Health and Safety for Offices and Corporate

Of all the business sectors when it comes to health and safety, companies are often lulled into a false sense of security when it comes to offices and corporate environments. After all, is there any safer environment than an office with desks, chairs, carpet and a coffee machine? And yet the number of accidents happening in such “safe” surroundings can be staggering.

Often, part of this is due to the risks inherent in office and corporate settings, and part is due to the lack of time and attention from busy office and department managers who just don’t have enough hours in their working day to handle all the issues that come up.

One of the leading risks in offices and corporate headquarters is fire. Office buildings are often multi-storey; a concentration of staff in an office block with computers, photocopies, stores and other machinery can increase the chance of injury in the event of fire or similar accidents. While we all like to think it can never happen to us, we can only be at ease if proper risk management has been done to avoid such accidents and to limit their effect if they happen.

On the other hand, better health and safety in office and corporate environments also has a positive effect on your staff. Seeing clear indications on how to promote safer working conditions and avoid unnecessary accidents sets the standard for your employees’ behaviour as well. When they see the importance of taking care and proactively moving to a better way of working, not only will you see accidents in the office go down, but you’ll also see office productivity go up.

Instead of working days lost because of back injuries from lifting a water cooler container the wrong way, or carpal tunnel syndrome or eye strain from incorrect use of computer keyboards and screens, you’ll have employees who are more available, less stressed and better suited to the business tasks and responsibilities that you give them. It’s a solution that is better than just “claiming on the insurance”.

In fact, it’s better by an order of magnitude. The insurance may compensate you for the salary to be paid for a day lost, but it’s unlikely to replace any collateral loss of output, reduction in work accomplished or sales that aren’t made.

ProActive Health & Safety can provide you with consultants who are experts in health and safety in office and corporate environments. Not only do our teams have detailed knowledge of the rules and regulations that need to be applied, but they also have a wealth of experience in applying this in the most productive and beneficial way possible for your company.

Now your office managers can confidently get on with their work of managing employees, making schedules, creating reports, and driving other projects to successful conclusion, while our consultants work in the background to attend to the crucial health and safety aspects. We bring you one of the most important benefits of all. It’s the benefit of time. By efficiently and non-obtrusively handling health and safety for you, we give back to you and your personnel those precious hours that you would otherwise have spent trying to get it all under control.

Working with your departments and managers, ProActive Health & Safety consultants will be present on site to audit, plan, implement and monitor the health and safety program that’s right for you. We’ll train your managers and their teams to show them what not to do, and also to show them how simple actions can make their working day better for them and for the people they deal with.

Among the different items that we will manage for you are risk assessment and planning, re-evaluation of insurance levels that can help reduce the premiums that you pay, fire risk, evacuation procedures, DSE risk, manual handling risk and training, expectant mothers risk assessments, disablement access audits, premises risk assessments, and electrical PAT testing.  Our consultants are trained to make sure not only the building is sound for employees to work in, but that they are also trained in the risk management procedures for all of the above.
 
Whether you have been thinking about possible office or corporate risks or you just haven’t had the time to get to work on it, you can save yourself both time and effort by phoning us on 0161 935 8282. Right away, we’ll be able to give you an initial appraisal of what needs to be done to avoid risk, and how it can be done to maximise the benefit to both your employees and your company.