Competent Person

Competent Person Services

Chester & The North Of England

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Competent Person Services

If you are an employer, it’s highly likely that you have come across the term ‘competent person’ but why it is important and why do you need one? 

A competent person is a person within an organisation that is appointed to help the business comply with the latest health and safety legislations and therefore help to take all reasonable steps to keep employees from harm.

Get in touch to discuss your competent person requirements

Choosing the most appropriate competent person should be carefully considered and not rushed. Every organisation must appoint a competent person and failure to do could result in prosecutions and fines. 

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Here at Business Safety Solutions, we offer the latest health and safety training and can help to appoint a competent person within your organisation based on the following;-

  • Relevant training.
  • Skills and technical ability.
  • Practical experience.
  • Familiarity with organisation.
  • Authority of individual.
  • Applicable knowledge.

Choosing a competent person for your organisation is far more than just ticking a box. To ensure that you have got this role covered, experience, training and applicable knowledge may have to be gained beforehand to ensure a quality appointment. 


What Is The Role Of A Competent Person?

It is a legal requirement for employers to comply with all latest and relevant health and safety laws. The role of a competent person is to utilise their knowledge, experience and skills to help you comply with all relevant regulations and to ultimately ensure that all workers, visitors and customers are safe as a result of workplace activities that happens on-site or in the office. 

The appointed competent person must be able to identify existing and predictable hazards in the workplace environment and have the authorisation to implement health and safety procedures to keep all stakeholders in the business.

How Can Business Safety Solutions Help?

If you are unsure about the appointment of an in-house health and safety person, you may want to consider appointing external health and safety professionals such as Business Safety Solutions. 

We are able to provide tailored health and safety guidance and support as your competent advisors. We truly provide a flexible approach to modern health and safety requirements for your business and we will ensure that you have the correct systems and standards in place to best look after all stakeholders and avoid potential legal pitfalls. 

BSS will first to get to know the ins and out of your business before providing a bespoke competent person package that you’re satisfied with. For Business Safety Solutions to be named the health and safety advisor for your company, we offer an annual retainer service. 


In summary, we believe that our approach brings the following benefits to our clients:

Support

  • A sense that the safety process is proceeding as planned and that they don’t need to worry
  • Time and space to continue to run their businesses
  • A clear idea of what should be happening and by when
  • Honest, uncomplicated and timely advice when key decisions need to be taken not just a list of options
  • A confidence that any problems encountered during the process will be overcome

Other Advice & Support

  • The feeling we really do understand your business and your issues and therefore the advice they are getting is valuable
  • Clear solutions to your issues and how they are going to implement them, and a realistic idea of the timescales
  • Knowing that any practical support in implementing solutions will be delivered against agreed deadlines

Get in touch to discuss your competent person requirements

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Recent testimonials

R

Gary from business safety solutions has just completed all my health and safety paper work and assessments to make my business fully compliant .he was very professional and gave me good quality advice at a competitive price would highly recommend.

Rob
M

We wanted to review our Health & Safety and needed a personal touch, Gary from BSS was the answer, he very quickly became our dedicated HSE advisor.

We needed a 100% fit for purpose solution that specialised in our trade (not an off the shelf purchase). Gary quickly understood our needs and work began. So happy we have given Gary a 2 year rolling contract. A great asset to any business.

M&P Enterprises LtdManaging Director
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Dear Gary  

I cannot thank you enough for the Fire Risk Assessment completed at Didsbury a few  weeks ago, your report was presented in a fashion that anyone could read and no  jargon.  

The images and the content showed the client what was wrong and how it could be  rectified using the report content.

This report was also submitted to the local housing  authority, whereupon your details will be shared to HMO Landlords alike for future  reference. 

I am extremely proud to call you a business partner in what YIOP LTD do for property  management, looking forward to using you again and I will not hesitate to refer all  your services to any client that needs it. 

Once again Thank You

Neil-Street BaileyManaging DirectorYour Investment Our Priority Ltd
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Gary was recommended to us when I reached out for an efficient Health & Safety officer to conduct multiple fire risk assessments to keep our business compliment.

I found Gary to be approachable, open and honest and on top of this, he over-delivered. Gary conducted all our risk assessments in a timely manner and had the reports back to us within 24 hours.

If you’re looking for a reliable Health and Safety expert, I’d highly recommend you call Gary in the first instance. He is now our Health & Safety go to guy.

Mike CorbridgeDiverse
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BSS helped my osteopathic practice with specific reassurance of implementing PPE for patient and practitioner safety during the Corona Virus 19 pandemic. Plus all health and safety auditing of my osteopathic practice . Gary also looks after me and makes aware of any changes that need to be made due to change in legislation. To which I’m very grateful for.

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Gary Durnal of BSS. I can highly recommend.

Suzette PulmanLymm Osteopathic Practice
M

Highly recommend BSS. very professional and the knowledge of health and safety was unbelievable.

Micky Kelly
J

Gary Durnall was introduced to me through a friend and what a find he is – especially through Covid he has assisted with the overall Health and Safety for the business but has been brilliant assisting me with keeping our staff safe during the pandemic – i cannot praise him enough!

Jane ChewinsJCL Insurance Brokers
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Here at Titan Electrical we have been using Gary for our health and safety needs for the past 6 months.

We previously used a company who gave us a 147-page H&S manual which was not specific to us, Gary has reduced this significantly and made it specific to us.

The previous company never came to our office premises to check our procedures and signage if any. Once on board the first thing Gary did was visit us and get procedures in place and to display all the relevant documents.

Gary makes bespoke health and safety packages to suit your company plus gives you full support and back up.

So, with all that said I would not hesitate to refer Gary on to companies who would make use of his great services.

Russ ChadwickDirectorTitan Electrical