Health and safety consultancy
Food hygiene consultancy
As well as our accredited training and bespoke training services, Smart Training Solutions provides a range of health and safety consultancy and food hygiene consultancy services to ensure your business meets the requirements of the law.
These include:
- On-site visits for general advice and guidance
- Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) implementation
- Food hygiene and health and safety auditing
- Risk assessments
- Policy and procedure writing
- Testing/surveys
On-site visits for general advice and guidance
Trained consultants can visit you to provide help and guidance for companies wanting to improve their health and safety and food hygiene standards and practices.
We can help you to gain an external accreditation or membership to an external association. Examples include the British Retail Consortium (BRC), or European Food Safety Inspection Service (EFSIS).
Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) implementation
Although many UK food organisations have been using HACCP since the 1960s, it is now a legal requirement that all food businesses establish, implement and maintain food safety management procedures based on HACCP principles. (NB This does not include primary producers such as farmers.) The type of procedure and extent of record keeping will depend on the size and type of business.
- Our experts in food hygiene consultancy can conduct a hazard analysis for you that will include a robust framework for all food products.
- We also consult with management and employees on site in relation to HACCP issues and ensure ongoing monitoring takes place once the system is set up.
Food hygiene and health and safety auditing
We can conduct a full food hygiene or health and safety audit to provide an overview of the current status of your company paper systems, processes, procedures and employee knowledge.
This includes:
- inspection of the premises in order to identify any physical or operational contraventions of legislation or good practice
- full audit of all support documentation – audit reports include executive summary, score sheet and photographs
- giving priority-rated action points, enabling the manager to adopt an appropriate action plan in response to the audit.
Risk assessments
Carrying out risk assessments is an essential part of maintaining safe areas of work and keeping accidents to a minimum. They are also a legal requirement under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Risk assessments both identify risks and implement suitable and sufficient measures to minimum the likelihood of any harm or damage occurring.
Our health and safety consultancy and food hygiene consultancy services cover specialist risk assessment areas, such as:
- Display screen equipment (DSE)
- Noise
- Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)
- Manual handling
- Work equipment
- Fire.
Once your risk assessments are documented, we can help you to review your safe systems of work to ensure they reflect your working practices.
Policy and procedure writing
Smart Training Solutions can improve your policies and procedures in line with your individual business needs by:
- producing new documentation for health and safety or food safety
- reviewing existing policies and procedures
- ensuring that all policy and procedure documentation is fully explained and understood by both managers and employees.
Testing/surveys
Our health and safety consultancy services can include certain industry-standard tests and surveys, as follows:
Portable appliance testing (PAT)
The Electricity at Work Regulations requires electrical testing to be performed by a person who is competent in the safe use of the test equipment and who knows how to interpret the test results obtained. This person must be capable of inspecting the equipment and, where necessary, dismantling it to check the cable connections.
- We will inspect, test and certify all your portable appliances, according to the Institute of Electrical Engineers Code of Practice, and advise on their condition and safety.
- By using computerised testing equipment, we can easily store all the electrical and visual test data, downloading it into a spreadsheet for your convenience.
Noise surveys
We can assist you in:
- Identifying whether you have a noise problem
- Telling you which employees are at risk, and why
- Gaining enough information to let you prioritise and plan the work needed to control the risks
- Informing you on what to do about the immediate risk (eg hearing protection, warning signs)
- Instructing, informing and training your employees about these issues.
Contact us to find out more about our consultancy services.
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