Your Own Retained Competent Person.

Regulation 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (Health and Safety Assistance) requires the employer to have access to competent assistance to fulfil their health and safety responsibilities.

Whether you are a very small (1 – 5), small, medium or large company you must have this access to competent advice.

Very SMALL company – BIG Health and Safety Responsibilities

If you are a very small company, and you are tendering for a Local Government contract or a contract with a major contractor, you will be asked to provide proof that you have a health and safety system (this usually means a written policy and supporting documentation) and a corner stone of your system is access to competent assistance.

Remove the aggravation by choosing one of the following:

Gold - Competent Person Service: £115.00p/m + VAT

(based on a monthly standing order for a 12 month contract = £1,380.00 + VAT)

• A Health and Safety Policy review.
• 2 flexible office/site visits throughout the year to produce a detailed status report.
• 40 Hours throughout the year (flexible),
• Designate JPL Health and Safety Solutions as your external Competent Person.
• Unlimited health and safety advice via telephone & email *
• Regular newsletter's providing legal updates.
• Assist with Pre-qualification questionnaires.
• An annual review of your Policies and Procedures.

Silver - Competent Person Service: £85.00p/m + VAT

(based on a monthly standing order for a 12 month contract = £1,020.00 + VAT)

• 16 Hours throughout the year (flexible),
• Designate JPL Health and Safety Solutions as your external resource for Health and Safety Advice e.g. on your company literature, pre-qualification questionnaires etc.
• Unlimited health and safety advice via telephone & email *

Bronze – Assistance Support Service: £40.00p/m + VAT

(based on a monthly standing order for a 12 month contract = £480.00 + VAT)

• 8 Hours throughout the year (flexible),
• Unlimited health and safety advice via telephone & email *

* support is restricted to advice only. Enquiries leading to more than 30 minutes of work by JPL Health and Safety Solutions will be invoiced accordingly at an agreed rate.

Examples of services that can be included in the flexible hours (Competent Person Service) are:

• Health and safety policy development (for as little as £400.00 + VAT)
Review and update of all of your Health and Safety system Risk assessments, COSHH, DSE, manual handling and fire risk assessments etc Accident investigation and accident reporting Health and safety training Annual H&S report Legal updates Scheduled site visits and inspections (excluding mileage costs) Help with responding to Tender/ Customer compliance issues. Assistance with pre-qualification questionnaires.
• Assistance with CHAS and Construction applications

If additional support is required over the agreed number of hours included within the annual Competent Person Service options above, additional day & hourly rates will apply. We hope that you find our rates very competitive. We are able to offer these rates due to the fact we are a small, family run, professional firm and do not carry the overheads that some other larger firms bear. We are also able to offer enhanced customer service as a result of this.

Hourly Rate: £24.00 + VAT

Day Rate: £185.00 + VAT

Mileage: £0.45p for every mile beyond 20 miles from WR11 4HJ

Contact information: www.jpl-healthandsafety.co.uk or Call: 07599 032 408

Risk Assessment

When you are looking to improve your health and safety procedures consider using health and safety advisors. You will want an experienced firm of health and safety advisors to come in and audit your current procedures and risk assessments. Here at JPL Health and Safety Solutions we can help you with all of your requirements when it comes to Health and Safety.

We aim to take a sensible and realistic approach to Health & Safety. All too often companies are told what they cannot do. Our consultants take a pragmatic approach, so can help and advise you how to work within the Regulations; whatever your work sector.

Our Consultants have knowledge and experience across a broad range of working environments, including construction.

The following are examples of the areas that we can help you with

• Health & Safety Policy Development as required by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
• Pre-Construction Information Health & Safety Plans
• Construction Phase Health & Safety Plans
• Control of Contractors Policy
• Development of Health & Safety Files
• Audits, surveys and Site/Plant Inspections with advice and support
• Asbestos surveys and management
• Risk Assessments, including General/work, Fire, Work at Height, Display Screen Equipment, Work Equipment, Lone Working and Personal Protective Equipment
• Manual Handling Assessment
• COSHH Risk Assessment
• Work Risk Assessment
• Method Statements
• Development of Safe Working Practices
• Development of Safe Operating Procedures
• Accident Investigation and reports
• Toolbox Talks
• Competent Person Representation, which is a requirement of the Management of Health and Safety Work Regulations 1999, the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007 and CHAS
• Training Programmes
• Development of Complete Safety Management Systems
• Site Waste Management Planning