Why do businesses need to do a health and safety audit

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Every business, whatever size, has a legal duty to protect employees, contractors, and visitors under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Health and Safety Executive inspections can happen without warning and fines for any breaches of compliance can be hefty and unexpected.

Even well-managed businesses are often unaware of major compliance gaps and one accident could cost your business everything, so it is a no brainer to protect it, and your employees.

In our free health and safety audit, we will come into your business and review all your health and safety practices to ensure you are compliant. If you’re not, we can work with you on the actions you need to undertake.

We can assist with those actions, or complete a brand new health and safety policy for you. We  can also provide risk assessments, cost assessments, any kind of health and safety documentation and site inspections.

Why Book a Free Health & Safety Audit?

The answer to this is why not? Totally free of charge, it costs you nothing except an hour of your time and a health and safety audit will highlight any potential issues in your workplace long before they become problems.

Not only that but an audits can help you save money because by preventing accidents from happening you can avoid project delays and downtime.

A clean sheet for health and safety can also keep any insurance premiums to a minimum.

You might already have someone in your team who is responsible for health and safety audits across your business, however an external audit would still be recommended to throw fresh eyes on the site and ensure you don’t miss anything that may have been overlooked due to familiarity or lack of awareness.

What is covered in a health and safety audit?

Our free health and safety audits take less than one hour and during that time, our specialist consultants will review your health and safety policies and management arrangements.

Our experts will confirm whether you have a formally appointed Competent Person and undertake a site walk through to check for compliance.

We will check if you’ve got suitable and sufficient risk assessments for fire, COSHH, manual handling, DSE, lone working, etc and review your accident reporting and RIDDOR procedures.

Not only that but our team will also inspect your training records and refresher cycles, check your statutory inspection and maintenance records and provide a clear compliance report and action plan.

Why do we offer free health and safety audits?

A health and safety audit is a great starting point for creating a list of action points for a company to work on.

This genuine compliance check, delivered free of charge, gives your business complete clarity on where you stand.

Too many businesses only call us after something has gone wrong, but we believe that prevention is better than cure and we’d rather help you fix any gaps now, before it’s too late!

Book your free health and safety audit today at https://acornhealthandsafety.co.uk/health-and-safety-compliance-audit/

We can also provide a quote for additional health and safety services, with no obligation to buy.


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