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Specialist Consultancy<\/h1>\n\t

Two areas we worked heavily in is environmental management (ISO 14001) and occupational health and safety management (ISO 45001).<\/h4>\n\t

Awareness Training Sessions<\/h2>\n\t

In both cases we have a wealth of tools, documents, procedures etc. our clients use to manage environmental and health & safety. However, sometimes there is insufficient expert knowledge either within Episode or the client to address the area to the depth needed. For example, one of our clients needs to substantially alter the licence they have from the Environment Agency, and in this case it is a complex and potentially costly exercise to get wrong, so a specialist in this field has been brought in.<\/p>\n

We have partnerships with two consultancies that are subject-matter experts:<\/p>\n

As experts in ISO based management systems we regularly work with clients on occupational health and safety management systems. As a result, we do have a lot of experience in general health and safety issues.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\n\t

Occupational health and safety<\/h2>\n\t

As a result of our clients wanting one provider to deliver all of their health and safety management needs, we spent quite some time finding the right partner to be able to do this. We have found an excellent Yorkshire based consultancy that has the same pragmatic, real-world based approach to health and safety management. We have jointly designed a comprehensive yet light-touch health and safety framework that ensures you have the bases covered.<\/p>\n\t

Legal responsibilities<\/h3>\n\t

Health and safety is, rightly, highly regulated.<\/p>\n

Any employer, regardless of the number of employees, have to comply with the requirements laid out in the legislation.<\/p>\n

So, we have Libryo as a platform to deal with that for you – Libryo home page<\/a><\/u> . This is a powerful tool, designed by a consultancy (Standards and Legal – Home page<\/a><\/u> ) that has over 25 years of experience in supporting clients on health and safety, Environment and Social Governance (\u201cESG\u201d) matters. Built and maintained by fully qualified lawyers, you get definitive details of the rules and regulations that apply to your whole organisation, down to a site by site basis. The legislation is presented in plain English so you don\u2019t have to be a lawyer to understand it. There are even web chat facilities to speak live with Libryo lawyers who can help you when you get stuck.<\/p>\n\t

Competent person<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s fine, but what do you do then about meeting those requirements and continually improving your performance? For this you need a team that helps with the system management side of things (Episode) and<\/strong> specialist health and safety experts.<\/p>\n

If you have 5 or more employees, you must have a documented health and safety management system (Episode\u2019s area of expertise) you must have a \u201ccompetent person\u201d appointed to manage your health and safety.<\/p>\n

Episode\u2019s associate partners are such safety experts. Based in Yorkshire they have a national footprint, and they ensure that our clients are fully supported with their Health and Safety and Employment Law needs by providing user friendly systems, personal contact, and proactive advice. Their expert assistance is at your disposal whenever you need it.<\/p>\n\t

Health and safety audits<\/h3>\n

Health and safety audits are an important tool in benchmarking companies compliance with current legislation related to health and safety at work. It is a critical, in-depth examination of an organisation\u2019s health and safety management system. Where we feel that between us we haven\u2019t got the skills to audit health & safety, we turn to our partner for input.<\/p>\n

Their audits are always undertaken by an experienced qualified health and safety consultant, and this can be provided as a one-off \u2018stand alone\u2019 service, but it is normally carried out for our clients at commencement of the support service in order to provide a clear picture of an organisations performance in terms of health and safety management. As a result, remedial actions can be taken before incidents occur. Once the audit has been completed we\u2019ll then submit a report outlining the findings with our recommendations of any actions required \u2013 helping to form your health & safety plan.<\/p>\n

We are here to work with you every step of the way, and so any deficiencies we do identify during the audit will always been fully discussed and actions agreed every time \u2013 thereby ensuring there are never any nasty surprises.<\/p>\n\t

Risk assessments<\/h3>\n\t

Risk assessments are important as they are a tool to identify areas within your business where employees, visitors and contractors could potentially come to harm.<\/p>\n

All businesses with 5 or more employees are legally obligated to carry out risk assessments.\u00a0Our \u00a0consultants are here to guide you through this process. \u00a0By using our user friendly risk assessment formats, that have been designed in conjunction with clients, we can help you create the risk assessments relevant for your business.<\/p>\n

Our risk assessment formats include:<\/p>\n

Premises\/Sites<\/p>\n