10 reasons why you should get a health and safety audit from Clearwater
Clearwater has over 15 years’ experience of auditing health and safety standards in schools and residential settings. David Harulow, Managing Director and lead auditor explains why a health and safety audit should be part of your plans of 2018.
‘There are many reasons why an effective health and safety audit should be an essential part of your health and safety management system. Our audits will confirm the quality of your policies, procedures, environment and people. In short, the reasons and benefits of a Clearwater audit include the following:
- To identify any potential for injury and ill health, in particular major injury and loss of life.
- To identify any potential breaches in health and safety law, and the consequences.
- To avoid any potential action by regulatory bodies including the Health and Safety Executive, Fire and Rescue Services or the Care Quality Commission.
- To identify civil liability from poor workplace practices.
- To identify potential loss of assets, particularly from fire.
- To protect reputation, both personal and employers’
- To identify any con-compliance with systems and standards.
- To demonstrate to interested parties an effective audit process and completed action plans.
- To demonstrate year on year progress and improved standards following repeat audits.
- Finally providing managers with peace of mind and reassurance that safety is on track.
Our audits can be commissioned as an individual service, they are also included within our annual support packages combined with other services such as training and fire risk assessment.