A risk assessment is the overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk. In terms of construction this would involve our health and safety consultants assessing the activities you undertake e.g. work at height, lifting building materials, use of plant and equipment, and ensuring suitable and practical control measures are implemented that both reduce the risks to your employees and others, and allow you to complete the job in hand with minimum disruption.

Method statements are a further extension of a risk assessment and are a step-by-step plan of how you intend to complete a specified piece of work; whilst also considering the risks throughout all elements of the job. Method statements were initially designed for high-risk activities that had to be completed in a periodic manner with designated safety measures in place, however it has now become commonplace for sub-contractors to supply them to principal contractors or organisations they are working for as part of their health and safety due diligence procedures.

Our health and safety consultants can devise a program of planned site inspections to be undertaken over the duration of the project to help contractors ensure that site procedures and safety measures are being suitably followed and the organisation remains legally compliant.

If you need help to get on the CHAS, Safe Contractor, EXOR or other similar pre vetting health and safety schemes then our health and safety consultants can take you through the entire process.