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Health & Safety In Care Homes

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Business Safety Solutions are your reliable and trusted health and safety consultants in Chester that provide dedicated health and safety in care homes. Our main services for care homes include health and safety policies, fire risk assessments, and health and safety audits. When it comes to providing health and safety services for care homes, Business Safety Solutions provide a sensitive and sensible approach as we are aware that vulnerable people are at greater risk of injury, slips, and falls.

Our approach is far from a ”box-ticking exercise” and we provide bespoke action plans and systems that fit your residential care home. Business Safety Solutions aim is to formulate a strategy that suits your business, meets legal compliance and frees up your time to focus on the business.

Healthcare and specifically care homes are one of the most monitored and audited business sectors which is largely due the vulnerable nature of the people that it seeks to help. Business Safety Solutions understands and empathises with busy care managers that have a lot to handle on a daily basis.

This is why we offer a fully outsourced health and safety service for care homes that ensures you are maximising safety for the vulnerable and also complying with the latest health and safety legislations.

If you’re looking for dedicated health and safety consultants in Chester or the surrounding areas for your residential care homes, we would love to hear from you today. We offer a FREE no-obligation consultation which you can book with us today on 01244 455277 or use our contact form and we’ll get back to you.

Care Home Health & Safety Services

health and safety for care homes

Business Safety Solutions provide a wide range of health and safety services for residential care homes to ensure full compliance. Services that we offer include the following;-

Health & Safety Policies

In line with Health and Safety At Work Act 1974, all residential care homes and businesses are legally-obligated to have a health and safety policy written and in place if you have 5 employees or more. Essentially, a health and safety policy is your commitment towards health and safety. Clear and realistic aims and objectives should be outlined in a typical H&S policy.

For example, for residential care homes, aims may include to regularly review the health and safety policy to check if it can be further improved for the safety of the vulnerable tenants. The organisation of health and safety within your care home is the second part of the document which will outline who’s responsible for specific health and safety roles. Finally, the last part of the document will cover health and safety arrangements. This part is where you get more specific on your systems, approach, and procedures.

Health & Safety Audits

Here at Business Safety Solutions, we also provide health and safety audits for residential care homes. If you’ve neglected health and safety procedures for a sustained period of time or you’ve put it on the back-burner, BSS offer health and safety audits to ensure that your care home is fully compliant with current health and safety regulations, as well as assessing how well you’re following processes and analysing current performance. A typical H&S audit will be audited as follows; Management Team Competence, Frequency Of Safety Checks, System For Reporting Hazards, and analysing the current Fire Risk Assessment.

Fire Risk Assessments

Fire risk assessments are ultimately the responsibility of the property owner. A fire risk assessment is a legal obligation for all non-domestic properties, including care homes, and failure to comply will result in heavy prosecution and fines. Fortunately, Business Safety Solutions are here to offer comprehensive fire risk assessments to keep employees, visitors, and residents safe. A typical fire risk assessment is conducted as follows;-

•Identify potential risks and hazards throughout the property where fire risks many be prevalent.
•Decide who could be harmed and how. Also who is at the most risk currently.
•Reduce these risks to a level that is as low as possible.
•Evaluate the safety precautions that need to be put in place and implement.

Contact Us Today

For more information regarding our health and safety services for care homes, get in touch with us today on 01244 455277, or use our contact form and we’ll get back to you.

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Gary came to my Osteopathic CPD group on 10th October 2020 on a zoom seminar. This was to give us reassurance of the health and safety procedures we have put in place for Covid 19. Gary readily and kindly agreed, giving an excellent well prepared presentation and easily with expert knowledge answered all our questions. I also found it very reassuring and helpful as he showed the dentistry and physiotherapy risk assessments he had implemented . The presentation helped to give confidence and reassurance to myself and osteopathic colleagues, that we have implemented the correct procedures of health and safety with full PPE and professional duty of care. Also Gary has been to my practice and brought all my professional policies of duty up to date. Fire Safety, Risk assessment, pathways for my practitioner team due to Covid. What a relief to have all this help and support, so all is professionally and expertly documented to give me peace of mind so I can concentrate on my work. Thank you so much and I will certainly recommend you most Highly.
Suzette Pulman
Suzette PulmanLymm Osteopathic Practice
"Gary was instrumental in installing a CAN DO ATTITUDE, which he instilled into me (which I thought nobody could ever do). He never planned to fail and was very hands on with every task. His health and safety knowledge was unbelievable"
Pyranha Mouldings
Pyranha Mouldings Production Supervisor
“Gary’s strength was his communication skills … his ability to recognise people’s strengths and weaknesses and work with them to improve. Gary is a man with a massive drive to improve and maximise the potential in all situations with an unparalleled knowledge of management skills and above all health and safety in the work place.”
Viridor WEEE St Helens
Viridor WEEE St Helens Production Supervisor
“Working in a heavily pressurised environment to tight deadlines, Gary produced results and proved himself as a highly effective communicator, providing the guidance and direction needed in an environment that was subject to regular changes. He would maintain a calm, professional demeanour demonstrating dedication to the cause, while maintaining effective and clear lines of interaction with all”
Matt Nikcevich
Matt NikcevichCustomer Sales Manager
“Gary has proven to be extremely trustworthy, tenacious, able to build relationships at all levels and is always willing to go the extra mile and support everyone. He is driven to achieve deadlines and targets, while making significant improvements within a business.”
Centriforce Limited
Centriforce LimitedHealth & Safety Manager
“I became aware of Gary when he was being assessed for two Wamitab qualifications of Level 4 (High Risk Operator Competence for Managing Transfer of Hazardous Waste) and (High Risk Operator Competence for Managing Physical and Chemical Treatment of Hazardous Waste). His Assessor drew my attention to him and suggested that he would make a good assessor. I took an interest in his portfolio and found it to be well above average. I would be pleased to have Gary as an assessor through adversity he maintained a dignified attitude. His personal qualities included having a calm demeanour, good communicative skills and traditional values.”
Action Resource Management
Action Resource ManagementDirector
“Gary came across as calm and logical with good operations experience and a good knowledge of modern management practices, Gary demonstrated a high level of professionalism at all times” “He introduced many systems which were designed to improve safety, training, operating costs and yields and as a result there was a notable progression in all aspects of operations, maintenance, yard, health & safety” “He put great importance on man management through personal interaction, meetings, targets and coaching to strive to achieve the many improvements he did.”
Viridor Waste Management (WEEE)
Viridor Waste Management (WEEE)Head of Recycling (WEEE)
"As a small business, it can be hard to find a trusted partner for H&S. The safety of our team is paramount, though spiralling costs were a concern. Gary perfectly understood the reality of being an SME and tailored and delivered a H&S package and Covid-19 audit, that fitted perfectly in our organisation (and our budget), with a sensible and effective approach."
The Goodlife Outdoor CompanyManaging Director
Our business has faced many new challenges due to the Covid-19 situation. With ever changing guidelines and with such important things at stake, we needed help and assurances that we were doing everything we needed to do as an employer to protect staff and protect the business. BSS performed a workplace audit for us and also provided so much useful information and resources to assist the business with our new fluid workforce requirement. After spending time with us in the office, BSS sent us a comprehensive action plan that we used to make our place of work safe. Gary’s clearly an experienced professional as his delivery method made it easy for us to understand a situation that’s previously done nothing but confuse us. We now have confidence that we have done what is required and we have shown that we are a responsible employer which is so important for us. The process was very efficient and all the paperwork arrived within days, as promised by BSS. We highly recommend BSS to all small businesses who want peace of mind about the safety of their offices and home working for staff.
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