Safety Training and Consultancy Services

Health & Safety Consultancy Services For SMEs

As a Business Owner or Manager you may be concerned about safety risks in terms of lost days, higher insurance costs, lost reputation or even falling foul of the law. We specialise in supporting businesses with their safety needs, ensuring that they meet the legal and moral requirements placed on you.

We have developed a capacity building system that allows businesses to build health and safety competence from within their company. We work alongside their staff, supporting them at all levels. Our specialist consultants are supporting food and manufacturing concerns at the highest levels.

Many businesses approach STCS because they have been invited to tender for work or to provide a service to a large corporate organisation or local council. We are able to offer a bespoke service in this matter and assist you in completing the relevant sections of the documentation.

Our consultants are highly trained, hold professional membership of the appropriate institutes and are experienced in all sectors. We offer a bespoke professional friendly service with a common sense approach and that is tailored to yours and your business needs.

Every business is different and with this in mind we offer a free consultation and assessment to establish your business requirements and provide you with an initial report.

Following our first consultation we will also be in a position to offer you a Service Level Agreement and a quote. In most cases and depending on your safety needs we have found that the following model works:

Free Consultation

At our first meeting we will consider your existing or proposed health & safety policy, risk assessments and safety management arrangements, method statements, staff safety training etc.

This allows us to highlight areas that may require particular or immediate attention. Please note that we will do this with you, allowing you access to every aspect of the process.

Inspection & Report

We will undertake an initial safety tour of your premises and provide you with a written report of good and poor practice. This is used as a baseline indicator to measure the effectiveness of our service at quarterly intervals. You will receive a written report supported by a photographic record of our findings.

We will also undertake a formal audit of your safety management documentation and if required provide you with a complete portfolio of template documents that can be the basis of your future safety management and evidence based files.

Working with you

At this point we will have a good understanding of your business activities and we will be in a position to plan our actions with you.

Undertaking Risk Assessments/Safe Procedures & the Safety Folder.

We will write these policies on your behalf and provide you with a comprehensive Safety File including Safety Management Procedures that cover all the necessary actions and forms required to ensure that you meet the statutory requirements placed on you.

Delivery of staff training

Having identified your staff training needs, we will deliver the training at your premises where this is possible. To ensure flexibility we also have distance learning or eLearning training in most subjects to meet our needs.

Visits & Monitoring

We will undertake an agreed number of visits to your premises as required The intention of these visits is to meet with you and monitor the arrangements put in place and inspect your workplace. You will be provided with a written report on each occasion. Areas of good and poor practice will be highlighted and any hazards/risks will be assessed and documented.

Evidence & Administration

All of the above will be documented; we will provide you with a safety file in both paper and digital formats and will ensure that all actions, training and inspections are evidenced.

Food Hygiene Consultancy

Safety Training and Consultancy Services is an appropriative training and development partner across a diverse range of companies, from micro businesses to corporate organisations; the current Managing Director of STCS Paul Bell has over twenty five years management experience in the food industry, in particular in the processing sector.

Having worked in the food industry in senior positions in Technical, Production and Operations roles give me the relevant experience to focus STCS resources to work in a collaborative manner with clients to provide realistic and cost effective solutions.

Food Consultancy

Safety Training and Consultancy takes a holistic view of providing food company clients with the provision of sustainable training which is focused on both the continuous development of the business and equally the development of the individual.

Quite often when we undertake a Training Needs Analysis of a company we find that the training no matter how good is not appropriate for that business, and has been sold as a quick fix in reaction to a code of practise change or the take up of government sponsored training incentive; this often creates a solution at the expense of creating several more!

Safety Training and Consultancy Services can offer training from the induction of those employees new to the food sectors and at the other end of the spectrum the training that allows Directors and senior managers even greater insight into their role of corporate governance.

In addition to being approved training providers for organisations such as the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health ( CIEH ) and the Royal Institute for Public Health ( RIPH ), STCS also provide consultancy services across a broad range of areas such as; Food Management Systems, Occupational Health and Safety, Food Safety and Food Hygiene, Environmental Management to list but a few.

Food Consultancy

We understand the physical and financial demands that food companies are faced with and that reduced profits affecting almost all food sectors do not allow for large training budgets, Safety Training and Consultancy can provide a multi solution approach to such conditions and can if required in addition to training provide a managed interim development infrastructure allowing your business to operate with the minimum of disruption to the working day.

Management Consultancy

We believe a strong synergy exists between consultancy and business development, and that our services can be used in a number of ways; as part of a continuous improvement plan, an integral part of managed projects, a facet of a nominated competent person scheme to name but a few.

Consultancy must be bespoke to the business; at Safety Training and Consultancy Services (STCS ) the first stage of arriving at a consultancy package apt to the client is to undertake an initial audit or health check of the situation.

From this we are then able to produce the client a formal report detailing any failings, and more importantly suggested routes for improvement.

Consultancy can take several forms dependent on factors such as the type and size of a company, the desired outcome and not least of all, the subject in question. One route of consultancy offered by STCS is Training Needs Analysis,

Training Needs Analysis (TNA)

Businesses of all sizes perform best when the people within the business carry out their roles efficiently and effectively; people can only operate at this business premium level if they are well trained. Many businesses are aware of the financial cost and loss of credibility from too little or inappropriate training; one solution we offer is to undertake a thorough and systematic diagnostic of your training needs. Our focus is to provide training for real improvement; all too often training programs are undertaken by companies because of offers or due to an authority deciding what training is good for a particular industry.

We follow a proven route for TNA which allows our clients to have a transparent view of the situation.

Dependent upon the situation a simple Training Needs Analysis can be undertaken over the telephone, a more complex TNA may take the form of an in house diagnostic project. Training however is not always the solution to the needs of a business or a particular situation; our consultants frequently undertake diagnostics and audits to provide the client with a report that indicates specific failings and suggested solutions.

In support of our own expert advisors and consultants STCS is also the centre of a technical hub made up of a number of retained associates and technical consultants from a diversity of specialist areas. The use of this technical hub allows STCS to provide cost effective solutions across a wide range of business applications including :-

• Specialist Occupational Safety and Health
• Food Safety and Food Hygiene Audits
• HACCP auditing and development
• British Retail Consortium (BRC) pre-audits and systems Development

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