach gets transferred into your day-to-day operations. And while we’re doing that, we’ll be completing all the paperwork and making sure that health and safety inspections get passed with “satisfactory” or better.

The budgetary advantages follow from this. Investing in your health and safety when you need to, hiring our consultants for check-ups, and particular issues or incidents, keeps a cap on your expenses. You only pay for the time for which our expert consultants are engaged. And there is no impact on your headcount at the end of the day.

If you’ve been wondering how you’ll manage health and safety for locations, which may be spread over the whole of the country, then phone us on 0161 935 8282. By speaking to one of our consultants or virtual health and safety team leaders, you can start doing today what you kept trying to put off to tomorrow.